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