Here are some facts you never know about cars
1. The best place to sit in a car is the middle sit at the back
2. About 165,000 cars are produced every day.
3. It would take less than 6 months to get to the Moon by car at
60mph (95km/h).
4. Hitler, while in prison, wrote to a Mercedes dealership begging
for a car loan.
5. The average car has 30,000 parts.
6. 92% of all new sold cars in Brazil use ethanol as fuel, which is
produced from sugar cane
.
7. The average American spends about 38 hours a year stuck in traffic.
8. Volkswagen owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi,
Ducati and Porsche.
9. The first car accident occurred in 1891, in Ohio.
10. The odds of dying in a car accident are around 1 in 5,000.
11. When the car radio was introduced, some states wanted to ban it arguing that it could distract drivers and cause accidents.
12. It is a criminal offense to drive around in a dirty car in Russia.
13. In Turkmenistan, car drivers are entitled to 120 Liters (31 gal.) of free petrol a month.
14. There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
15. The inventor of the cruise control was blind.
16. The world's fastest street-legal production car is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, at 267 mph (431 km/h).
17. Honking your car horn, except in an emergency, is illegal in NYC
18. 95% of a car's lifetime is spent parked.
19. During a car crash, 40% of drivers never even hit the brakes.
20. It costs US$8,876 per year to own and maintain an average car in the U.S. That's US$443,800 in 50 years
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