Chinese contestants keep their hands on Volkswagen Polo GTI cars during a hand-on-car endurance competition at Super Brand Mall in the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong, Shanghai, China, 30 April 2013. Tang Yuyan is the proud owner of a new car after she managed to keep her hand on the vehicle for more than two days in a Shanghai contest. The Volkswagen Polo GTI, valued at 150, 000 yuan (US$24, 300), cost the 28-year-old woman just a swollen wrist and some strained muscles. She beat another 46 competitors at the contest at a shopping mall in the Pudong New Area which began on Monday (29 April 2013). I just want to go home and sleep, Tang told a local TV news reporter on Wednesday. Qiao Ling, who had been standing with Tang until the very last moment before she was forced to give up, was in tears when she was being interviewed. The competition attracted 200 people and 47 were picked, on the basis of their health, to take part in the marathon. They had to have one hand on the car at all times, apart from a 15-minute break every six hours.
