Vehicle Facts

Read up on some fun, interesting facts about cars. America stands for “car,” right? Here are some fun facts about cars and their colorful past.

• The car is one of the most recognizable inventions of the modern era.

• The first cars did not have steering wheels. Drivers steered with a lever.

• The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany.
  

  Japan produced the most passenger vehicles/most total vehicles world wide in 2006.

• In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale.

• The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902.

• Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.

• The first gas gauge appeared in cars in 1922.

• The first car radio was invented in 1929.

• Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.

• Hong Kong is home to the most Rolls Royce’s in the world.

• It takes about 25 hours to build a car, a whopping 10 hours of that 25 is spent painting the car.

• An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to deflate.

• 16% of people never wash their car.

• The automobile is the most recycled product in the world.

• Hitler, while in prison wrote to a Mercedes-Benz dealership begging for a car loan.

• 90% of drivers sing behind the wheel. (The others are too embarrassed to admit it!)

• A car was created that is fueled by cappuccino as an attempt at creating a renewable energy source.

• The heaviest limousine weighs over 50,000 pounds and houses up to 40 passengers.

• Many British traffic police officers carry teddy bears to console children after car crashes.