http://mocomi.com/ presents: Fun facts on cars.
Interesting facts about Cars
Nuts and Bolts
1. 165,000 cars are produced every day.
2. There are more than thirty thousand parts in a car.
3. At a speed of 95 km/hr in your car, you would reach the moon in six months and in another 150 years, you would reach the sun.
4. Sugarcane produces the car fuel ethanol.
Firsts
5. Levers were first used to drive a car, and not steering wheels.
6. The dashboard was first built on a horse carriage, and it would prevent the driver from getting muddy by the horse’s trotting and splashing mud all over.
7. The first set of car tires was white.
8. Roads were first built for cyclists to use.
9. Jamshedji Tata was the first Indian to buy a car.
Records
10. The lowest car is the Flatmobile and is only 19 inches high.
11. The longest car is a Cadillac limousine, and is 100 feet long and has 26 tires.
12. The most expensive car was the Bugatti Royale Kellner Coupe and sold at $8.7 million.
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