PUT THE BOOT IN, WIN A KIA

Auckland Kia dealership Andrew Simms is running a promotion around the Blues versus Chiefs game at Eden Park tomorrow (Simms is the official vehicle partner of the Blues).

Entrants can win the use of a Kia Seltos LX for 12 months/ 15,000km. But they have to bring their best kicking skills: the winner will have to successfully drop-kick a rugby ball from the 22m line.

Probably more than once . . .

Five finalists have already been selected online. All received a double VIP pass to the game; they now have to front up at Eden Park by 2.15pm for the on-field “boot party” at half-time.

From there it’s a process of elimination: all have to attempt the kick, and those that are successful move on to the next round until only one remains.

Use of a brand-new car for a year is a pretty good prize. But what do you reckon is the most expensive car giveaway? In the US, where everything is bigger, a 2013 episode of television game show

The Price Is Right is still talked about today. A Washington woman won an Audi R8, valued at US$157,000.

Perhaps the cruellest-ever “car” giveaway, an April Fools’ joke in 2001, is also still talked about today. A waitress at a Hooters restaurant in Florida went all-out to win a brand-new “Toyota” offered by her employer, by selling the most beer in a month.

Presumably that offer was made verbally, because when the time came to collect her prize in the restaurant carpark, it turned out to be a “toy Yoda” — you know, of the Star Wars merch variety. She quit her job, sued the company and won.