A lot of people claim that red cars actually do get nailed for speeding more often than any others. However according to one study, it turns out that the most tickets for speed in therms of colours, got the owners of white cars! The red cars were second in the study, but there’s absolutely no […]
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West Edmonton Mall in Canada is the largest shopping and entertainment centre in the world. An it also holds the record for the largest parking facility, which can accommodate up to 20,000 cars. The mall has more than 800 stores and services and attracts more than 30 million visitors a year, which is twice as […]
If you are driving and need to pull over, always try to find a safe spot to make sure you will not cause any safety risk by leaving your car there. It may sometimes be tempting to break this rule, especially if we’re stopping just for a few minutes. But such behaviour may have severe […]
Did you ever imagine how it feels like to find out your car stopped on a motorway and is not going to run again? It may sound like a bad dream, but unfortunately, that’s what happened to some of our customers before their cars were transported by a trailer to our workshop. If you don’t […]
A lot of people claim that if you use a hands-free device for talking on the phone, you are as safe as when you are talking to a passenger. However, a passenger can actually see the road and usually stops the conversation when you are performing some more complicated manoeuvres. A person in a car […]
The record for driving to the highest altitude by car is 6,688 m (21,942 ft) achieved by Gonzalo Bravo and Eduardo Canales with a 1986 modified Suzuki Samurai on the slopes of the Ojos Del Salado volcano in Chile. That’s quite an altitude to be reached by driving, isn’t it?
If you don’t fully stop your car before reversing the direction of drive, you are putting a high load on your transmission which in this case is being used for braking. And since the gearbox is not designed for such purpose, it may get damaged, especially if these conditions will repeat over time. So always […]
Although some of the modern spark plugs may be used for as long as 100,000 miles of driving, you should never leave them unchecked for such extended periods of time. There are different schedules for their replacement depending on the type of engine and the design of the plugs. Usually, they should be looked upon […]
Did you know that the cheapest car in the world was the 1922 Red Bug, built by the Briggs Stratton Co. in the USA. It used to be sell for as low as 125 dollars. It had a 1.57m wheelbase and weighed only 111kg.
The engines used in the US Pierce-Arrow 6-66 Raceabout, the US Peerless 6-60 and the Fageol, was the largest one used in production car so far. It was produced at the beginning of 20th century and had 13.5 liters capacity. Although it’s efficiency per volume was so low, that it’s power is comparable to the […]