10 interesting facts about cars

1 Brand British sports car AC Cobra patented exhaust sound of the cars. And all because the technical director of the company is convinced that the sound of the exhaust system of the car - it is the second after a design characteristic that defines individuality sports car as top speed and acceleration from standstill to 100 km / h at all about the same.

2 Did you know that the original model of GAZ M-20 should not be called "Victory" and "Motherland". However, this name was changed after Stalin's ironic question: "Well, how do we have a homeland?".

3 Did you know that the first number plates were not on the cars, and horse-drawn carriages? And then when the streets drove cars, they were also numbered. The earliest road signs were given in Munich (Germany) in 1899. This was followed by Paris - in 1900, New York City - in 1901 and London - in 1903 the first car mark in Russia was issued in 1904 in Riga, but not in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. But the beginning of the alpha characters on license plates laid in 1901 in Berlin, when a local businessman Rudolf Herzog to surprise your sweetie Johann Anchor, requested permission from the city authorities to put on the license plate numbers to the initials of the couple.

4 By the way, the Soviet "Lada" have started to sell abroad under the brand name "Harmony" because consonance first name in French, Italian and Spanish with the word "gigolo".

5 British insurance company Churchill found that straight-through muffler not only increases the capacity of the car by an average of 5%, but also impairs the driver's ears at 2-3% per year of service.

6 The longest traffic jam length of about 200 kilometers was recorded between Paris and Leon on the French motorway in 1980. Another, slightly shorter tube was formed in 1993 near Hamburg. Its length is 180 km.

7 After a flight into space, Yuri Gagarin was awarded the black "Volga" with the numbers 12-04 YUAG (flight date and initials). And the letters were lawfully produced by an index of the Moscow region where the Star City - SA. In subsequent astronauts on registered machines YUAG preserved letters and numbers also denote the date of the flight.

8 Export name of the car Lada Kalina for Finland - Lada 119, as in Finnish means Kalina crackling roar, rattle and clatter.

9 In the afterburner mode at the highest engine speeds of the order of 7000 obmin, vehicle exhaust Aston Martin Vantage heard for 6 kilometers.

10 Set Audi RS4 exhaust sound specialists engaged in the professional recording studio. According to the canons, the exhaust gases of sports cars, orchestrated the tachometer needle should be: at the bottom of deep bass, strong tenor in the middle and at the top of eccentric soprano. After recording the audio engineer noticed that the exhaust pipe - not the last item in the car, because it is through this wind instrument takes the car's voice.