World Records for Most Persons in a Car

The car and bus cramming records are all subject to the following rules:

• The vehicle must be a standard production model.
• No seats, fitments and such shall be removed.
• All windows, doors, boot and bonnet must be closed on competition.
• The time limit to achieve the record must be no more than 10 minutes.
• The vehicle's engine must be started on completion of the cram.
• The team members must be at least 16 years old.

Because of the vast number of makes of vehicles on the road today, the number of car cramming records in this list should be reduced to a few cars only. If you want to set a record, please prefer to beat a record that is in our list. However, we will expand the list if there are interesting new claims for well-known cars.
(Note: The rules used by Guinness World Records differ from the above rules. In particular, Guinness requires a minimum age of 18 years and no person who is less than 1.525 m [5ft] may participate.]

• Audi 80: 21
• British Leyland Metro: 21, members of the Plymouth Young Wives Association at Davenport (U.K.), on 30 Sept 1982
• British Leyland Mini: 39
• Campervan: 86 students of the Institute of Technology, Carlow, Ireland, 23 April 2009
  
• Citroën 2CV: 21, team in Aschach/Donau (Austria) on 13 June 2009
• Ford Escort Mk. 1: 20, students of the Birmingham University (U.K.), 16 November 1985
• Ford Sierra: 27, students at the University of Nottingham (U.K.), 14 October 1985
• Jaguar XJ6: 42, The Moss Bay Mojorettes in Jacksonville (USA), 26 August 1984
• standard 56-seater London double-decker bus: 354 pupils from Chunet View Middle School, Leeks (U.K.), 15 December 1989
• Maruti: 42, Gira Bagri (India) and his team, 26 February 1995
• Mercedes Benz MBO 405G bus (normal capacity: 144 persons): 438 students of Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore, 3 July 1998
• Mini (original, British Motor Corp.): 21 students in Selangor (Malaysia) on 17 June 2006.
  
• Mini (new design) 25 employees from Beijing Yanbao Auto on 25 May 2010
• Renault Espace: 34 students of the École supérieure de commerce (France), 17 November 1988
• Renault Twingo: 22 Osnabrück Tigers cheerleades at the opening of a Renault selling centre in Osnabrück (Germany) on 5 March 2006
• Skoda Felicia: 28, students of a high school in Brno (Czech Republic), 27 June 1997
• Skoda Octavia: 32, students of a high school in Brno (Czech Republic), 27 June 1997
• Smart: 18 people from Bad Abbach, Oct 2002 [minimum age 15 years only for this category]
• Toyota Tercel 1300: 29, Verkehrskadetten March-Höfe, Pfäffikon (Switzerland)
• Trabant 601 S: 21, Jugendfeuerwehr SG am Dobrock (Germany) 18 May 2008 [minimum age 10 years, not less than 1.525 m tall]
  12 men who are at least 2 m [6 ft 7 in] tall, "Clubs of Tall People" meeting, Torgau (Germany) 30 Sept 2000
• Vauxhall Astra: 21 students from the University of York (UK) in 2006
  
• VW Golf: 30, Raiffeisen Youth Club Langenlois (Austria), 6 November 1983
• New VW Beetle ("new Beetle"): 27, Penn State Abington (EU), 25. 4. 2001