Whilst we don’t tend to do much sheet metal fabrication round our neck of the woods relating to cars and such, we do have the pleasure of having to beat the living daylights out of the odd out-of-shape bus panel that may have pranged a shelter or three. There’s nothing Jasper loves more than to bang merrily away at his bench straightening out a disfigured sharabang door.

But, there appears to be a new form of steel that’s been developed to protect your average car occupant - elastic steel.

The Max Planck Institute for Iron Research and the German Steel Institute have developed a variety of steel that strengthens as it elongates. In the event of a car crash, the steel is ductile enough to absorb impact energy, but remains strong enough to protect occupants.

Called Twinning Induced Plasticity steel, the secret is that the steel passes the deformation energy down its length and to other parts, which also deform. The benefit is that with more area available to share the impact load, there is less that can reach the car’s occupants. The institute mentions using the steel in bumpers and side doors, the most vulnerable areas in a crash.

Besides it providing a safety element to your average driver, this elastic steel could be used pre-production if you’re supplying motors to the likes of Peter Crouch.

Not only do the self-same Innovation Cars lot provide luxury cars to the rich and famous, but, so I’ve been reliably informed by the relative of mine responsible for their online marketing efforts, they’ve managed to score one of only twenty Lamborghini Reventóns currently in the world and are the only place in the UK where you can get your hands on one.

Lamborghini Reventon

So if you’ve got a spare $1,400,000 and you feel the need to buy or lease a Lamborghini Reventon you now know where you can go.

At least you’ll be saving yourself Jasper’s exorbitant panel beating fees should you ever dent the beggar considering it’s made entirely of carbon fiber.