101 Facts About Cars

did you know that volkswagen's best-selling product has nothing to do with cars do you know what the fq on mitsubishi's evo fq400 stands for do you know what the largest speeding fine ever was hey guys i'm stipe and this is 101 facts you didn't know about cars probably number one only 18 of americans know how to drive a stick shift and that number is expected to go even lower since just five percent of new cars sold in the us have a manual transmission so if you don't want to have your car stolen get a stick number two the german autobahn is the only place in the world where you're allowed to drive as fast as you can on public roads [Music] number three tesla is the world's most valuable car company since july 2020 when a surge in stock prices allowed it to overtake toyota number four almost 96 of a car's lifetime is spent parked let's say an average person drives an hour and 40 minutes per day that means that the car is sitting still for the remaining 22 hours and 20 minutes that's about 96 of the day number five american women buy more new cars than men 62 number six in utah biologists estimated that drivers kill more deer than hunters do at a particular 22 mile stretch of the road an average of six deer are killed every single mile number seven porsche taikan is not the first electric porsche it is in fact this an 1898 c2 phaeton designed by the man himself ferdinand porsche that's his first car ever and in a way this also means that the first porsche was an electric number eight 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 number nine the 1989 honda prelude was the first mass production car to have four-wheel steering why don't all cars have this it greatly improves the agility of the car number 10 talking about agility there's this moose test where you have to quickly change the lane and go back again not surprisingly supercars like the porsche 911 gt3 rs and mclaren 675 lt are storming through it at 51 miles per hour but the fastest car ever is the 1999 citroen zantia with 53 miles per hour this is thanks to its hydropneumatic suspension that completely eliminates the body roll and levels the car to the point where you can drive on three wheels only number eleven the world's largest speeding fine of one million dollars one million dollars was issued to a mercedes sls driver who did 180 miles per hour in a 70 mile per hour zone this happened in switzerland where fines are proportional to the driver's income best law ever number 12 the cambodian 500 rail notebill has nissan juke and toyota camry on the back of it this is actually not the first time that cars have appeared on cambodian money an older version of the same note had some sort of sports car which many things the porsche cayman but i'm not sure by the way 500 rails is about 12 cents number 13 there are currently 1.3 billion cars around the world one for every five people san marino has the largest number per capita 1.2 cars for each person number 14 in christopher nolan's batman film bruce wayne drives a lamborghini murcielago in spanish murcielago means bat number 15 a modern car has about 30 000 different parts how many can you name number 16 ferrari 250 gto is the only car recognized by the court as a piece of art it's also a way for ferrari to legally stop anyone from creating replicas of what are now the most valuable cars in the world number 17 approximately 75 of all rolls-royces ever made are still on the road this is not one of them number 18 the word gar comes from the latin param which originally meant two-wheeled celtic war chariot number 19 in the united states a car stolen every 45 seconds and most likely it's a honda accord number 20 a dashboard was initially a piece of wood attached to a horse-drawn carriage to prevent mud and poor from splattering up on the driver number 21 approximately five months of a person's life is spent waiting in a car at red lights just remember that when you're on your deathbed number 22 over 70 million new cars are made each year and that number is growing a third of them are made in china number 23. roger moore who drove the lotus spree in james bond for your eyes only liked the car so much that he wanted to buy one for himself lotus offered him 2 off the recommended retail price he never bought the car number 24 daniel craig who also played james bond but drove aston martin's can take any car from aston's factory for free for the rest of his life now that is how you treat people who do marketing for you number 25 in 2008 lamborghini gave the italian government the world's fastest police car a v10 gallardo a year later it was crashed and crashed thoroughly number 26 the cost of traffic congestion in the united states amounts to over 160 billion dollars each year this includes the wear and tear on vehicles gas burned while idling and loss of productivity number 27 chevrolet introduced the first car radio in 1922 with a huge price tag of 200 that's over 3 000 in today's money many states actually believe the radio was too distracting and tried to ban it from cars number 28 the best selling car of all time is the toyota corolla with over 44 million cars sold these days they sell one every 40 seconds number 29 hyundai tucson offers a special the walking dead edition which contains a zombie survival kit it's really just the backpack with supplies that will last you for about 72 hours sadly no spiked bat [Music] the united states has more cars than any other country in the world 270 million but china is expected to have more any moment now 31 mr alan swift from springfield massachusetts