On average, about 60 million cars are added to the Earth every year. If we take shorter time intervals, it will be 165,000 cars per day, 6875 per hour and 115 cars every minute.
Today, about one billion cars travel the Earth. Considering that 8.06 billion people live on earth as of September 2023, this is one car for eight people.
Volkswagen owns the largest number of European car brands: Volkswagen, Audi, Seat, Skoda, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, Scania and MAN.
The largest fine in the amount of one million euros was issued to an unknown person in Sweden. But the car he drove is known: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG. And the speed of the intruder was 290 km/h.
The largest mileage ever recorded on a car is 3 million miles – that's almost 5 million kilometers. Alaska resident Irwin Gordon drove so much in his two-door Volvo P1800S coupe.
The first Soviet sports car appeared in 1938. It reached speeds of up to 147.8 km/h and was equipped with a 65 horsepower engine. They called the GAZ-GL-1 sports car.
According to the official legend, the emblem of the Japanese company is an image of a stylized weaving loop. Why the weaving loop? Since the company started its activity with the production of automatic looms.