When we drove the new Vauxhall Corsa for the first time at the beginning of October, we became part of a Guinness World Record. Quite a small part admittedly, but a part nonetheless.
Our meanderings became part of the world’s largest ever drawing created by GPS, the work of artist and map maker Jeremy Wood in an unusual Vauxhall-sponsored publicity stunt. He designed the image and put in the vast majority of the graft to create it, driving a total of 9750 miles over 44 days in a 1.0-litre Corsa Ecotec (rather him than us!) to log his position at 264,000 points around the country. The resulting Halloween-themed drawing, pictured here, was revealed this week.
And our bit? While we were bounding around the roads of north Wales in earnest discussion about ride quality and road noise, a GPS receiver on the dashboard was recording our Corsa’s position at intervals and beaming it back to a central computer to create a dot-to-dot drawing of our route.
Together with other journos on the Corsa launch, we were responsible for the bat in north Wales.
And because we turned over two pages in the route book at one point by mistake, we’re probably also responsible for any parts of it that look a bit wonky. Sorry about that.
Read our road test of the new Vauxhall Corsa here.