* There are 1 billion cars currently in use on earth, including mine.
* About 165,000 cars are produced every day.
The "new car smell" is composed of over 50 volatile organic compounds. its pretty toxic and harzadous to health.
It would take less than 6 monthsto get to the Moon by car at 60mph (95km/h).
The average car has 30,000parts.
92% of all new sold cars in Brazil
use ethanol as fuel, which is produced from sugar cane.
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Volkswagen owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati and Porsche.
The first car accident occurred in 1891, in Ohio.
When the car radio was introduced, some states wanted to ban it arguing that it could distract drivers and cause accidents. Does your radio distract you?
It is a criminal offence to drive around in a dirty carin Russia.
in Turkmenistan, car drivers are entitled to 120 Liters (31 gal.) of free petrol a month. who wants to relocate with me?
The inventor of the cruise control was blind.
The world's fastest street-legal production car is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, at 267 mph (431 km/h).
In 1941, Henry Fordmade a car out of soybeans.
Most new cars fake engine noisethrough speakers. They are quite silent otherwise. Imagine?
Sweden's Volvo made the three-point seatbelt design patent openand available to other car manufacturers for free, in the interest of safety. It saves one lifeevery 6 minutes. Pls always use your seatbelt ooo!!
95% of a car's lifetime is spent parked. Some people will even kill to buy car. see your life!!
In the early years of the 20th century, horses were causing so much pollutionwith their poop that cars were seen as the "green" alternative. Ok. now we have air pollution and unhealthy emissions. Horse dung is manure naaa!!
It is possible to set up a holiday mealinside a car's engine compartment and drive long enough to fully cook all of the food. For real? no health risks??
35% of the world's population driveson the left side of the road.
The inventor of intermittent windshield wipers tried to sell his idea to the auto industry and was turned away. When they began showing up on new cars, he sued, and won.
Texting while driving increases the chances of a crash by 23 times.
Louis Chevrolet, the founder of Chevrolet, died bankrupt and poor working as a mechanic for the company he started. Wow!!
In 2013, white was the world's most popular car color. I heard it's the cheapest. True?
- An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to deflate.
- Hong Kong is home to the most Rolls Royce’s in the world.
- A car was created that is fueled by cappuccino as an attempt at creating a renewable energy source. The car system converts used coffee grounds to flammable gas. It takes 56 espressos to fuel one mile in the “car-puccino.”
- It takes about 25 hours to build a car, a whopping 10 hours of that 25 is spent painting the car.
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