20 Interesting Facts About Cars

Achieng Mary | 1 year ago
Lamborghini Urus and Rolls-Royce Cullinan

Cars are incredible, whether you are using them as a means of transport or as a symbol of luxury they have always proven to make work easier. 

However, there is not much known about cars unless one is a professional, who is very passionate about cars.

Well, if you are looking for random facts about cars, below is a list of interesting facts about cars.

1. Every year 70 million cars are produced.

2. Volkswagen's best-selling product has nothing to do with cars

3. The German autobahn is the only place in the world where you're allowed to drive as fast as you can on public roads

4. Tesla is the world's most valuable car company since July 2020 when a surge in stock prices allowed it to overtake Toyota.

5. 96% of a car's lifetime is spent parked 

6. Drivers kill more dears than hunters do.

7. whale oil was used in some car transmissions until 1973 when the whales were put on an endangered species list as a result the transmission failures rose by 800 in the following three years until the viable synthetic replacement entered the market.

8. The 1989 honda prelude was the first mass-production car to have four-wheel steering.

9. The world's largest speeding fine of one million dollars was issued to a Mercedes SLS driver who did 180 miles per hour.

10. There are currently 1.3 billion cars around the world.

11. Ferrari 250 gto is the only car recognized by the court as a piece of art.

12. Approximately 75 of all Rolls-Royces ever made are still on the road.

13. A dashboard was initially a piece of wood attached to a horse-drawn carriage to prevent mud and poor from splattering upon the driver

14. Approximately five months of a person's life is spent waiting in a car at red lights.

15. Out of 70 million new cars made each year  a third of them are made in china

16. In 2008 Lamborghini gave the Italian government the world's fastest police car a v10 Gallardo which was crashed a year later.

17. Hyundai Tucson offers a special walking dead edition that contains a zombie survival kit which is a backpack with supplies that will last you for about 72 hours.

18.  Leonardo da Vinci made a sketch for the first self-propelled carriage back in 1478.

In 2004 a replica of his car was built and is now being kept in the museum of science and history.

19. The world's fastest police car is the 250 mile per hour bugatti veyron used by the dubai police number 

20. Cars are the most recycled consumer products in the world