Facts about cars


BMW facts

April 11, 2012 | In: Facts about cars

BMW stands for Bavaria Motor Works, in English. In German, it’s Bayerische Motoren Werke. I’m sure you all recognize one if you see it. It’s one of the world’s most powerful stock cars. The BMW factory was founded in1916, inMunich,Germany. It was...

What do we think when we hear about a muscle car? I relate muscle cars to hundreds of horsepower, light weight, all under the hood of a classic 1960s, 1970s car. The term Muscle Car wasn't even used until the late 1970s, in the 1960s there were often...

We all know that the Greenhouse Effect is a problem that humanity has to confront in the coming years. This major part of the global warming problem has its roots on the petrol based motors that practically rule the world. Petrol driven motors ultimately...

Classic car market does not seem at all affected by the crisis. Aston Martin DB4 GT cars manufactured in 1963, in superb condition, was sold for one million dollars at an auction organized last weekend, the American city of Phoenix, in...

Luca di Montezemolo, Fiat's chairman, announced that Ferrari will unveil at the Geneva Motor Show, a hybrid version of the model 599 GTB Fiorano - a first for the most famous sports car manufacturer. Ferrari enters into the world of car...

The German inventor Gottlieb Daimler is generally credited with building the first practical motorcycle in 1885. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that in 2000, 631 motorcyclists were saved by wearing their...

The airbag Inventor is considered the American Allen Breed . Breed invented his first sensor and safety system in 1968: this was the world's first electromechanical automotive air bag system of its kind. Air bags comprise two major types: frontal...

Volkswagen means "people's car" in German. In 1947, Volkswagen signed a deal to export cars to the Netherlands, and it was then that the car, now known as the Volkswagen Beetle became, available to the general public. The Volkswagen Golf has been...

Enzo Ferrari is the founder of the Ferrari range of cars . Apart from the mobile, Ferrari also has perfumes, sunglasses and laptop computers under its brand name. The horse icon was designed by a Turin based company Cerrato and was engraved by...

The first Mercedes-Benz brand name vehicles were produced in 1926, following the merger of Karl Benz's and Gottlieb Daimler's companies into the Daimler-Benz company. The Mercedes-Benz motto is “Das Beste oder Nichts” meaning “the best or...

The first known automobile was built in 1668, it was a two foot long steam powered model constructed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian Jesuit preis Initially cars were steered with a tiller. Steering wheels were first introduced in 1898 by a Panhard &...

Bugatti was founded in Molsheim (1909), France, as a manufacturer of high performance automobiles by Ettore Bugatti, an Italian man described as an eccentric genius. With the price tag of ? € 1.28 million ? £1,14 million$1,70 million Bugatti...