drove his 1928 rolls-royce roadster for 82 years after his death in 2005 the car was donated to a museum number 32 remember the moose test suvs will often fail and flip onto their side but no one expected a small a-class to do the same mercedes recalled the car to address the issue and postponed the launch of the smart 4-2 for a whole year just to make sure that they didn't get embarrassed again number 33 early ford cars had many parts manufactured by the dodge brothers company yes that dodge number 34 yo one horsepower equals to lifting 550 pounds to a height of one foot in one second an average horse can achieve up to 15 horsepower while sprinting number 35 carjacking in johannesburg south africa was so rampant that one inventor came up with an anti-theft device that shoots flames from the side of the car he sold a few hundred of these the device has never been banned number 36 at the turn of the 20th century 38 of cars were electric 40 ran on steam and only 22 were powered by gasoline number 37 people who take public transport rather than driving their own cars are on average five pounds lighter number 38 lewis chevrolet the founder of the chevrolet car company died poor working as a mechanic for the company he started number 39 koenigsegg trevita has a carbon fiber body infused with diamond dust only three were made and at the time they were the most expensive road legal cars ever made costing a cool 4.8 million number 40. when volvo invented the modern three-point seat belt 50 years ago they made the patent open and free for all car manufacturers to use good guy volvo number 41 car insurance companies state that the average driver will get into about three to four accidents during their lifetime how far along are you number 42 around 65 percent of the world's population drives on the right side of the road doesn't seem that way when you look at a map but notice the highly populated india which used to be a british colony number 43 airbags inflate in just .03 seconds the blink of an eye lasts four times longer number 44 in the mid-1960s american-made cars were delivered to retail buyers with an average of 24 defects apiece no wonder more reliable japanese cars took over number 45 by the end of the model t production life ford was turning out a fully assembled car in just 24 seconds number 46 the cruise control was invented in 1948 by a blind guy named ralph teeter he hated how his lawyer was driving always breaking and accelerating can you just hold it at a constant speed man number 47 half of all new cars sold in norway are electric or hybrid interestingly enough they are forbidden by law from being marketed as green cards because according to norway all cars harm the planet some just do it less it's true number 48 denmark is one of the most expensive countries in which to buy a new car the danish government collects up to 150 tax on new car purchases yeah you won't be seeing any bugattis with the danish plates number 49 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 at number 50 in los angeles there are more cars than people number 51 shelby cobra super snake is the rarest and most extreme og cobra ever only two were made shelby kept one for himself and the other was bought by none other than bill cosby this guy just keeps on surprising number 52 more than a hundred million lines of code are used to program the computer system in a bentley bentega i wonder how many bugs are still in there number 53 each bolt in the wyra is made of titanium and has a pagani logo laser etched on it there are 1400 of them in total and together they cost 112 000 titanium man it's strong and it's light but definitely not cheap number 54 hong kong has more rolls royces per capita than any other country in the world number 55 only one 1983 corps that exist this is because chevrolet had to delay the production of the c4 model until the next year but there were still 40 or so cars built in 1983 for testing and evaluation purposes only of those only one survived and this is it number 56 ervin gordon is the person who has achieved the highest vehicle mileage ever in his 1966 volvo 1800s he's driven 3 million 39 122 miles this is the equivalent of nearly 120 complete circles around the planet number 57 countach is a swear word and it roughly translates into me dead but in a positive and surprising way we did you're having a good one number 58 the british traffic police carries teddy bears among their equipment to comfort children after a road accident because that's what heroes do number 59 16 of all car owners never wash their cars are you one of them number 60 henry ford made eight different models a b c f k n r and s before he struck gold with the model t number 61 the world's fastest police car is the 250 mile per hour bugatti veyron used by the dubai police number 62 cars are the most recycled consumer products in the world 63. most car horns in the usa beep in the key of f here take a listen number 64. jaguar was called ss before the war but later they changed it because they didn't want to be associated with the infamous ss nazi troops 65 some supercars generate so much downforce that they could drive in a tunnel upside down that's in theory of course no one is insane enough to try it number 66 when lotus put electric windows in the elise all hell broke loose among purists because it added weight but actually the new system was lighter number 67 ford model t is regarded as the first affordable car for the masses with the original price as low as 260 dollars that's less than 4 000 today can you even imagine number 68 volvo was