Sales adviser Faye McConnell was almost lost for words after hearing she had won a £13,500 Ford Puma,.

"I was gobsmacked," she declared when the car was delivered to her office at Research Machines at Milton Park near Didcot.

Faye McConnell

Mrs McConnell, 27, of Loyd Road, Didcot, and her husband, Adam, who runs a central heating business, had a second-hand, nine-year-old Vauxhall Calibra with 89,000 miles on the clock - which is now up for sale.

She said: "I have never won anything in my life before - and have never had a new car."

She received the car for clocking up outstanding sales of Canon computer equipment.

The promotion was open to sales staff across the company's nationwide distribution network.

Mrs McConnell's new car is a 1.7 silver-coloured coupe with chrome trim and added extras including air conditioning, alloy wheels, and a CD player, and came with a year's road tax and free insurance.

Runners-up, includingTanya Davey, another sales adviser of Research Machines, won the chance to drive a a variety of high performance cars a circuit run by former Formula 1 driver Jonathan Palmer track in Bedfordshire.

**Picture: Antony Moore