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Issue number 5

Installed: 01-9-2000

Factfile

10 amazing "facts" about Cars

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  1. The word "car" derives from the Latin for money.

  2. The most popular colour of car is beige. There just aren't as many beige cars as other colours.

  3. 267 million cars are produced by the World's various manufacturers in a given time period.

  4. Elvis Presley's favourite car was the Lada Riva. Especially with ketchup.

  5. If you compress a car in a crusher, it will end up smaller than it started. This is not however, a solution to road congestion.

  6. Whilst many people have tried, no-one has as yet successfully trained a car to come when called.

  7. 14.43% of people know better.

  8. It is pointless trying to prove that a car cannot be in two places at once.

  9. The number of accidents caused by people under the age of 21, when divided by the total number of accidents will give you the proportion.

  10. If everyone drove like they say they do, then there'd be a lot less idiots on the road.

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