Have you ever driven home with a take-away curry balanced precariously on the passenger seat, praying that you will not have to brake sharply? If so, salvation is at hand.

For all the advances in car design, the age-old problem about where to put your Indian or Chinese take-away, so that it does not spill, has remained unsolved. But now the designers working on the £25,000 Land Rover Discovery have come up with the perfect solution - the "curry-hook".

Located at knee-height in the front passenger area, bags of fast-food goodies can be kept safely away from causing a stink on the carpet and feet.

All the designers need to do now is to find a way of eliminating the smell of a stale vindaloo on the morning after the night before. Now that would be the best thing since sliced naan bread.