So, how many people can you squeeze into a Volkswagen Up!? Sixteen, it seems, in what is the first try with the 3.54-metre long and 1.64-metre wide car. The folks at Volkswagen Communications recently made the attempt, partly for a giggle and partly to show how small can be big, presumably.
The feat eventually saw 16 people, in this case 15 women and a man, finding their way into the car – two in the boot, one on the dashboard, seven on the rear bench, four on the front seats, and two in the footwells, before the boot lid and doors were shut and the windows were closed.
It’s a bit short of that achieved with the original Beetle. At a car meet in Australia, 17 Beetle friends spontaneously decided to squeeze into the Volkswagen icon. Then, in 2010, 20 people – who obviously had extremely high levels of pain tolerance – raised the bar with a record in Wilmore, Kentucky, which landed them in the Guinness World Records.
Naturally, attempts were also made in the successor model. In January 2001, a record 27 students in the US squeezed their way into a New Beetle. You can expect that some adventurous lot will probably try to better the Up! numbers when it makes its market debut next year. The things people do to pass time, indeed.
Anthony Lim believes that nothing is better than a good smoke and a car with character, with good handling aspects being top of the prize heap. Having spent more than a decade and a half with an English tabloid daily never being able to grasp the meaning of brevity or being succinct, he wags his tail furiously at the idea of waffling - in greater detail - about cars and all their intrinsic peculiarities here.
live in india n you’ll be surprised
No need India. Once upon a time in KL “Bas Mini”. Or recently morning rush in LRT.
Really “stupid” experiment….like sandwich…………..
If memory serves me right; a Ford TX3 high speed crash somewhere in Pahang area a few years ago with 13 illegal immigrants inside while being transported by tekong darat. Now, that’s an even greater record than a stationary car with petite sardines.
Let me correct u. Accident at km97 West bound on LPT. 17 died on d spot in Nazaria. Midnite. Hit bontot lori.
They need to go to India and learn a few lesson on optimization. http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynamic/00027/DE24-P3-DC-BSF_27177f.jpg
kalau awek cun mcm nie squeeze sampai 20 org aku sanggup….
This is not cun this is ugly, you said that because you never be there if you be there you never understand to evaluate them.
They are obviously just smiling for the camera….
I mean that can’t be comfortable ….
lucky man!!!
Yeah!! 1 lucky dude..
This is in Germany with girls average high of 5′ 6″ and 55 kg. The record should put in the total no and total weight of the participants, just like lift capacity say 650kg or 11 person.
Say 16 person x 55 kg = 880 kg, if the same fete is conducted say in Vietnam and choose all the smallest size average 4’10″ and 40 kg, then the same weight of 880 kg might be work out to be around 22 person.
someone must lock those doors and give a long fart…
That’s the up and coming ‘Volkswagen Gas Chamber’
16 people? if squeeze that amount of adults into the car and drive in kuching area, the 5 years warranty sure not tahan ganti… ha ha ha…
Beats some Malaysians LOL…
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But that’s illegal
Reminds me of the Milo advert.
no point proving this kind of facts..
will ur family members willing to lie on the dashboard while on the way from PG to KL?…
ridiculous…>.<'''
In real life do you even squeeze that many people inside a car?, another lame marketing ploy.
hahahahaahaha….
u reply here, only to show us u r laughing?
weeee~
haha
nice ad
but serious in india people do much much better
they even seat – in large numbers – on the locomotive head.
now bring on india
wooo, glasses long hair chic is super kute <3
cheap publicity, why no basher say that?
First picture at the most back left side kinna cute girl
the guy must be very happy! can raba to the max!
16? As in one six? More like the score of last nite’s match between MC & MU!!! Kahkahkah!!!
So what ? This is a five seater !
Back in 2003, Inticollege Subang Jaya Malaysia managed to squeeze 23 ppl on board a Kancil (19 college students and 4 staffs)
Source: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-82783171.html
any idea how small is the kancil cabin? lol…
kalau one of them kentut…
well guys, we have done this before but with a bigger car..check it out..
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=m6ktAAAAIBAJ&sjid=fHgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4157%2C1119610
VW want to show his new Car similar to Milo Tin or Sardine Can? Why not put water also and people swimming inside. Stupid Marketing. If so.. later propose P2 take out the Viva put 16.5 people inside. haha. Malaysia can win them later.
VW could had packed 17 into the up! – if all participants weren’t wearing clothes. The malice of poking sticks might pose a problem for some, though. ;p