Some curiosities in the automotive world

Posted in October 31st, 2011
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he fastest time has been achieved to remove and replace a car engine was 42 seconds and was performed in a Ford Escort, on November 21, 1985.

An airbag jumps to about 300 km per hour, and in less than a second when activated. It takes about 20 milliseconds to inflate and is designed to operate in an impact of 30 km per hour.

The team of Ferrari Formula 1 is unique in that it produces entirely factor chassis and engines for their cars.

Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars a day.

The biggest traffic jam ever known was about 176 miles between Paris and Lyon in 1980. A backlog was most recently a little beat this record, occurred in Hamburg, Germany in 1993.

The first car was built is known in 1668, which was a steam-driven model of two feet long and was built by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian Jesuit priest.

Luxembourg has the most congested roads in Europe with 570 cars per thousand people.

The first car race ever seen in the United States, was held in Chicago in 1895. The route of the race was from Chicago to Evanston, and Frank Duryea won with an average speed of 115 km per hour.

In 1924, a Ford car cost about 200 Euros.

Closing the car door suddenly, it became punishable by law in Switzerland.