1. The world’s longest traffic jam was recorded in 1980 in France on the Paris-Lyon highway. It was almost 180 km.
  2. The airbag fills with gas in just 4 milliseconds. The speed of movement of the cushion material itself during its expansion is 7200 km/h.
  3. The first automobile insurance policy was issued in 1897 in Westfield, Massachusetts.
  4. Car wipes were invented by an American woman, Mary Anderson, in 1903, and two years later she patented her invention. The first windshield wipers built into the car body appeared in 1916.
  5. In 1924, a Ford car cost $265.
  6. The Ferrari plant produces 14 cars every day.
  7. In 1916, 55% of the cars driving on the world’s roads were Ford Ts.
  8. The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902.
  9. The first road lighting system was installed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1914.
  10. The volume of the Rolls Royce Silver Spirit’s air conditioning cooling system is equivalent to the capacity of 30 household refrigerators.
  11. The fastest production car in the world, the Bugatti Veyron, takes 10 seconds to stop at a speed of 408 km/h. This device accelerates to 100 km/h in just 2.5 seconds. There are many reasons why a car as absurd as the Bugatti Veyron should not be driven at all. But he drives – and how! One of the atypical solutions used in the Veyron is to equip the car with sixteen fans. The car generates so much heat that cooling the engine with just one fan would require a cooling system the size of a pool table.
  12. To make one sports Pagani Huayra, 1,400 titanium screws are used, each of which costs $80. This means that the screws alone in this car will cost $112,000. All screws have the Pagani logo on the head.
  13. Black jazz trumpeter Miles Davis once bought a Ferrari. Immediately after this, his lawyer called the police to tell him what color the car was. Yes, just in case. What if one of the officers doesn’t like the “color” of the driver. The purpose of the lawyer’s “report” was to save Davis from possible trouble.
  14. In 2008, Lamborghini donated to the Italian police the fastest police car in the world, the Gallardo LP560-4, equipped with a set of cameras, a GPS system, as well as a defibrillator and a special “refrigerator” for transporting organs for transplantation. The car was wrecked a year later – an officer driving a Lamborghini was hit by a driver leaving a gas station.
  15. How to make a car accessible to the Indian market? Reduce the size by half and replace all the decent materials with plastic so that the car costs the same as a year’s newspaper subscription? This is one way. However, Audi used a different one. Among other things, German engineers modified…the horn to give drivers the ability to cut through the ever-present Indian traffic chaos.
  16. Legend has it that the custom armored Cadillac car used by Al Capone was later captured by American agents and used by President Roosevelt. The information, which was “exaggerated” by the major media for a long time, was in fact unreliable, which was due to dishonest advertising by one of the subsequent owners of the car, who wanted to receive a higher price for it.
  17. According to unconfirmed reports, cars worth more than $20 million were wrecked during the production of the latest James Bond film. This, of course, does not mean that the filmmakers are not saving their pennies. When they filmed Skyfall, they were so afraid of damaging a priceless 1960 Aston Martin DB5 that they decided to use a 3D printed model. Three new Aston Martins were created in 1:3 scale, and one of them replaced the original.

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