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Twenty five mind blowing facts about cars

Twenty five mind blowing facts about cars
Today's modern world could simply not do without the introduction of cars. Automotive history has evolved so much from the time when Karl Benz created the Benz Patent Motorwagen, considered the first automobile, in 1886. Today, supercars and future flying cars are the norm. We give you 25 of the best mind blowing facts about cars for the past century.
  • Around the world, 60 million cars are produced in a single year. This translates to 165,000 cars a day. Of this, at least a third, or 20 million units are produced in China.
  • If you drive a car towards the moon at a speed of 60 miles per hour, you can reach the moon in six months.
  • The iconic hood ornament on Rolls-Royce cars is called the “Spirit of Ecstasy”. In 2008, a special edition of this ladylike figure was encrusted with diamonds and was sold for $200,000.
  • The world’s lowest street-legal car has a height of only 19 inches and was called the “Flatmobile.” It was owned and built by Perry Watkins of Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.

  • The first three cars that James Bond ever drove were: a Bentley Mark IV (from Russia with Love 1963); an Aston Martin DB5 (from Goldfinger 1964) and a Lincoln Convertible (from Thunderball 1964)

The Aston Martin DB5 in the movie "Goldfinger"
  • Hongkong is the city with the most Rolls-Royces per capita in the world. On September 2014, Hongkong hotelier tycoon Stephen Hung ordered the single largest purchase of this luxury brand with 30 Bespoke Extended Wheelbase Rolls-Royce Phantoms.
  • The average car has 30,000 parts or more.
  • The automobile is the most recycled product in the world.
  • Ninety percent of drivers sing behind the wheel.

  • The dashboard was originally a plank of wood attached to the front of a horse-drawn carriage which prevented mud from splattering the driver.

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  • 1902 was the year when the first speeding ticket was issued, during this time cars could barely reach 45 mph.
  • There are 1 billion cars currently in use all around the world.
  • The Middle English word car came from the French word carre and earlier from the Latin word carrus which means “wheeled vehicle.”
  • In 3500 B.C. the first and oldest known wheel was discovered in Mesopotamia.

  • The talking car of the Knight Rider TV Series, KITT (Knight Industries Two Thousand), was based on a Pontiac Trans Am.

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  • In 2010, 10 Pakistani girls crammed in a smart car and made it into the Guinness World Book of Records.
  • Thanks Paul Galvin the next time you listen to your car’s stereo for he invented his Motorola radio in 1929.
  • Toyota is the largest car producer in the world, producing more than 13,000 cars each day.
  • The best things in life are free. In Turkmenistan, car drivers are entitled to 120 liters of free fuel a month.

  • Hit anime Initial D protagonist Takumi Fujiwara drives a Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX also called as the AE86. He occasionally switches to a Subaru Impreza WRX STI Coupe Type R Verion V. 

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  • The odds of dying in a car accident are around 1 in 5,000.
  • The “new car smell” you get from a brand new car is composed of more than 50 volatile organic compounds.
  • Sergio Pininfarina was one of the well known car designers for Ferrari. He died in July 2012.
  • The 2012 Mia Electric is the slowest car to accelerate from 0-60 mph, as it takes 30 seconds. The fastest dasher in the world for the same length is the 2002 Lingenfelter Chevrolet Corvette.

  • The first car to ever emerge in the Philippines was a George Richard car from La Estrella del Norte of France, shipped in 1900.

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