50 Amazing Facts About Automotives | Amazing Facts 4U
- In 1478 Leonardo da Vinci sketched drawings for a self-propelled vehicle.
- The first working automobiles didn’t come out until the late 1800s.
- Amazingly Vaclav Laurin and Vaclav Klement both Czechs started off with a small bicycle company in the early 1890s later on becoming Skoda.
- In the entire state of Ohio, there were 2 cars on the roads in 1895. Amazingly both cars had an accident colliding with one another.
- In 1895 there were only 4 registered passenger vehicles in the US.
- The amazing fact is that steering wheels were not equipped on the first cars made. Drivers used a lever to steer which was like a joystick.
- In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first-ever speeding ticket, fining a man for doing amazing 6 Miles per hour.
- The term “dashboard” actually comes from the time of horse-drawn carriages. The dashboard was a piece of wood attached to the front of the carriage to keep mud from splattering the driver as the horse galloped.
- Amazingly the average car has 30,000 parts.
- The “new car smell” is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds.
- The first car race in the US took place in 1895 from Chicago to Waukegan, Illinois. Due to snow, only 6 cars started out of 80 entries.
- Only 2 finished a racecourse of 20 miles. The winner had a speed of 7.5 miles per hour.
- The first traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.
- The amazing fact is in 1916, 55 % of the cars in the world were Model T Fords. The record still stands.
- Amazingly Bentley, the luxury car company was founded in 1919 but it produced only an engine and chassis and no complete car for about 27 years.
- Charles Creighton and James Hargis in 1930, drove a Ford Model A roadster from New York City to Los Angeles without stopping the engine once. The two men then promptly drove back to New York, completing the 7,180-mile round-trip in forty-two days. The amazing fact was on both journeys, the car was driven exclusively in reverse.
- A car operates at maximum economy gas wise at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
- A car uses 1.6 ounces of gas idling for 1 minute. Half an ounce is used to start the automobile.
- Amazingly a car traveling at 80km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- The fact is 92% of all newly sold cars in Brazil use ethanol as fuel, which is produced from sugar cane.
- Most American Car horns sound at the key of F.
- Amazingly cars are one of the most dangerous modes of transport. About one million people die each year due to accidents.
- At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much downforce that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
- The fact is 75% of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road today.
- The world’s widest road is the Monumental Axis in Brazil, which has amazingly enough space for 160 cars to drive side by side.
- Amazingly the best-selling car of all time is the Toyota Corolla, which sold a staggering 30 million.
- Airbags move up to 4500 mph when deployed. Amazingly it takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.
- The fact is that the United States has one car for every person including babies!
- The California Department of Motor Vehicles has issued six driver’s licenses to six different people named Jesus Christ.
- Amazingly Bentley takes about 15 hours to create one steering wheel as the process of creation is too complicated for a machine.
- The fact is Ferrari only builds 14 cars each day.
- Toyota is the world’s largest car manufacturer. Every day they produce about 13,000 cars!
- The amazing fact is that the world’s cheapest car is manufactured in India and is called the “Tata Nano” costing $2000.
- The most expensive car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron super sport which is priced at $2,500,000.
- Amazingly Rolls-Royce refused to sell its Phantom IV to anyone other than a member of the Royal Family.
- The longest custom-built car is an amazing 16-wheeled, 60ft (18.3 meters) Cadillac limousine. It features a swimming pool, hot tub, helipad, satellite dish, crystal chandelier, and has ‘ample luggage space’.
- The fact is it is illegal to own a Red car in Shanghai, China.
- The two-foot long bird called a Kea that lives in New Zealand likes to eat the strips of rubber around car windows!
- Amazingly one gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of freshwater!
- The fact is no matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
- The longest track ever used for F1 is Pescara in Italy, at 24.7 km
- In Rallying your blood group must be displayed on your helmet or overalls.
- The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the “General Purpose” vehicle, G.P.
- There are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
- The amazing fact is that the world’s largest traffic jam was 110 miles long, between Paris and Lyon.
- A mid-sized car launched today generates only an estimated 5% of the pollution which was generated by a car from fifty years ago.
- Amazingly engine on the BMW M5 is so quiet that the company plays fake engine noises through the speakers to let the driver know it is running.
- License plates in the Canadian northwest territories used to be shaped like a polar bear.
- The amazing fact is that Lamborghini cars came into existence after a tractor company owner established it after he was insulted by the founder of Ferrari.
- Amazingly BMW had to recall their original GPS system because male German drivers refused to take directions from a female voice.
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