the first car manufacturer to fit six-figure odometers to its cars which shows just how reliable they are number 69 the smart roadster has the same wheelbase as the porsche 911 997 generation number 70 according to a study by bmw in 2010 80 of the one series owners thought their car was front-wheel drive simply because most hatchbacks are number 71 as reported by the bugatti ceo their customers on average own 84 cars three jets and a yacht whereas an average bentley customer has only eight cars that's the difference between a millionaire and a billionaire number 72 renault high performance 2-liter turbo engine is named f4rt fart i think that's hilarious 73. when cars were first introduced they were seen as an ecological means of transportation this was because horses caused so much filth just by crapping all over the streets number 74 coral benz didn't invent the first car he was just the first person to patent it but because he made several identical copies of it this can be considered as the first production car number 75 in 1973 the us government imposed a 55 mile per hour speed limit on all highways it wasn't to save lives but to save fuel during the oil crisis number 76 volkswagen beetle was originally called the type 1 but because of the design it was nicknamed the beetle it was only in 1967 that the name became official number 77 the original asking price for aeron was a nice round one million dollars actually it was a real bargain because it cost five million dollars to make one number 78 the 1938 buick y job was the first ever concept car the sole purpose was to test how the public would react to buick's new design direction number 79 you're going to want to hear this one volkswagen's best-selling product is a sausage not a car the vw currywurst was meant to be produced only for the factory cafeteria but it became so popular that vw started selling them in supermarkets too it even has a part number number 80. because the porsche 959 wasn't crash tested it was illegal to drive in the usa bad news for bill gates who bought one and then had to wait 13 years for the law to change number 81 the first generation toyota previa sc is like a supercar among minivans it's a supercharged mid-engine all-wheel drive seven-seater number 82 there was a tesla roadster floating in space it was a publicity stunt by elon musk to demonstrate the payload capabilities of the spacex falcon heavy rocket number 83 when oprah gave free cars to every person in their audience back in 2004 they weren't exactly free people had to pay around six thousand dollars in federal and income taxes which led many to sell their cars right away number 84 the museum of modern art in new york had a set of mazda miata taillights on exhibit number 85 september 3rd 1976 was the day sweden turned to right-hand traffic many people were caught off guard and were confused for days so a song keep to the right svenson played on the radio to remind them to change the lanes [Music] number 86 when entering the indian car market in order to withstand the heavy use audi had to create a new louder and more resilient car horn number 87 the tires on the bugatti veyron will explode after only 15 minutes at full speed but that's okay because the fuel tank will be empty after just 12 minutes number 88 among gifts given to the pope these three really stand out ferrari mondial convertible lamborghini gallardo and a ferrari enzo the last one ever built talk about a pokemobile number 89. in the mid-70s sweden sold 1 000 volvos to north korea kim jong's government took delivery of the cars but never paid for them sweden still sends the bill to north korea twice a year number 90. chevy's biggest small block v8 is larger than the smallest big block v8 number 91 porsche 959 an 80 supercar has a low speed gear for off-road use number 92 ford pinto's radio ad had a tagline pinto leaves you with that warm feeling the tagline was removed after it was discovered that pinto would burst into flames when rear-ended pinto leaves you with that warm foam feeling number 93 renault aventine aventine means ahead of time which is ironic since the car's launch was delayed because of some engineering problems number 94 lexus had to put a digital rev counter in the lfa because the analog needle couldn't keep up with how fast its v10 engine can rev number 95 mitsubishi uk puts an fq and then a number of horsepower badge on their evos when the japanese asked what the fq stands for they were pleased to hear that it meant fine quality what it really meant was get quick number 96 bob marley owned a bmw because the initials matched the name of his reggae band bob marley and the whalers number 97 according to hashtags on instagram chevy impala is the most tattooed car ever which makes sense when you think of the ink loving low rider community number 98 all four tires on an average family saloon are only touching around 100 square inches of the road or around as much as your two feet placed next to each other number 99 only six percent of all cars sold in japan are not made in japan number 100 we all think that alfa romeo's gtv 6 is pretty but giorgito giugiaro its designer doesn't agree jajaro was so angry about the changes made to his original design that he took legal action to stop alfa romeo from ever using his name in relation to the car and finally number 101 the grand tour show was almost called nigel because the show needed a name and nigel is a name something tells me this is jeremy's idea [Music] jeff [Music] and cut

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Published: Sun Oct 18 2020