- The worlds cheapest car is the Tata Nano, from India. The car costs approx. $3400 based on currency conversion rates.
- A crash typically happens within an average of three seconds after a driver is distracted. Texting while driving increases the chances of an accident by 23 times.
- Ralph Teetor, the man who invented cruise control, was blind. He was inspired by his doctor who would always speed up and slow down when he drove.
- White is the most popular car color
- It would take you a little under 6 months of non stop driving to drive to the moon at an average speed of 60 miles per hour and the distance from the earth to the moon being 238,900 miles.
- A modern Formula 1 car can drive upside down in a tunnel at 120mph. F1 cars produce around 3.5G while cornering, meaning they’ve enough aerodynamic downforce to drive upside down in a tunnel.
- Of all the cars Rolls-Royce has ever built, 75% are still being used.
- Almost 35% of the worlds population drives on the left side of the road
- Almost 95% of a car’s lifetime is spent parked
- The world’s first automobile was developed by Carl Benz in 1885. The top speed of the motor car was 16 km per hour. It had a one cylinder four-stroke engine installed horizontally on a specifically designed chassis. It was known as the Benz Patent Motorwagen.
- Driving a car with a standard or manual transmission is not an easy job for Americans. Note that more than 95% of the cars in the U.S. have automatic transmission. On the other hand, in Europe and Japan, more than 80 percent of cars sold have manual transmisions.
- The word "car" is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle"), or the Middle Engliah word carre (meaning cart, from Old North French). In turn, these originated from the Gaulish word karros.
- There are more cars than people in Los Angeles
- The rubber used in car tires is vulcanized. Vulcanization is a process for converting natural rubber or related polymers into more durable materials by heating them with sulfur or other equivalent curatives or accelerators. Charles Goodyear invented the process of vulcanization of rubber when he was in jail and was experimenting with a piece of rubber and a pin. He accidentally dropped the piece of the rubber on the hot stove and the rubber became black and tough.
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