Vauxhall says "Altogether now..." for singing driversI'm sure it's the same in every office, but there's a great range of musical taste here at Hoot Car Insurance Services. Only this morning, there was one of those threats where someone says "well, if you insist on playing this tune, I'll put one of mine on next". It looks like it's true in Vauxhall's offices too. The reason I think that is because something must have driven Vauxhall to sponsor a recent survey about music in cars. I reckon they were arguing in an office, when someone mentioned driver's choice, the unbreakable rule of picking music in a car. Probably didn't settle the argument in the office, but did start them thinking about it. Anyway, the survey came out showing that a car's a very good space to listen to music in, as the shape of a car - and particularly Vauxhalls, apparently - means that the echoes work well. It also showed that 87% of drivers in the UK sing along while they drive - that's even more than the eight out of ten cat owners in the famous advert. But perhaps the most interesting note is that most of us sing along despite not being very good - 58% of drivers admitting they couldn't carry a tune. I'm one of them, sadly. Possibly more unfortunate is that I'm not one of the 29% who stop singing when there's someone else in the car. I can't help it, sometimes, there are just some songs that demand to be joined in with, even if I have to apologise in the instrumental. Some of those are obvious - I defy anyone to stay silent during 'Danny Boy', 'Volare' or Dylan's 'I Want You', for example - and that's fine. But I have to refrain from playing the Tiger Lillies in the car as I get the same effect from songs like 'Kick a Baby', which can be embarrassing if people listen to the lyrics and think I mean it. But that's me. I thought I should ask round the office about songs that other people can't resist. They include, in no particular order, Bat out of Hell by Meat Loaf, Power of Love - from a colleague who wanted me to make it very clear that it should be the Huey Lewis one, not Celine Dion or Frankie Goes to Hollywood - and Carmina Burana. I enjoyed one colleague's suggestion of 'Higher State of Consciousness' as something he plays because it's impossible to sing along to, thus keeping him from doing so. He did admit to dancing in his seat a bit, though. Most interesting was rugby boy in the corner coming out with 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun', which wasn't what I expected. One part that Vauxhall probably didn't expect was that the advice from a singing expert - including keeping water in the car, having the seat upright, and keeping your face pointed at the windscreen - was going to tie in neatly with some good safety advice for drivers. But if it's also true that singing while you motor up and down prevents accidents, that makes us insurance types happy too. The better your no claims bonus, the better our quotes can get, and getting a cheap car insurance quote makes you as happy as being able to offer it makes us. This means that I think we should be recommending singing, even though I can't see the underwriters fitting it into the system. It's also admirable that Vauxhall got through their survey, and most of the news reports of it, without mentioning the obvious Madness song. You know the one. If they've managed to keep it out so far, it'll not be me that spoils the record.
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