Car Facts No.5

1.Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche are all owned by Volkswagen.

2.It is a criminal offense to drive around Russia in a dirty car.

3.There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.

4.Many of Volkswagen’s cars are named after various types of wind. For example, The Passat, is German for “trade wind,” Polo is German for “polar Winds,” and the Jetta means “jet stream.”

5.A man in Springfield, Massachusetts drove his 1928 Rolls-Royce Roadster for an impressive 82 years.

6.The first person killed by a car in America was Henry Hale Bliss (1830-1899) in 1899. He was leaving a streetcar in New York City when an electric powered taxicab hit him and crushed his head and chest.

7.The first electric traffic lights were launched in 1927.

8.The first Ford cars made actually had Dodge engines.

9.Airbags move at up to 4500 miles per hour and deploy within 40 milliseconds of a crash. They are designed to deploy at an impact speed of 19 miles per hour.

10.The largest speeding fine ever was $1,000,000. It was given to a Swedish man who was going 180 mph in Switzerland, where fines are proportional to income.