200 Mind-Blowing Facts About Cars

200 Mind-Blowing Facts About Cars

Airbags were introduced as a safety measure in 1974.
In 1997, the first Toyota Prius was sold in Japan.
The first Japanese car sold in the U.K was a Daihatsu Compagno.
Did you know that 16% of all car owners never wash their cars?
China produces almost a quarter of the world’s total cars.
Almost 95% of a car’s lifetime is spent parked.
Did you know that large cars are more profitable than small cars?
Surprisingly, 80% of an average car is recyclable. In the U.S. alone, 12 million vehicles are recycled every year. Interestingly, automotive recycling is the 16th largest industry in the U.S.
Almost 65% of the world’s population drives on the right side of the road
Dangerous driving while writing SMS text message.
A crash typically happens within an average of three seconds after a driver is distracted. According to a source, texting while driving increases the chances of an accident by 23 times.
Astonishingly, by the mid-1960s, American made cars were delivered to retail buyers with an average 24 defects a unit, and many of these defects were safety related.
In 1980, Japan became the world’s leading auto producer. However, currently, it is the world’s third largest producer of cars (behind China and the US).
According to a source, London is the most expensive city in the world to park a car.
It is illegal to slam a car door in Switzerland after 10 PM. This law is just about not disturbing other people from the sound of the car's door closing.
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 transmissions.
In 2013, white was the world’s most favorite car color. According to an Australian study, white vehicles are 10% less likely to be involved in an accident. Moreover, cars that have mainstream colors are prone to theft more than those that have less popular colors.
In 2017, Tesla became the world’s second most valuable car company.
In case of a crash or an impact, airbags inflate in just 30 milliseconds. Learn the science behind airbags.
The Swedish word for ouch! is “aj!” A Swedish man probably said that and other, more colorful expletives after he was fined $1.15 million for speeding while driving his Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG at 186 miles an hour in Switzerland, twice the legal limit, in 2010. In Switzerland, speeding fines are tied proportionately to one's income.
In 1938, the Mercedes-Benz W125 reached a top speed of 268.8 miles per hour, a record for the fastest land-speed vehicle on a public road that stood for 80 years until it was broken by the Koenigsegg Agera RS in 2018. The W125 had been modified and was driven by Rudolf Caracciola, the 1935, 1937, and 1938 European Drivers' Champion. The vehicle is now housed at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
GPS has made traveling easier for motorists, but not all voices on GPS devices resonate with drivers. BMW had to recall its GPS models in Germany because drivers were dissatisfied that the GPS voice was female and did not take directions.
The word “car” comes from the Latin word “carrus” – a two-wheeled wagon.
New car smell is actually the smell of various volatile organic compounds that are used to manufacture the car. The smell is intoxicating and the manufacturers are adopting measure and techniques to get rid of this smell.
Toyota’s first car factory (now the Honsha Plant) was built in Koromo-cho.
Almost three-quarters of the Rolls Royce cars ever produced are still on the road today.
Did you know that the Volkswagen group comprises twelve brands from seven European countries: Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania, and MAN?
Electric cars are not a new phenomenon. Thomas Davenport is credited with building the first practical electric vehicle — a small locomotive.
There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
Elon Musk’s Tesla is popularizing the electric car today, but electric cars are hardly new. In fact, electric as well as steam-powered vehicles were more popular than gas-powered cars at the start of the 20th century. In 1900, 38% of all cars were electric. Electric cars were quiet and didn’t spew smelly gas pollutants. Thomas Edison believed electric cars were the future of transportation and tried to develop a better car battery, while Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the eponymous sports car, built the world's first hybrid electric car in 1901.
Until the mid-1960s, most American car horns were tuned to E flat or C. Since then, many automakers have included the notes F sharp and A sharp. Bells were the preferred noise signal for American motorists in the early part of the 20th century, but horns proved to be louder and more effective.
Following World War II, cars that were made in the United States became bigger, heavier, and fancier. They also became less safe and reliable—cars in the 1960s had an average of 24 defects, many safety-related. Adding to the American industry’s problem, competition from foreign carmakers cut into domestic market share, too; after selling 12.87 million units in 1978, sales of American-made cars tumbled to 6.95 million in 1982, while imports lifted their U.S. market share to 27.9% from 17.7%.
