To showcase the damage modelling to its full effect, you could even torture your car by driving it through a working car crusher.

The technology demo pitted you in a banger racer with free reign to explore an open vehicular playground, smashing into AI opponents in a destruction derby-esque environment or playing with the various tools of destruction dotted around the map to test the damage modelling. And judging from the release of the playable sneak peek technology demo, it looks as if they will succeed.

BugBear is hoping to revoltionise our perceptions of vehicle damage in Next Car Game with its soft body deformation system that allows you to bend, buckle and dismember your car beyond recognition.