Ten quite interesting facts about cars and motoring
- You can play the computer game ‘pong’ in a Saab. The game is included in the on-board computer
- There’s a £30 fine for using a car horn whilst stationary in the UK
- There are 1 billion cars in active use across the world today
- The iconic Rolls-Royce ornament is called ‘The Spirit of Ecstasy’ and, in 2008, a special edition diamond-encrusted version was designed. The asking price: a cool $200,000
- The fine for the first motoring offence in the UK was issued to petrol engine pioneer John Henry Knight in 1895 for not having a license. The fine was 5 shillings
- The first coin-operated parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935
- The height of the world’s lowest street-legal car is 19 inches. The ‘Flatmobile’ was built by Perry Watkins from Buckinghamshire
- The average British driver will spend 99 days stuck in traffic over the course of their lifetime
- You can double the range of a remote car key, by holding it to your head. This is because the human skull acts as an amplifier
- The largest speeding fine ever was one million dollars and was given to a Swedish man, clocked for doing 180mph in Switzerland, where fines are proportionate to income
Filed under: Cars & Motoring
Friday, January 31st, 2014 at 3:44 pm