We know Henry Ford as the man who put America on wheels. However, he was also a virulent anti-Semite whose views reflected those of many Americans in the late 19th and early 20th centuries about the Jewish people. Ford-owned newspaper The Dearborn Independent published scurrilous articles that referred to Jews as the source of America’s and the world's ills. The newspaper circulated at Ford dealerships throughout the country.
Only about 18% of Americans can drive a stick shift, and just 5% of the cars sold in the United States have manual transmissions, creating a disincentive to learn how to drive a stick. Another factor is traffic congestion, which discourages drivers from buying cars with a manual transmission. People used to get cars with stick shifts because upfront costs were lower, they were better on gas, they were more durable, and they engaged the driver more. Today, manual transmissions can be found mostly in sports cars.
Toyota, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Honda, and Ford are among the world’s most valued car brands.
According to the EPA, in the U.S., 75% of Carbon Monoxide emissions come from automobiles.
Dubai has the world’s fastest police car (certified by Guinness World Records). It is a Bugatti Veyron — just one of its 14-strong fleet of super cars. The car uses a 16-cylinder engine which produces 1,000 horsepower. The car has a staggering top speed of 253 mph (407 km/h) and the ability to climb from 0 to 60 mph in just two and a half seconds.
The 1994 Honda Accord is the most stolen car in the history of the U.S.
According to the data analyzed by the U.S. Department of Transportation, crashes involving male drivers often are more severe than those involving female drivers. And many more men than women die each year in motor vehicle crashes.
Disputes with fixed objects and noncollisions accounted for only 18 percent of all crashes, but they accounted for 45 percent of fatal crashes (2010). Learn more stats from the National Highway Transport Safety Administration.
Three-point seat belts save one life every six seconds. Seat belts were invented by Volvo and were not patented so that the invention could be used for safety purposes by other car manufacturers as well.
The average cost of car ownership in the U.S. amounts to $8,876 per year for a sedan car or an average car for that matter.
In 2012, Nevada became the first U.S. state to issue the license to self-driving cars. Self-driving cars are autonomous cars that can drive from point A to point B without a driver. They use maps and sophisticated technology to accomplish the task. Researchers agree that these cars could help reduce road accidents in the future.
Interestingly, the Beetle (from 1938 until 2003; total 21,529,464 units produced) came into existence when Adolf Hitler inspired by Henry Ford ordered the German carmaker, Dr. Ferdinand Porche, to develop a people’s car or “Volks Wagen” called the KDF (Kraft durch Frende).
Toyota, Daihatsu, Nissan, Suzuki, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Isuzu, and Honda are all Japanese carmakers. Honda is the first Japanese carmaker to open a plant in the U.S. in the early 1980s.
On 15 September 1938, the Railton Mobile Special is the first car in the history to go faster than 350 mph (563.27 km/h). After further development, On 16 September 1947, John Cobb was able to break 400 mph (640 km/h) in a measured test. The car is available at Thinktank, the Museum of Science in Birmingham, England.
According to a study commissioned by Quadrant Information Services, the average cost of car insurance in America is just over $1300. The highest annual cost of car insurance was recorded in Michigan at $2,000.
The world’s first-ever speeding ticket was received by Walter Arnold when he was driving at four times the allowed speed – 2 miles per hour. This happened on January 28th, 1896 in Paddock Wood, Kent in England.
Los Angeles Police Department Police officer issuing a driver with a citation (ticket) for driving offenses.
One of the highest ever speeding tickets was handed over to a Swedish man in Switzerland for clocking at 180 miles per hour. The ticket cost him around £538,000. The speeding ticket in Switzerland is calculated based on the income of the offender. And indeed he must be a wealthy man to have been handed over such a hefty fine.
Irvin Gordon from the United States is the person who has achieved the highest vehicle mileage ever in his 1966 Volvo 1800S. Driving his car on a daily basis, he covers (85,000–100,000 miles) per year. By 1 May 2014, he had driven 3,039,122 miles. Now that is the equivalent of nearly 120 complete circumnavigations of the planet.
The automobile is the world’s most recycled product. Interesting isn’t it!
Interestingly, higher speed limits or no speed limit does not have any correlation to people driving faster.
If a car remote’s button is pressed 256 times consecutively when the car is out of range, the remote will become dysfunctional as it will lose its sync with the car.
There is a small triangle icon next to the fuel icon on the dashboard of a car. This little triangular icon helps identify the side on which the gas door is. In older cars, this icon may not be present but it is available in most of the new generation cars.
