THERE was "monkeying around" when Hyundai Motor UK set its new small car the ultimate wear and tear challenge recently.
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In the first endurance test of its kind in the UK by a car manufacturer, cheeky safari park baboons were let loose on Hyundai's New Generation i30 hatchback.
The car has been specially-designed for families and their 'little monkeys' in the back, with extra strong materials used to build the interior, easy wipe plastics, tough fittings and high quality steel which is produced using steel from at Hyundai's own steel works.
Baboons from Knowsley Safari Park on the outskirts of Liverpool were chosen for their well-known love of tearing park visitors' cars apart, most famously for Manchester United and England striker Wayne Rooney,'s vehicle when he visited the Merseyside attraction last year.
And it was monkey business as usual when Hyundai Motor UK parked one of its New Generation i30s in the baboon enclosure, as it was immediately besieged by dozens of the park's primates.
Ten hours later the car emerged virtually unscathed.
The monkeys simulated the punishment a typical family might subject a car.
