Only about 18% of the energy from the fuel reaches the wheels
It may be of an interest for some of you, that the tank-to-wheel energy efficiency is 18% for the petrol and 22% for the diesel cars. All the rest is being used up by all the other
The most produced car model is Toyota Corolla
Did you know that Toyota Corolla is the most produced car in the world so far? There are already more than 40 million of these vehicles produced and it is still growing. Although t
Luxembourg have the highest rate of car ownership in the world
In Luxembourg, there are 647 cars per 1,000 citizens. It makes that country to have the highest rate of car ownership in the world. The second country in that category is Iceland,
The risk of a crash doubles with each 5km/h over a 60km/h speed limit
The risk of a casualty crash approximately doubles with each 5km/h increase in speed on a 60km/h speed limited road, or with each 10km/h increase in speed on 110km/h roads. So thin
Wearing seatbelts cuts the risk of injury by half
Wearing a seat belt reduces the risk of fatal injury to front-seat passengers by 45% and risk of moderate-to-critical injury by 50%. Meanwhile, car occupants are not properly restr
Longest continuous car skid was 10 km long
The longest car skid marks were made by a jet-powered Spirit of America on 15 October 1964. It was 10 kilometres long, and the record has never later been broken. The longest skid
Drivers of Lexus ES 300 get the most speeding tickets
A recent study performed by Insurance.com shows that the drivers of Lexus ES 300 get more tickets for speeding than owners of any other car. Very close to the result of the Lexus i
The tightest parallel parking is 7.5 cm
A British stunt driver, Alastair Moffatt, managed to slide his way into a gap measuring just 7.5cm longer than the Fiat 500C 1.2 Cult he was driving. It is currently the tightest d
1 in 5 of 16-year-old drivers has an accident within their first year of driving
Did you know that about 20% of 16-year-old drivers have an accident during their first year of driving? That is one of the reasons why most of the countries allow driving only to p
Two minutes of idling uses the as much fuel as 1 mile of driving
According to Consumer Energy Center, two minutes of idling your car will use the same amount of fuel as it would take to drive for one mile. That pretty much explains why start-sto