The world’s lowest street-legal car at just 19 inches high was built by Perry Watkins of Buckinghamshire, England. The flat mobile has a ground clearance of just 2 inches.
J Frank Duryea and Charles E Duryea are credited as being the first gasoline-powered commercial car manufacturers in the United States.
The British traffic police carry teddy bears among their equipment to comfort children after a road mishap.
The first accident involving an automobile occurred in 1891. James Lambert was driving in his single-cylinder gasoline automobile with another passenger in Ohio City, Ohio, when he struck a tree root and slammed into a hitching post. The injuries were minor, but the accident led to improved safety equipment for drivers.
Mechanics belonging to Great Britain's Royal Marines replaced an engine in a Ford Escort in just 42 seconds on Nov. 21, 1985. The five British servicemen from Portsmouth, England, practiced removing and replacing an engine every day for two weeks.
About 65% of the world's motorists drive on the right side of the road.
The odds of dying in a car accident are 1-5,000. Those odds are a lot worse than perishing in a plane crash, which are 1-11 million.
For reasons that apparently only make sense in California, it is illegal to jump between cars that are traveling at more than 65 miles per hour. For any car traveling slower, it is apparently OK.
Here’s an option that not even gadget genius Q from the James Bond movies could have dreamed up: BMW in South Africa offered a flamethrower option called the Blaster to prevent carjackings, which had soared in South Africa in the 1990s. The flamethrower was a liquified petroleum gas installed along the sides of the vehicle under its doors. If the driver felt threatened, he or she could flip a switch to shoot flames from the vehicle at the intruder. Because of the steep price of the Blaster, relatively few drivers opted for it.
Cars were a horseless carriage when they were built for the first time in 1895.
Did you know that an average American car contains 55 pounds of copper wiring? And an electric car can have three times this amount of copper in them.
Interestingly, more than a 100 million lines of code is used to program the computer system used in a Bentley Bentayga.
Did you know that San Marino with 1263 cars per 1,000 inhabitants tops the list of the countries with most cars per 1,000 people, followed by Monaco and the United States (est. 2014)?
According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), drivers ages 16-19 are three times more likely to crash than drivers over 20.
In 2015/16, the police recorded 14,602 carjacking incidents in South Africa, a 14.3% increase from the previous year. On average, 40 cars were hijacked per day.
According to a source, the world’s first non-fatal automobile accident happened with James Lambert while he was driving in his single-cylinder gasoline automobile, in 1891 in Ohio City, Ohio. The injuries, however, were minor.
Wheels are an essential part of any automobile or motorized vehicle for that matter. Did you know that wheels were invented around 3500 B.C in Mesopotamia and surprisingly no one knows how they were invented? However, initially, they were not used for transportation. It took 300 years after the invention of the wheels that someone realized they could be used to serve a larger purpose.
Did you know that how the world famous brand ‘Mercedes’ came into existence? Interestingly, the name ‘Mercedes’ was adopted from the name of a customer’s daughter ‘Mercedes Jellinek’.
Benz and Mercedes were competitors until 1920. When these companies merged, the newly formed company started selling cars under the brand name ‘Mercedes-Benz’.
47. The rubber used in the tires of a car 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.
According to the cars.com, the Ferrari 458 Spider, 563 is the most accident-prone car in the world. And the least accident prone-vehicle according to the website is the Ford F-150 SuperCrew, 42.
Toyota Motor Corp. is the world’s biggest automobile company. It is also the world’s richest car manufacturing company.
The title for the longest car in the world is taken by a custom-built limousine by California car guru Jay Ohrberg. The car is 100 meters long and is recorded by the Guinness World Records as the longest car ever built in the world. Surprisingly, the car has a swimming pool and a helicopter pad as well.
From 1909 to 1927, Ford built more than 15 million cars. At first it took 12 hours to assemble a Model T, but more efficient assembly line technology sped up the process, cutting the time to eight minutes for each car in 1913. By 1927, during the last years of the production of the Model T, the factory could produce a completely assembled car in 24 seconds. The Model T cost around $850 in 1908, but because of production efficiencies, the price was lowered to $260 in 1925.
The 2011 Ford Crown Victoria was the last car to offer a cassette player as an option. Ford also shut down production of the Crown Victoria itself that year.
Research from the Federal Highway Administration found that there are about 280 million tires discarded each year by American motorists, nearly one tire for every person in the country. Around 30 million of these tires are retreaded or reused. It has been estimated that there may be up to 3 billion tires contained in numerous stockpiles.
