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Supple motor lovers take on Smart car challenge

4:21pm Saturday 21st June 2008

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How many people can you fit into a Smart car?

Sounds like the start of a joke but it was actually a challenge issued to car enthusiasts visiting Mercedes-Benz World today.

Celebrating Smart's 10th anniversary Mercedes-Benz World, Brooklands, Weybridge, called on supple motor lovers to squeeze into a Smart car before a troupe of professional contortionists - or in this case car-tortionists - gave it a go.

Amazingly one group of "amateur" contortionists matched the professional gang - both fitting 13 people inside.

However, the non-professionals were helped by having at least two small children among their numbers.

Among the professionals was Britain's Got Talent star Iona Luvsandorj.

Bendy Iona, who reached the semi-finals of the TV talent show, said: "On behalf of the smart car-tortionists, it's a great opportunity to take part in the smart challenge. The interior of the Smart Fortwo is "TARDIS-like" as shown by its ability to fit 13 people inside.

"It was an innovative challenge and I think we far exceeded the crowd's expectations of how many people could fit inside a Smart."

Watch a video of the event

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judith malone, derby says...
2:07pm Sun 22 Jun 08

Hi my daughter was one of contortionists yesterday and loved it but they all felt they could smash the record and get 17 people in it! also have you any photos that we could have??

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Tim Eastman, Almond, Wisconsin, USA says...
4:54pm Sun 22 Jun 08

That's fine for a record (and fun), but what about reality. How many people will LEGALLY fit (with all seat belts) for driving and how many 200-pound adult men will be comfortable for a 2,000-mile trek.

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Chris, LONDON says...
9:20am Mon 23 Jun 08

Tim, we dont have many 200-pound people in England

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Claire, Bristol says...
12:27pm Mon 23 Jun 08

I was the leader of the contortion team and we could easily have got another 4 or 5 people in the car. This was meant to be a bit of fun and to demonstrate that the Smart has a lot more room than people think and I think this was achieved on the day. Maybe next year they'll get us back with 5 extras to see if we can all get in as we suspect we can.

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ric, kingston says...
10:17am Wed 25 Jun 08

sounds like excuses to me ;)

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Krakatou, Basingstoke says...
10:42am Wed 25 Jun 08

pictures of the event can be found in many of the smart car owners forums. http://www.smartmani

acs.co.uk/forums/for

umdisplay.php?f=100

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