The first successful petrol-driven car, the Motorwagen, built by Karl Friedrich Benz was built in late 1885. The three-wheeler weighed 254 kg (560 lb) and could reach a speed of 13-16 km/h (8-10 mph). Its single-cylinder engine delivered 0.63 kW (0.85 hp) at 400 rpm. It was patented on 29 January 1886. Its first 1-km […]
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Some people think that ABS system can slow down a car even on such slippery surfaces as ice or snow. It will always help to keep control of your vehicle and aid you to steer it around obstacles, but it is not always the case for decreasing the stopping distance. It turns out that on […]
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Did you know, that the fastest crash speed that did not cause the death of the driver happened at the speed of 579 km/h (360 mph)? It may sound improbable, but it actually happened when Donald Campbell crashed his car ‘Bluebird’ when he was trying to set a new land speed record at Bonneville, USA. […]
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The Transmission Control Unit (TCU) is one of the most common problems that we usually deal with. This module is essentially the brain of the gearbox, and it makes all the decisions about changing the gears based on all the information it gathers. When TCU fails, it should light the fault indicator on your dashboard. […]
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Some people think, that if they substitute their summer tyres with the all-season ones, they will gain on traction on wet roads. However, in reality all-season tyres perform better than normal tyres only on snow and in temperatures below 0 Celsius degrees. In warmer temperatures, they actually give worse traction that the summer models.
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A slot car is a powered miniature auto or other vehicle that is guided by a groove or slot in the track on which it runs. The fastest speed reached by such models is currently 50km/h (31 mph), which when scale to a speed that would be reached by a full-sized car, would equal 1583 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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?
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