The man who invented mass production of autos, Henry Ford, coined the phrase “tune-up.” The first ignition systems were composed of spark plugs and ignition coils. If the coils worked together properly, they would buzz at the same level and be in tune. If they did not, it meant the vehicle wasn’t running at its optimum level and the coils needed to be adjusted, or tuned up.
A 2019 report from the Texas A&M Transportation Institute found that the average American commuter spends 54 extra hours a year in traffic delays. “Extra hours" means the extra time spent traveling at congested speeds. In Los Angeles, the most congested metro area, commuters spent an average of 119 hours in traffic in 2017.
Rolls-Royce automobiles have been on the road since the early 1900s, and their allure has not dimmed over time. They’ve also proved to be durable—75% of them are still functioning.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland. And if we’re going to get technical, it still is between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
Ford dominated the early auto market
An example of market dominance was the Ford Model T. In 1916, 55% of all the cars in the world were Model T Ford.
Did you know that in 1982, the automobile industry provided one of every 6 jobs in the U.S? Thus, the automobile industry became a key force for change in 20th century America.
From 1909 to 1927, Ford built more than 15 million cars. Initially, the Model T took 12 hours for assembly. With the help of the assembly line technique, this amount of time was cut to 8 minutes for each car in 1913, and finally in 1927, during the last years of the production of the Model T, the factory was delivering a completely assembled car in just 24 seconds. Now that’s the power of innovation.
One of the worlds’ most loved cars; the Volkswagen Beetle was sold 20 million and more units worldwide and was the most popular car of the 20th century.
It is a criminal offense to drive a dirty car in Russia. Read some weird car laws here.
According to a source, in the U.K, almost £70,000 is spent on fuel by the average motorist over their lifetime.
Ralph Teetor–the inventor of cruise control (also known as a speedostat or tempomat) was blind. He invented the cruise control in 1948.
In 1941, Henry Ford made a car out of soybeans. The car weighed 2000 lbs and had a tubular steel frame that had 14 plastic panels attached to it.
Denmark is one of the most expensive countries in which to buy a new car. Denmark collects 150% tax on all new car purchases. However, according to a source, the country is recently looking to cut the tax rate to 100% for new vehicle purchases.
Interestingly, half of all the new cars sold in Norway are electric or hybrid.
After the initial introduction of cars in the American market, there was an intense competition between other manufacturers and Ford Motor Company. General Motors had to take a planned obsolescence of products between 1920 and 1930 so that they could build better cars that attracted customers.
Did you know that Henry Ford made eight different models of cars (A, B, C, F, K, N, R, S – have a look at all of them here) before he could produce the famous Model T? The Ford Model T had a four-cylinder inline engine that produced 20 HP.
The world’s first electric traffic signal was installed at the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland in 1914. The first center-painted dividing line appeared in Michigan in 1911, and the first sign prohibiting left turns debuted in Buffalo, New York, in 1916.
In 1950, 36-year-old engineer Eiji Toyoda was sent by the U.S. Army, which was still occupying Japan, to learn about mass production from Ford at the sprawling Ford Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan. The Army needed Toyoda’s family-owned car company, Toyota, to build trucks for U.S. troops fighting in Korea, and Toyoda was looking for ways to help his family’s struggling company survive. He helped develop a production process in Japan that over the next 20 years created the modern Toyota colossus.
Norway is among the more environmentally conscious nations in the world, and that is reflected in that country’s choice of transportation. Half of all new cars sold in Norway are electric or hybrid.
For the more budget-conscious among us, the decision to own a car can be an important one. The average cost of owning a car in the United States is $8,876 per year for a sedan or an average car.
The three-point seat belt saves a life every six seconds. They were invented by Volvo and were not patented so that the invention could be used for safety purposes by other carmakers.
The Volkswagen Beetle is one of the world’s most loved cars and the most popular of the 20th century. In 2018, the company announced that after 80 years, it was discontinuing production of the car the following year. The “Bug” had its origins in 1938 when Nazi leader Adolf Hitler commissioned engineer Ferdinand Porsche to design a simple, economical vehicle for the German people.
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.
In 1908, the Model T developed by Henry Ford became the first car available to the masses. This was a low-cost car. It cost around $850 in 1908 and $260 in 1925 (the reduction in the cost of the car was mainly because of the invention of the assembly line).
