How many people can you fit into a diminutive smart fortwo?

The answer is 13, following a car cram staged to help celebrate smart's 10th anniversary. UK owners and visitors to the annual smart Destination Brooklands event held at Mercedes-Benz World, in Weybridge, were invited to take up the smart-packing challenge.

With the drivers and passengers of 1200 smarts attending the event there was no shortage of potential participants but the winners proved to be the aptly-named 'smart car-tortionists', a group of body-bending specialists chosen for their gymnastic feats. They included Iona Luvsandorj, semi-finalist in this year's 'Britain's Got Talent' TV series.

With remarkable flexibility, a total of 13 contortionists managed to climb aboard the micro smart which measures just 2.7m long by 1.6m wide.

Said Luvsandorj afterwards: "The interior of the smart is tardis-like and I think we exceeded the crowd’s expectations of how many people we could fit inside it."