Interesting facts about cars: top 20 unexpected discoveries

Cars have firmly entered our lives, and we simply cannot imagine how we can do without them. However, how well do we know the history of the creation of machines and interesting facts about them? That Elon Musk, for example, was not the founder of the Tesla concern, and electric cars are plugged into the belt in terms of environmental friendliness ... who would you think? Horse! Read about these and other amazing facts in our selection.

1. Leonardo da Vinci is not only an outstanding artist, but also a talented inventor. For example, the first drawings of a car belong to him.

2. The first cars were powered by steam before the internal combustion engine was invented.

3. The very first fine for speeding today causes a smile, because driving over 13 km / h was considered speeding. The British policeman easily caught up with the car on a bicycle and fined the violator.

4. The largest car in the world is the Belarusian truck BELAZ 75710. Its weight is 800 tons and its height is 8 meters. The world's largest traffic jam, which is 200 kilometers long, was formed in 1980 in France.

5. The smallest car in the world is the English Peel P50. The height of this crumb was 1.2 m, width - 1 m, length - 1.34 m. Only one person could fit in such a car.

6. Elon Musk is not actually the founder of Tesla. Although, without a doubt, he is the heart and think tank of this company. The founder of the concern is Martin Eberhard.

7. It takes 18 cows to skin the interior of a Bentley Mulsanne. For most models of other brands, much less animal skin is used.

8. Most of the Rolls-Royce cars ever produced in the world are still in operation. They are actively used, then they invest large sums in repairs and again get behind the wheel of legendary cars.

9. The very first racing car was designed in 1900, with an engine power of 35 horsepower.

10. We have not imagined a trip without music for a long time. But the first radio in the car appeared only in 1930, and for its installation it was necessary to pay a lot of money - about 1/6 of the cost of the entire car.

11. Racing sports have greatly influenced the development of the automotive industry. Thanks to racing, the design of the car has changed and improved significantly.

12. Despite the fact that cars are means of transportation, it turns out that most of the time, namely 95%, they just stand.

13. The fastest car in the world at present is the Thrust SSC jet-powered car, which has a top speed of over 1229 km/h. To develop such a speed, the machine also has a second jet engine, the total power of which is 110 thousand liters. With.

14. The fastest production car in the world today is the racing Bugatti Veyron Super Sport with a speed of 434 m / h.

15. "People's" car Volkswagen became truly popular after its model VW Beetle (Volkswagen Beetle) became the most massive car in the world. There are several tens of millions of copies of this model in the world.

16. Not only Apple likes to patent any little thing in their devices.

17. For example, AC Cobra has patented the sound of an engine exhaust.

18. The first car in the USSR "Victory" did not immediately receive such a name. Initially, the producers thought to call it "Motherland", and the impetus for changing the name was Stalin's fair question: "And how much will our Motherland be?"

19. Electric cars were the first cars, and gasoline-powered cars were invented much later.

20. Back in the early twentieth century in New York, the entire fleet was made up of electric vehicles. Interestingly, electric cars are much greener than horses in terms of their carbon footprint.

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