So You Think You Know About Cars?

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW ABOUT CARS? Think you know about cars because you know when to change a tire or which cars are the most expensive on the market? BET YOU DON'T KNOW THESE FACTS ABOUT CARS GRAB THE ... LEVER? The first cars had levers instead of steering wheels. DON'T BE THAT AWKWARD FOURTH WHEEL Invented by Nicholas Cugnot in 1769, the first self-propelled car had only three wheels. SUPPLY & DEMAND 165,000 cars are produced every day– over 60 million per year! 70M 58.2 M 60M 52.7 M 49.9 M 59.9 M 50M 44.5 M 53.2 M 41.2 M. 41.3M 46.8 M 47.7 M 40M 41.9 M 39.7 M 39.8 M 30M '99 '00 '01 '02 '03 '04 '05 '06 '07 '08 '09 10 '11 YEAR THANK A WOMAN FOR DRIVING VISIBILITY Mary Anderson patented her invention of windshield wipers in 1903. IT COULD HAVE BEEN A VACATION INSTEAD The average driver will have spent a total of two weeks of their life sitting at traffic lights. AN ENTIRE The typical American spends: WORK WEEK! 38 HOURS a year in traffic. NOW THAT'S FAST! An airbag inflates 40 milliseconds after a crash. THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG... The first car radio was invented in 1929. IMAGINE PUTTING THAT TOGETHER? Number of parts in the average car 30,000 TURN UP THE VOLUME! 90% of drivers admit that they sing while driving. HOW DO THEY FIT THEM ALL? Most of the world's vehicles are designed and built in the small country of Japan. SPEED DEMON The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902 – a time when cars could only accelerate to 45 mph! THAT'S A LOT! 1 Billion cars are currently in use on the planet. COUNTRIES WITH THE MOST CARS Passenger cars refer to road motor vehicles, other than two-wheelers, intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than nine people (including the driver). TOP 10 PASSENGER CARS PER 1,000 PEOPLE 10 COUNTRY 2011 COUNTRY 2011 Luxembourg 667.6 Canada 590.1 Iceland 645.7 Lithuania 565.3 USA 617.8 8. Australia 558.7 4 Italy 611.1 9. Finland 549.1 Malta 594.2 10 New Zealand 536.1 COUNTRIES WITH THE LEAST CARS BOTTOM 10 PASSENGER CARS PER 1,000 PEOPLE COUNTRY 2011 COUNTRY 2011 10 Indonesia 48.2 Vietnam 17.7 Egypt 43.6 Nigeria 15.3 Philippines 30.1 3 Kenya 12.9 Peru 29.2 India 12.5 Ghana 19.2 Pakistan 11.0 LOTS OF CARS ARE RECYCLED Of all consumer products on the market, cars are recycled the most. TALK ABOUT A STATUS SYMBOL The first car for sale was Mercedes-Benz in 1887. SAFETY FIRST Seatbelts weren't standard car accessories until 1963, and rear seat belts not until 1965. It wasn't until 1984 that New York became the first state to legally require people to wear those seatbelts. SUCH LUXURY! Hong Kong has the most Rolls Royces per capita. THAT'S A LOT OF NICE CARS Number of cars made by Ferrari every day: 14 GROSS! 16% of car owners don't wash their cars. Ever. HOW MANY OF THESE DID YOU KNOW? Yeah, that's what we thought. Now go impress your friends! leeauto.com LEE SOURCES: http://www.factslides.com/s-Cars http://www.worldometers.info/cars/ http://www.safeny.ny.gov/seat-ndx.htm http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blanderson.htm http://my.carid.com/featured/stories/20-astonishing-facts-about-cars http://www.doyouknowgk.com/2013/03/interesting-facts-about-cars.html http://www.businessvehiclesource.com/articles/Littleknownfactsandtrivia.pdf http://oddrandomthoughts.com/ten-strange-facts-you-didnt-know-about-cars/ http://www.helgilibrary.com/indicators/index/passenger-cars-per-1000-people http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.VEH.PCAR.P3?order=wbapi_data_value_2009+wbapi_data_value +wbapi_data_value-first&sort=asc AUTO MALLS NO. OF CARS PRODUCED