![\"Benz](\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/fastfacts\/files\/2017\/04\/Benz-Voiturette-1897.jpg\")
<\/a>Benz Voiturette 1897<\/em><\/p>\nMercedes Benz cars are named after Mercedes Jellinek<\/a>.<\/p>\n The first neon sign was made in 1923 for a Packard dealership.<\/p>\n Studebaker was founded in 1852 as a wagon maker. In 1902 they launched an electric vehicle and in 1904 a gasoline-driven car.<\/p>\n In 1955, the Ford Thunderbird outsold the Chev Corvette 24 to one:\u00a0 16,155 vs 673. The Thunderbird was produced until 1957; the Corvette is still in production.<\/p>\n In 1969, the last Corvair, an Olympic Gold Monza Coupe number #6000, was painted gold.<\/p>\n School buses in the United States used to be Omaha Orange but now are Chrome Yellow.<\/p>\n The raised reflective dots in the middle of highways are called Botts dots.<\/p>\n The San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments.<\/p>\n In the early 1960’s, Porsche manufactured farm tractors.<\/p>\n At the beginning of the millennium Hong Kong was the city with the most Rolls Royces per capita.<\/p>\n In the first decade-and-a-half of the 21 Century, the Volkswagen Group generated almost two-thirds of its profits in China.<\/p>\n 75% of Honda vehicles purchased in the US are manufactured in North America.<\/p>\n It takes six months to build a Rolls Royce… and 13 hours to build a Toyota.<\/p>\n A modern car generates 20 times less pollution than a car produced in the 1960s.<\/p>\n It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.<\/p>\n California has issued at least 6 drivers licenses to people named Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n Car accidents rise 10% during the first week of daylight savings time.<\/p>\n It’s illegal to own a red car in Shanghai, China.<\/p>\n In Athens, Greece, a driver’s license can be taken away by law if the driver is deemed either unbathed or poorly dressed.<\/p>\n In Haiti, only 1 out of every 200 people own a car.<\/p>\n There are more fatal car accidents in July than any other month.<\/p>\n About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car.<\/p>\n Whale oil was used in automobile transmissions as late as 1973.<\/p>\n According to The Millionaire Next Door<\/a> by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko, 80% of millionaires drive used cars.<\/p>\n In the United States, deaf people have safer driving records than hearing people.<\/p>\n Electric cars were introduced in 1896 and by the end of the century almost 50% of motorcars worldwide were electric.<\/p>\n Yet, by 1905, 80% of cars were petrol driven and by 1920 the electric car was, well, almost history.<\/p>\n Production of the Tesla Roadster, the first modern electric sports car, was started in 2008 and ended in 2012. in 2016, Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk admitted<\/a> that the car was a disaster.<\/p>\n By 2016, one in seven new BMWs sold in the USA was an electric vehicle.<\/p>\n The first auto race in the United States, in Chicago in 1895, was won by J. Frank Duryea at an average speed of 7.5mph (12 km\/h).<\/p>\n![\"Ford](\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/fastfacts\/files\/2017\/04\/Ford-Thunderbird-1955.jpg\")
Ford Thunderbird 1955<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Tesla](\"https:\/\/didyouknow.org\/fastfacts\/files\/2017\/04\/Tesla-Roadster.jpg\")
<\/a>Tesla Roadster 2008 – 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n