The challenge: build a device to crush a car into as small an object as possible.

The might of the US scrappers are coming to test their strength against the best of British in the ultimate contest between winners. But there’s only room for one winner in this game and we’ve got a challenge that’ll test them all to the limit.

Our Yankee doodles and British dandies will each be given a VW Golf. But there's no respect for German engineering on the heap as our teams must crush their cars, changing them into minis. The test is to make their cars as tiny as possible. They need to build very strong car crushers with which they can then pulverise, hammer, squash, squeeze, bend or flatten their cars, but they aren't allowed to remove bits or cut them. When dodgy dealers Cathy and Robert, and their American friend George, turn up with their magic measuring devices, they will judge smallest to be most beautiful in deciding the winner.

Click here for Robert's dramatic interpretation of a car crusher.

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