Interesting facts about cars

 Interesting facts about cars

"When racing car driving on the highway, between its bottom and the road can be very low pressures, sufficient to raise the cover sewer. So has occurred, for example, in Montreal in 1990 on the race sport prototypes - cover, raised by one of the cars hit the next car, because of what started the fire and the race was stopped. So now all the racing cars on city streets cover welded to the rim of the hatch.

- A car Mitsubishi Pajero in the market of Spain presented as Mitsubishi Montero, as the local jargon word ‘pajero’ means «Onanist».

- When the vehicle turns, to decrease the wear and tear of the wheels need to едущее on the inner radius of the wheel spun slowly. In order to make the wheels on one axle rotated with different angular velocities, apply a mechanical device - differential. Despite its complexity, a similar device was already known to the ancient Greeks, for example, in the Antikythera mechanism, which is essentially a mechanical computer and is used to calculate the motions of the Sun and the moon.

- In the races of Formula 1 women can participate on an equal basis with men. But in all the history of the competitions they take part only five women, of which only two were able to overcome the skills and finish the race. In 1975, one of them - Italian Lele Lombardi - managed in one of the Grand Prix of the score, the more you repeat this success could neither one woman.

In 1930 the Americans Charles Creighton and James Hargis made the journey by car from new York to Los Angeles and back. The zest was that the whole way (more than 11 thousand kilometers) they had in the back of the course.

- The car GAZ-21 there have been many modifications. In 1965, was even released the model of GAS-21П - export variant with the right wheel. And in the same year made GAS-21ПЕ - the same model with the right wheel plus automatic transmission.

- In 2007 in England acted in the sale of cartridges for the automobiles with the village of mud. They willingly buy owners of SUVs, which will never go out of the city, but want to justify the main purpose of their machines.

- Driving in a state of intoxication severely punished in most countries of the world. But in Uruguay, on the contrary, in violation of the rules of road motion of the state of alcohol intoxication can serve as a mitigating factor.

- In cars Porsche ignition key is usually located to the left of the steering wheel. This tradition goes back to the first 24-hour race of Le Mans. Then the drivers had to run to their cars, jump on them and start a movement. Finding the ignition key is turned to the left offered a quick start.

- The word of the Land in the name of the car ‘Land Cruiser’ Toyota borrowed in the name of another company (the ‘Land Rover’. And before that ‘Land Cruiser’ was called the Toyota Jeep, as the Japanese thought that jeep is a type of machines, although in fact the trade mark of the Jeep belonging to the company Chrysler.

- Export the name of the car Lada Kalina to Finland - Lada 119, as in translation from Finnish Kalina means crack, rattle, rattle and knock.

- When developing the automobile «Pobeda» was planned, that the name of the machine will be the «Motherland». Having learned of this, he sarcastically asked, «Well, how much we will have a homeland?». That is why the name should be changed to «Win».

- South African legislation allows any degree of self-defense, if we are talking about the threats to the life and property of the individual. For the protection of vehicles against theft popular traps, stun guns and even flame-throwers.

- In a number of European countries cars «Zhiguli» was sold under the brand name «Lada», because of its Association with a doubtful word «gigolo».