Car Facts

You're more likely to die in a car accident driving to buy a lottery ticket than you are to win the Powerball jackpot.

Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the U.S. to have sex is the car.

A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star (to our solar system)

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.

The first Ford cars had Dodge engines.

More Americans have died in car accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.

About 37% of millionaires buy used cars, and fewer than 25% drive current-year models—most prefer practical brands like Toyota, Honda, and Ford over luxury vehicles.

A single gallon of gasoline contains enough energy to move a 3,000-pound car about 30 miles, equivalent to the work output of roughly 500 horses running for one minute.

Contrary to popular belief, putting sugar in a car's gas tank will NOT ruin its engine.

In Haiti, only about 1 out of every 260 people owns a car—one of the lowest car ownership rates in the world.

The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.

Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!

Steve Jobs's secretary - a single mom - told him she was late because her car would not start. That afternoon, he walked into her office and tossed her a set of keys. They were for a brand new Jaguar. Cost in 1981: $35,000. That is roughly $123,000 today, more than twice the median household income of the time. Here, do not be late anymore, he said.

About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!

Hong Kong has more Rolls Royces per person than anywhere else in the world.

You can quickly cool down a hot car that's been sitting in the sun by rolling down the window on one side and repeatedly opening and closing the door on the opposite side. This pumps out the superheated air and can drop the interior temperature by 10-20°F in under a minute.

Americans buying a Volvo can get a free holiday to Sweden to test drive their new car. All costs, including airfare and shipment of the car, are covered by the Volvo Overseas Delivery program.

A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.

Mackinac Island, Michigan, has banned cars since 1898!

In the late 1990s, a South African inventor created the 'Blaster,' a car-mounted flamethrower designed to repel carjackers, which briefly became legal to sell due to a loophole in self-defense laws.