1.The First Japanese car in the United States was the Honda Accord manufactured in November 1982.
2.Chevrolet Impala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.
3.The first cars used a lever instead of a steering wheel.
4.The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130.
5.An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.
6.The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. It was about 110 miles long.
7.The first auto insurance policy was purchased in 1897 in Westfield, MA.
8.Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.
9.Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.
10.The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769.
It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler.The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h.
11.The first self-propelled car was used by the French Army to move cannons.
12.Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car.The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.
13.In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars.
Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.
14.The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany.
15.Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine.
16.Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.
17.In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale.
18.The first cars did not have steering wheels. Drivers steered with a lever.
19.The New York City Police Department used bicycles to pursue speeding motorists in 1898.
20.The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902.
21.In 1916, 55 percent of the cars in the world were Model T Fords, a record that has never been beaten.
22.The first gas gauge appeared in cars in 1922.
23.In 1923, 173 new inventions by women for cars had been reported.
24.Among these inventions were a carburetor and an electric engine starter.
25.The first car radio was invented in 1929.
26.Buick introduced the first electric turn signals in 1938.
27.The Peanuts characters were first animated in 1957 for a Ford Fairlaine automobile commercial.
28.Most American car horns beep in the key of F.
29.The automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world today.
30. Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.
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