Car Facts

The size of a blue whale's heart is that of a small car.

When a car going 60 miles per hour in one direction gets hit by a mosquito going one mile per hour in the opposite direction, the car will slow down one-millionth of a mile per hour.

The used in the popular show The Dukes of Hazards were 1969 Dodge Chargers.

In New York State, it is still illegal to shoot a rabbit from a moving trolley car.

There was a false floor fitted in Adolf Hitler's Mercedes to make him look taller when he stood up.

Racecar driver Lee Petty once left a pitstop and did a full lap with a pit crew member still on the hood.

The first German car to be built solely outside of Germany is the BMW Z3.

At 120 miles per hour, a Formula One car generates so much down force that it can drive upside down on the roof of a tunnel.
NASCAR stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing.

An average of 51 cars a year overshoot and drive into the canals of Amsterdam.

It would take 29 million years for a car traveling 100 miles per hour to reach the nearest star.

Adolf Hitler was one of the people that was responsible for the creation of the Volkswagen Beetle.

Waiting time to get a permit for a car on Catalina Island, California is eight to ten years. Most residents drive golf carts.

The world's widest road is the Monumental Axis in Brazil, where 160 cars can drive side by side.

A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

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