A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
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Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.
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It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.
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It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce...and 13 hours to build a Toyota.
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More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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