 he year 1886 is considered to be the birth of the modern car.

In that year, German

inventor Carl Benz built a modern automobile called the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.[4]
 Sir Alec Guinness warned James Dean one week before he died not to get into his new
Porsche 550 Spyder or “You’ll be dead in it by this time next week.”[15]
 There are currently over 1 billion cars on the earth.[16]
 The United States has more cars than any other country in the world, at 300
million. China comes in a distant second, at 78 million.[22]
 Holding a remote car key to your head doubles its range because the human skull acts as
an amplifier[15]
 One out of 4 cars in the world come from China.[24]

Good vibrations (contrastaddict / iStock)

 The exhaust frequency of the Maserati Quattroporte is 333 HZ, which is a frequency level
that supposedly stimulates the sexual arousal in women.[26]
 Inventor Mary Anderson (1866-1953) invented the first effective windshield wiper. They
were initially considered a distraction.[15]
 In Christopher Nolan’s film Batman, Bruce Wayne drives a Lamborghini Murcielago. In
Spanish, Murcielago means, “bat.”[15]
 For many cars, the “new car smell” is actually toxic. It is composed of over 50 volatile
organic compounds.[11]
 The BMW logo derives from the company’s origin as an airplane manufacturer. The now
iconic blue and white “target sign” represents a spinning white propeller against a blue sky.[12]
 A single car has about 30,000 parts. About 80% of a car is recyclable.[9]
 The Hennessey Venom GT is the fastest car in the world at 265.7 mph.[15]
 Approximately 75% of the cars that Rolls Royce has produced in its history are still on
the road.[15]
 Washington D.C. has the worst traffic in the United States, with commuters waiting 82
hours a year in traffic.[6]

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day
Weekend.
- Doug Larson

 The last car with a cassette player was the Ford Crown Vic in 2011.[15]
 The names of all Lamborghini’s cars are derived from the world of bullfighting. The
Diablo and Murcielago are both the names of famous bulls, while the Estoque is the style of
sword that Matadors use.[12]
 The heaviest limousine weighs over 50,000 pounds. It has 3 lounges, a bar, and can carry
up to 40 people.[15]
 The word “car” is from the Latin carrum, which originally meant a “two-wheeled Celtic
war chariot.” The Latin is further derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kers- “to
run.”[3]
 A car is stolen in the United States every 45 seconds.[28]

A steering wheel gives a driver more control over the vehicle and requires less energy than a lever
 The first cars didn’t have a steering wheel. People had to steer them with a lever.[15]
 A dashboard was initially a piece of wood attached to a horse drawn carriage to prevent
mud from splattering up from the horses and onto the driver.[16]
 The “Flatmobile” holds the record for the world’s lowest street-legal car at just 19 inches
high.[15]
 The most often stolen car in the United States is the Honda Accord. Rounding out the top
five are the Honda Civic, the Ford Pickup (full size), the Chevrolet Pickup (Full Size), and
the Toyota Camry.[28]
 Approximately 5 months of a person’s life is spent waiting in a car at red lights.[10]
 About 165,000 cars are produced each day, which is equivalent 60 million cars per year.[24]
 Daniel Craig, as a reward for playing James Bond, can take any Aston Martin from the
factory for the rest of his life.[15]
 Lamborghini gave the Italian state the world’s fastest police car in 2008. It had a video
surveillance system, gun racks, a defibrillator, and an organ transplant cooler. They crashed it
a year later.[15]
 In 1668, Ferdinand Verbiest, a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China, constructed
the first known automobile. It was just 2-feet long and steam powered.[4]
 U.S. highway congestion costs over $160 billion a year, including wear and tear on
vehicles, gas burned while idling, and lost productivity.[6]
 More men than women die each year in car accidents, most likely because men
typically drive more miles than women and are more likely to engage in riskier driving
practices.[7]

Men drive about 40 percent more miles per year than women

 In 2014, over 87 million cars were produced around the world. In China alone, over 14
million cars were manufactured. Japan and Germany rounded out the top three car-
producing countries, at over 7 million and 5 million, respectively.[24]
 Chevrolet introduced the first car radio in 1922, with a huge price tag of $200. Many
safety agencies believed the radio was distracting and sought to ban them from cars.[4]
 If the odds of dying from all possible causes are 1:1, the odds of dying from a motor
vehicle crash in the United States is 1:112.[27]
 The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902. At this time, most cars could only drive up
to 45 mph.[3][16]
 The best selling car of all time is the Toyota Corolla, with over 30 million sales since
2009. One Corolla is sold every 40 seconds around the world.[23]
 The most expensive street-legal car in the world is the Koenigsegg CCXR Trevita, at $4.8
million. It is literally coated in diamonds. There are just 3 in existence.[8]
 Hyundai Tucson offers a special “The Walking Dead” edition. It contains a zombie
survival kit, in case of an apocalypse.[15]
 The BMW M5 engine is so quiet that fake engine noises are played through the speakers
in order to remind buyers of their cars’ performance levels.[15]

Bertha Benz was the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance
 The first long distance car driver in the world is Bertha Benz (1849-1944), the wife and
business partner of automobile inventor Carl Benz.[4]
 Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati, and Porsche are all owned by Volkswagen.
[15]

 It is a criminal offense to drive around Russia in a dirty car.[15]

 There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.[15]
 Many of Volkswagen’s cars are named after various types of