First time in America and the world: the world’s first electric traffic signal is put into place on the corner of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, on 5th August in 1914. Also, the first center painted dividing line appeared in 1911, in Michigan; the first “No Left Turn” sign would debut in Buffalo, New York, in 1916; and left-hand drive became standard in American cars in 1908.
The first self-propelled vehicle–Cugnot Fardier—was made by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot in 1769. It was a steam-powered tricycle.
The world’s first IC engine–The Pyréolophore–was probably built by Nicephore Niepce in 1807. The inventor is also credited with the invention of photography.
Carl Benz applied for a patent for his “vehicle powered by a gas engine” on January 29, 1886. The patent application, bearing the number DRP – 37435 could also be referred as the birth certificate of the automobile. The patent application was registered with the German Imperial Patent Office in Berlin.
The world’s first long-distance journey (from Mannheim in southern Germany to Pforzheim) in the history of the automobile was undertaken by Bertha Benz (wife of Carl Benz) and her two sons in August 1888.
There are an estimated 1.2 billion cars in the world today while there were only 500 million in 1986. According to a report released by a research house Bernstein, there will be a total of 2 billion cars on the planet by 2040.
An average car has 30,000 parts. About 9,770,000 cars were made in Japan in 2014. Of this total, Toyota made about 3,270,000 cars.
Did you know that headlamp is the term used for a device which is attached to the front of a vehicle to light the road ahead? And headlight is the term which refers to the beam of light produced and distributed by the device.
Did you know that the Rolls Royce HP-15 is one of the rarest cars on the planet? Wondering why? Learn that a total of 6 of these cars were made. Only one of these cars is still available in the world. And it is estimated worth is $35 million. The car had 3 cylinders and a top speed of 39 miles per hour.
Leonardo da Vinci invented the first car in 1478 on paper. In 2004, a replica of the car was crafted and was kept in the Institute and Museum of the history of Science in Florence, Italy.
In 1940, the first four-wheel drive car for the U.S. military was produced. It was called the Jeep.
In 1962, the use of seat belt became a law in Wisconsin. Seat belts save one life every six minutes.
Tata Nano, manufactured by the Indian automotive giant Tata Motors, is the world’s cheapest car. It is a rear wheel drive car and can run at a top speed of 105 km per hour.
According to a source, Hong Kong has more Rolls-Royce cars per capita than any other country in the world.
Carjacking in South Africa is very common. Hence, BMW cars are fitted with flamethrowers on the side to avert theft.
In Japan, there are different stickers which are used on the cars to identify the driving capabilities and experience of a car’s driver. These stickers help other car drivers to be a little more patient when driving around such cars.
The late M. Allen Swift of West Hartford, Connecticut, owned the 1928 Phantom I, S273 FP for 77 years. The car was gifted to him by his father on his 26th birthday. M. Allen Swift is credited with owning his 1928 Rolls-Royce longer than any other Rolls owner.
Opened in 1907, Brooklands, 2.75 miles long, was the world’s first purpose-built motor racing circuit.
Can you figure out the name of the automobile company that has four overlapping rings? You guessed it right, it is Audi. The company’s logo has a set of four overlapping rings that depict the four companies the names of the four original companies that Audi is formed from. Earlier they used to have the name of the individual company’s name in the ring but that has disappeared in the last few years.
The iconic three-pointed star of Mercedes-Benz is a representation of the company’s dominance in three places: the sea, air, and land.
Another impressive car logo which has drooled the hearts of millions of people globally is the Ferrari logo. The horse emblem with a bright yellow color in the background came to existence when Enzo Ferrari was asked to paint a prancing horse on his vehicles to honor fighter pilot and World War I hero Count Francesco Barraca, who painted a similar horse on his plane.
The average fuel cost across all vehicles is 14.45 cents per mile or about 23 miles per gallon.
The U.S. consumes about half of the world’s gasoline.
Although 1886 is credited with being the birth year of the modern automobile, the first gas gauge wasn’t installed until 1922.
Every year, over $60 billion worth of car maintenance goes unperformed.
The average consumer spends $400 a year on diagnostics, scheduled maintenance, and tune-ups.
Traffic congestion wastes three billion gallons of gas each year.
The first windshield wipers were hand-operated.
The most commonly stolen vehicle is the Honda Accord.
White is the most popular car color.
The total average repair cost in the U.S. is $305.55, including $202.28 for parts and $103.27 for labor.
The average American will spend two weeks of his or her life stopped at red lights.
