20/10/2008 10:04. The world's most winsome car accessory? No arguments about this, I would suggest. It's the circular metal stencil of a flower that you can get to fit over the brake lights of a VW Beetle. (This is not an official VW accessory, I should stress. You get them from independent car-trimmers and Beetle fan sites.) Once in place, this unique device ensures that your braking action appears to the car behind you not as a solid warning light, but as a display of loveable red petals.

It's the winner, no? At any rate, it's hard to think how you could get your car to be more cuddly, short of actually re-moulding its entire body in the shape of Snoopy.

True, as another road user, it might be scant consolation to you that the last thing you saw, as you hurtled helplessly towards a sudden build-up of... // Times Online