Interesting Facts About Cars
- 90% of New York City taxi drivers are immigrants.
- In Haiti, only 1 in 200 people own a car.
- There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.
- A standard 500-page book cannot be crushed even if 15 coal-loaded wagons are placed on it.
- Volkswagen owns Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche.
- In Finland, speeding fines are based on the driver’s annual income. Once, a man received a $200,000 fine.
- While it takes 13 hours to fully assemble a Toyota on a conveyor belt, it takes 6 months to make a Rolls Royce.
- In a collision at 50 km/h, a body is thrown from the seat with a force of 1 ton.
- The first car to exceed 100 km/h was surprisingly an electric vehicle, created in 1899 by Belgian race car driver Camille Jenatzy.
- The most expensive taxis in the world are in England (the famous London cabs), followed by Italy (with its impulsive drivers), and Germany.
- The export name for the Lada Kalina car in Finland is Lada-119, because "Kalina" translates to rattle, clatter, rumble, and jingle in Finnish.
- The hood ornament on a Rolls-Royce costs $5,000.
- The VAZ-2101 was based on the Fiat 124. The VAZ-2103, a luxury version of the VAZ-2101, was also based on the Fiat 124.
- The average car contains around 1,000 wires totaling 2 kilometers in length and weighing 40 kilograms.
- During the development of the "Pobeda” car, it was initially going to be named "Rodina" (Motherland). Upon learning this, Stalin sarcastically asked, "How much does the Motherland cost now?” prompting the name change to "Pobeda” (Victory).
- The longest traffic jam in history was recorded in 1980 on a French highway between Paris and Lyon, stretching about 200 kilometers. The second-longest was near Hamburg in 1993, measuring 180 kilometers.