90 percent of drivers admit to signing behind the wheel.
The first cars did not have steering wheels. They were operated by a lever.
An airbag inflates within 40 milliseconds of a crash.
It takes half an ounce of gas to start a car.
Most car horns beep in the key of “F”.
The automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world.
Faulty oxygen sensors account for 40 percent of all check engine light related issues.
Black was the best-selling car color in 2018, according to used-car retailer CarMax, accounting for 22.3% of cars sold. White is next at 19.3%, followed by gray (17.6%), and silver (14.6%).
The automobile industry employs 9.9 million Americans, or about 5.1% of private-sector employment, according to the Auto Alliance. Michigan and Ohio employ the most workers in the auto industry.
On Jan. 28, 1896, Walter Arnold was arrested for driving four times the speed limit in the countryside of Kent in England. Arnold was ticketed for driving at the hair-raising speed of 8 miles an hour and had to pay a fine of 1 shilling, plus other costs. The London resident was nabbed by a police officer on a bicycle.
A modern Formula 1 car can drive upside down in a tunnel at 120 miles per hour. F1 cars, whose average top speed is 233 miles per hour, produce around 3.5 gravitational forces when cornering. That means they have enough aerodynamic downforce to drive upside down in a tunnel.
1.32 billion cars are currently on the road
There were 1.32 billion cars in the world through 2016. China has surpassed the United States as the nation with the most vehicles, numbering 300.3 million as of April 2017.
A car crash typically occurs within an average of three seconds after a driver is distracted. Up to 80% of all automobile crashes involve some form of driver distraction.
The first built car, known as the De Dion Bouton et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos Steam Runabout, was constructed in 1884 and sold at an auction in Hershey, Pennsylvania, for $4.62 million in 2011.
French drivers must have a breathalyzer kit
If you're driving in France, make sure that you have an unused breathalyzer kit in your car at all times. Drivers also need to have a fluorescent vest, a hazard triangle, replacement headlamp bulbs, and a first-aid kit.
Films featuring car chases such as “Bullitt” and the “Fast & Furious” movies are among the favorites of the movie-going public. The reality is that the average car spends about 95% of its time parked.
NASCAR was actually created because of Prohibition. Moonshiners had to transport their beverages quickly without raising suspicion, which led to the creation of souped-up cars that were tuned up to outrun highway patrol cars. These were the precursors to stock cars, which eventually led to stock car races of today.
Car logos are among the most distinct emblems in commerce, and Audi’s rings are among the most famous. The four overlapping rings of Audi represent the four manufacturers of Auto Union: Audi, Horch, DKW, and Wanderer.
The British car company Jaguar was originally called the Swallow Sidecar Co. and, from 1934, were called SS Cars. After World War II, the company changed its name because of the notorious reputation of the Nazi SS, the paramilitary organization that committed atrocities throughout much of Europe during the war.
Until 1973, the auto industry used sperm whale oil as an ingredient in automatic transmission fluid. Automakers like General Motors continued to use it until 1973 when Congress passed the Endangered Species Act forbidding the use of sperm whale oil. Until the act was passed, thousands of sperm whales were killed every year to get nearly 29 million pounds of the whale oil used in automatic transmission fluid.
When someone buys a Ferrari, they are joining a very exclusive club. Because of the carmaker’s close attention to detail, Ferrari makes no more than 14 cars per day. In comparison, Toyota could produce 13,400 cars a day in 2014.
The Toyota Corolla is the world’s best-selling car. It’s sold in over 150 countries and regions and is sold once every 15 seconds. The car debuted in 1966 and arrived in the United States in 1968. The Corolla is now in its 12th generation.
Honda Accords and Civics are usually the most stolen cars in the United States. The 1994 Honda Accord is the most stolen car in the history of the United States.
M. Allen Swift, a resident of West Hartford, Connecticut, owned a Rolls-Royce—a 1928 Phantom I, S273 FP—for 77 years. The car was given to him by his father on his 26th birthday, a reward for remaining with the family business. Swift is credited with owning his 1928 Rolls-Royce longer than any other Rolls owner and presented the vehicle to the Wood Museum of Springfield History two months before his death in 2005.
The Ferrari logo is among the most well known of automakers’ emblems. The horse silhouette on a yellow background was painted on Ferrari vehicles to honor Italian fighter pilot and World War I hero Count Francesco Barraca, who painted a similar horse on his plane.

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