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"Record breaking Malaysians claim to have set a new world record after 21 students squeezed into a Mini Cooper.

It took just four minutes for the students to pile into the lime green 1999 Cooper, including two wedged into the car's boot.

The car's doors were then shut and the students, from a college in Kuala Lumpur, sweated out the mandatory 20 seconds to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.

"It was hot, stuffy and very uncomfortable, but we had good communication between participants and the organising crew who positioned us," Tiew Lee Shin (20), one of the students, was quoted as saying in the New Straits Times.

The students even repeated their feat for a local television crew that arrived too late to film the original attempt.

"We had already beaten the previous record set by 18 women in Britain in 2000. But we had to do it again for the cameras," one of the event's organisers, Jasween Kaur Mann, was quoted as saying in the Star daily.

Organisers said they followed guidelines from Guinness which required participants to be over 1.5 metres (4 feet 9 inches) in height, but said they chose slightly built students.

"The students' size ranged from the very skinny to average," said Jasween, who added that said video footage of the attempt would be sent off to Guinness for official verification.

Malaysia is no stranger to record-breaking attempts.

The country once claimed the world's tallest building with the Petronas Twin Towers. It also staged the world's biggest sit-down dinner and made its longest spring roll."  

hehe, i know us asians are suppose to be considered smaller than most others, but c'mon is that really necessary.  

h3nry:
hehe, i know us asians are suppose to be considered smaller than most others, but c'mon is that really necessary.

hahahahhahah

Thats like having an unfair advantage, you would be lucky if you could eight of me in a MINI.

I think part of the record process should involve having to go through a drive through, and the driver has to get everyone's order right. maybe through some parallel parking in there too.  

h3nry:
hehe, i know us asians are suppose to be considered smaller than most others, but c'mon is that really necessary.

Stick 21 Samoans in a Mini...now THAT would be a feat