Our
vehicles are an important part of our lives.
They’re our main means of transportation, giving us access to the world
around us. Some individuals enjoy taking
their car apart to see how it works; others enjoy riding with the top down on a
summer day. Either way, they’re a fun
addition to our daily routine. In
today’s blog, we’re feeding off of your love of cars and interesting facts by
providing some cool info not known to the general public. Thanks to our friends over at
crazy-facts.com, we have a list of facts for you. Enjoy and feel free to add your own!
· Top fuel dragsters
accelerate at up to 5g from standing start. The nitromethane injection produces
6000 BHP.
· The fastest time for
removing a car engine, and replacing it is 42 seconds for a Ford Escort, on 21
November 1985.
· An airbag moves up to
4500 mph within a second when triggered. A force of 200g is generated. They are
designed to explode at an impact speed of 19 mph. The bag inflates within 40
milliseconds of a crash.
· The Ferrari Formula 1
team is unique in the fact that it produces both chassis and engines for its
cars.
· Ferrari makes a maximum
of 14 cars every day.
· There were only 107
models of the Ford GT40 made of which only 7 were road cars.
· The Worlds longest
traffic hold-up was 110 miles long, between Paris and Lyon on the French
Autoroute in 1980. A more recent contender for the title was a 100 mile long
traffic Jam, near Hamburg in Germany in 1993.
· The first known
automobile was built in 1668, it was a two foot long steam powered model
constructed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian Jesuit preist.
· Luxembourg has the most
crowded roads in Europe with 570 cars per 1,000 people.
· The first car race ever
seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from
Chicago to Evanston. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was
71.5 miles per hour.
· In 1924 a Ford automobile
cost $265.
· The first auto insurance
policy is purchased in Westfield, MA, in 1897.
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