45 Awesome and Amazing Cars Facts | 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.
- Amazing fact is that steering wheels were not equipped on the first cars made. Drivers used a lever to steer.
- In 1895 Hampshire police handed out the first ever speeding ticket , fining a man for amazing 6 Miles per hour.
- Amazing fact is that the average car has 30,000 parts.
- Amazingly 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 course of 20 miles. Winner had speed of 7.5 miles per hour.
- The first traffic lights were installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.
- Amazing fact is that Bentley the luxury car company was founded in 1919 but it produced only 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. 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 automobile.
- Amazingly a car traveling at 80km/h uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- Amazing fact is that 92% of all new sold cars in Brazil use ethanol as fuel, which is produced from sugar cane.
- Most American Car horns sound at the key of F .
- The fact is that cars are one of the most dangerous mode of transport . 1 million people die each year due to accidents.
- At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much down force that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
- Amazing fact is that 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 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 amazing 4500 mph when deployed. It takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.
- Amazingly 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.
- Bentley takes amazing 15 hours to create one steering wheel as the process of creation is too complicated for a machine.
- Amazingly Ferrari only builds 14 cars each day.
- 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 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’.
- It’s amazing that 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!
- Amazing fact is that one gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
- Amazingly no matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
- The longest track ever used for F1 is Pescara in Italy, at 24.7km.
- 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.
- Amazingly there are 40,000 New York City cab drivers, who collectively drive more than a million miles each day.
- The world’s largest traffic jam was amazing 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.
- Amazing fact is that engine on the BMW M5 is so quiet that the company plays fake engine noises through the speakers to let driver know it is running.
- License plates in the Canadian North West territories used to be shaped like polar bear.
- Lamborghini cars were the result of a tractor company owner insulted by the founder of Ferrari.
- Amazingly BMW had to recall their original GPS system because male German drivers refused to take directions from female voice.
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