Reliant Robin the 1970s because of good work executed by Ogle Design, (who had previously designed the Bond Bug, and Reliant Scimitar) and affordable price, considering 70 mpg and 85 mph is possible, and orders increased with the 1970s fuel crisis. The final original version of the Robin rolled off the production line in 1982, and after a number of limited editions, including the GBS and the Jubilee, it was replaced by the restyled Reliant Rialto designed by IAD in Worthing, UK. The vehicle was also produced under licence in Greece by MEBEA between 1974 and 1978, and it was manufactured in
Bond Bug Bug. A Bond Bug was featured in some of the earlier episodes of Hollyoaks as a vehicle belonging to Jambo Bolton. The car has also appeared in the video for the Robbie Williams song "Millennium", and in the 118 advertisements. In series 2 of the television programme "The Grand Tour", presenters Richard Hammond and James May go on to build an amphibious vehicle by combining a Bond Bug with the engine of a personal water craft, nicknaming it the "Pond Bug". Competing on Coniston Water during Coniston Power Boat Records Week, the third presenter, Jeremy Clarkson, operates the "Pond Bug"