25 Fun & Interesting Car Facts

1. 1 car is stolen every 33 seconds
2. The first car for sale in America was the Curved Dash Oldsmobile priced at $650.00.
3. In 1924 a Ford automobile cost $265.00.
4. It would take about 157 days to drive to the moon at 60 mph.
5. Most car horns beep in the key of “F”.
6. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration made it the law in 1968 that seat belts be put in all newly manufactured cars.
7. The first auto insurance policy was purchased in 1897.
8. On 21 November, 1985 someone actually removed & replaced a car engine in a Ford Escort...in 42 seconds!
9. The first Japanese car in the United States was the Honda Accord manufactured in November 1982.
10. 55 percent of the cars in the world in 1916, were Model T Fords
11. An airbag moves up to 4500 mph within a second when triggered. They are designed to explode at an impact speed of 19 mph and they inflate within 40 milliseconds of a crash.
12. The first Porsche 356 was introduced in 1948
13. Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.
14. There were only 107 models of the Ford GT40 made of which only 7 were road cars.
15. The first car radio was invented in 1929.
16. Luxembourg has the most crowded roads in Europe with 570 cars per 1,000 people.
17. The first cars used a lever instead of a steering wheel.
18. In 1938 Buick introduced the first electric turn signals
19. Traffic lights were introduced in 1914 and were manually operated with an officer controlling them from a booth near the intersection.
20. The first car race in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895, 6 cars lined up. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71.5 miles per hour.
21. The first gas gauge appeared in cars in 1922.
22. The world’s cheapest car is Tata’s Nano in India about $2500.00
23. Year after year the Honda Accord tops the list as the most frequent car stolen in the U.S. along with the Cadillac Escalade, Honda Civic, Toyota Camry and Ford F-150.

24. 173 new inventions by women for cars had been reported in 1923. 2 of them were an electric engine starter and a carburetor
25. The automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world today.

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