Interesting Facts about Cars Now most of us know the major brands of cars in the market, but do you know who invented the first ever car? Learn more facts like these and improve your knowledge. The word “automobile” is a mixture of the French word ‘auto’ which means self and “mobile” which means moving. The first car was invented in the year 1672 by Ferdinand Verbiest. The first cars did not have steering wheels. Drivers steered with a lever. The first engine powered car was built in Mannheim, Germany by Karl Benz in 1885. The first gasoline automobile was made in 1885 by Karl Friedrich of Germany. The fastest time that was taken to remove a car engine and replacing it with a new one was 42 seconds. This historic incident occurred on 21st November 1985 and the car was a Ford Escort. The windshield wipers which are an important component of every car was introduced by a woman. It’s a known fact that top fuel engines accelerate up to 5 g from standing start. The nitromethane injection gives you 6000 BHP. The most crowded roads in Europe can be founded in the country of Luxembourg with 570 cars per 1000 people. The first Japanese car to be manufactured in the US was the Honda Accord in November 1982. The laws and regulations on car speeding started in 1865 when laws for speed were developed in UK. The law was known as “Locomotive Act” and it was developed to restrict the speed of horse less vehicles to 2 mph in towns and 4 mph in the country side. In the year 1925, a Ford automobile would cost only $625. Ford Motor Company only made 107 models of the Ford GT40 of which 7 were on road cars. The world’s longest traffic jam happened in 1980 between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute. The jam was 110 miles long and the most recent event of traffic hold up was stretched to 100 miles and it happened near Hamburg in Germany in 1993. The world’s cheapest car is manufactured in India and is called the “TATA Nano”. The world’s first auto insurance policy was bought in 1897 in Westfield, Massachusetts. The airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident. The most expensive car in the world is the Bugatti Veyron super sport which is priced at $2,500,000. The world’s most produced car is the Toyota Corolla. More than 32 million units have been sold since its introduction in 1966.
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