These Are Your Favorite Automotive Fun Facts – Jalopnik

Cars are such quirky characters. There’s a lot to find out about them, and so little time on this mortal life to soak up all the pieces there may be to know. Sigh. But sufficient of my early-onset winter ennui! You guys gave me some enjoyable juicy information to ponder, and now you are going to hear all about them. 

I’ll admit, although, a few of y’all put up stuff that was simply plain improper. Seek knowledge outdoors of the Google AI abstract. I weeded these out and determined to share my favourite true entries to my query of the day: What’s Your Favorite Automotive Fun Fact? Will repeating these information get you laid at events? Probably not. Will they let your fellow automotive folks know that your mother was additionally down with the Tylenol? Definitely. 

Kingsford Charcoal has its origins with Ford Motor Company. Early Ford vehicles used fairly a little bit of wooden for wheels, dashboards, and so on. Henry Ford needed to make use of the scrap wooden and sawdust to supply charcoal. It is a typical false impression that the “-ford” in Kingsford got here from Henry Ford himself, however it’s only a coincidence as a result of Lumber Entrepreneur Edward Kingsford (and first cousin to Ford) helped Henry Ford arrange his lumber provide and sawmill. The historical past is fascinating and contains Thomas Edison, the primary ever charcoal briquette patent, and the delivery of a city:

Ford dealerships used to provide away luggage of charcoal in the summertime time to get folks into the showrooms

From Stephen., Jimboy II, The Sequel

NHRA Top Fuel dragsters use one thing like 15 gallons of nitromethane for every run. It’s pumped so quick into the cylinders that your complete engine is continually on the verge of hydrolock. If you had all that gasoline in 5 gal buckets, kicking them over would not empty them as quick because the gasoline pumps might.

From Aerogrp

That the Toyota GT1 exploited a loophole within the racing guidelines that the automotive needed to have a sure capability trunk, so that they argued that when empty, the gasoline tank had the required capability to rely as a trunk. Nobody wrote down that the trunk needed to be accessible lol.

From Atomic

The world’s largest producer of tires is LEGO.

From Paul R

Oh boy. I’ve an enormous checklist of fully ineffective automotive information I picked up right here, there and in all places. Some of my favourites:

Alpina makes use of 20 spoke wheels as a result of it meant they did not have to change the wheel designs between 4 and 5 stud lug patterns (20 is divisible by each 4 and 5)

The Dallara Stradale takes its tail lights from the Audi Q7 (4M), however as a substitute of taking the primary items it makes use of the auxillary items within the bumper that activate when the tailgate is opened on the Q7

Multiple Daewoo fashions had been rejected designs for Fiat or Jaguar

The headlights for the Dodge Viper Mk1 had been initially meant for the BMW Z1

The first automotive to have Apple CarPlay was the Ferrari FF

Ultimate Green on the Ford Focus RS Mk2 is called after BP Ultimate who had been sponsoring the Focus WRC on the time

Hyundais have 4 dots on the steering wheel as a result of that is the letter H in morse code

The Lamborghini Reventón was provided with the gated handbook from the Murciélago, however ALL coupé AND roadster patrons opted for the e-gear, which means there is not a single manufacturing unit gated handbook Reventón

There’s a Nissan Juke Nismo RS that’s based mostly on the Mk4 Renault Clio RS, with the important thing distinction being that the Juke was provided with a handbook gearbox and the Clio wasn’t

The 1998 Peugeot 206 remains to be being produced in Iran immediately

The Subaru Impreza 22B takes its title from ‘555’ in hexadecimal code, a nod to the tobacco model 555 that sponsored Colin McRae throughout his time at Subaru

I might go on 😀

From Loek Marcus

Once your automotive makes it to ~284,000 miles, it has coated the imply distance to the moon (the moon’s orbit, being elliptical, adjustments a bit). So, it is best to in all probability give your automotive a pleasant pat on the hood and say: “Good job.”

From semica altoid

Nissan S-Cargo is intentionally styled to resemble a snail because of the pronounciation of its title being much like escargot. I simply love when automotive makers typically make cute trying vehicles and never all the pieces is about efficiency or practicality or luxurious.

From fabey

By 1900, electrical vehicles had market share of over 30%. Demise of electrical vehicles within the early a part of the twentieth century had many, MANY, components, and a minor however telling one is the truth that electrical vehicles had been thought of female.

Another cause electrical vehicles took so lengthy to turn into main-stream was the invention of the nuclear submarine. Navies all the world over, particularly the US Navy, had been pouring tons of cash into battery analysis for submarines within the 40’s and 50’s, solely to have the nuclear submarine come alongside and make all of that pointless. Probably would have had superior batteries many years in the past in any other case.

From JBJB and Crucial Taunt

I’ve a couple of

The horse on Ferrari and Porsche badges is identical horse

The BMW badge is NOT a propeller

There are tons of of on-line searches for “KN car” (actually, Kia?)

On the underside of Ford vehicles, it says “Wrong Side Up”, so you are screwed.

The Hyundai badge is supposed to appear like the client and vendor shaking arms.

On BMW SUVs, it says no matter kind it’s behind the b pillar.

Racoons attacked a cybertruck considering it was a dumpster.

On the Lamborghini LM002, there may be secret storage underneath the seats.

From Mustangmania

It’s at all times been the easter egg within the final gen Chrysler 200. The heart console mat (underneath the cupholders and shift dial) has the Detroit skyline on it…with the GM Renaissance constructing omitted

From Greasetank

The fastened headlights on a Lamborghini Diablo are from a Nissan 300ZX is certainly one of my favorites. How many supercars that utilized bus taillights is one other nice one.

From cintocrunch1

A 1980 Countach had about the identical 0-60 time as a V6 Camry does immediately.

From SimplySomeManYouKnow