Interesting facts about cars

Let's look at the history of the auto industry in the United States, which has for many years. Here are some interesting facts that you perhaps did not know.

1. Who is the world's many trails, one better than the other - they are all of varying complexity and length. But have you ever thought, when and where there was the very first track? A first for the racing track was built in the United States, Indianapolis. It was called the Motor Speedway, and its construction took three million paving stones. And the first race on this track took place in 1930. The speed of the winner was then little more than 160 kilometers per hour. It is now we can easily find the desired auto parts for BMW in Moscow, when suddenly the fault of the bad roads, something breaks. And what was rolling on a paved road at a speed of 160 km / h? For us, the speed may not be sky-high, but not at that time, so take off his hat before the rider won the first highway in the United States.

2. Remember the "bug"? Cult car Volkswagen Beetle, which is sold worldwide in more than a million copies, only 330 people have bought in the first year. It's amazing what he did not like the motorists? Most likely, he just showed up at the wrong place at the wrong time. But fortunately, we were lucky enough to witness the sunrise on the podium, and maybe even the owners of this funny cars.

3. Who says that women do not like cars? In 2001, 60 percent of all cars purchased women, spending in total account for more than 65 million dollars. In 80 percent of cases in deciding whether to buy a new car the woman involved. Now no one is surprised that a woman buys a Suzuki auto parts in Moscow, while her husband cooks dinner.

4. Most Rolls Royce cars per capita in all - in Hong Kong. Happy Hong Kongers.

5. Gauge fuel tank appeared only in 1920. Prior to this it was necessary to look inside with a candle or throw a lighted match to see what is there - in the dark tank ...

6. The average speed on motorways of Los Angeles was 60 miles per hour in 1972 (approximately 100 km / h). Ten years have passed, and because of the huge traffic jams average speed dropped to 17 miles per hour (approximately 28 km / h). In just ten years, the inhabitants of Los Angeles of aces turned into a snail on the road. However, it is possible to suspect that a similar fate befell the residents of all the major cities in the world.

7 Hurry to buy spare parts for Renault in Moscow, to repair their cars and ride on the vast expanses of Russia. The average American spends two weeks of his life, standing at a traffic light, a red light. Jam with the count does not go.

8. In order to pass on all the roads of America, you have to travel at a speed of 160 km / h for more than four years.