A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
16
A car operates at maximum economy, gas-wise, at speeds between 25 and 35 miles per hour.
-4
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
More steel in the United States is used to make bottle caps than to manufacture automobile bodies.
55
The United States produces enough plastic film annually to cover the entire state of Texas.
13
In 1998, Sony accidently sold 700,000 camcorders that had the technology to see through people's clothes.
88
The life boat was patented in 1845!
29
A small airplane can fly backwards.
75