Some Auto Trivia
If you like to gather around the water cooler on Monday mornings to bench race with your hot rod buddies, we provide the following bits of trivia that you may find useful to ensure your win. Have fun, and remember to be gentle!
- What made the Dodge T-Rex concept truck so unusual was that it had six wheels.
- The first Ferrari sports car to top out over 198 miles per hour was the f40.
- The first car introduced by Porsche at the time of the manufacturer’s opening was the 356.
- Ford employees gave the affectionate nickname “personal car” to the T-bird.
- The first Corvette was made in 1953.
- Ford reacted to the Corvette with its Thunderbird.
- The first names of the Dodge brothers were John and Horace.
- The Studebaker was actually responsible for facilitating the Mercedes-Benz before its own demise.
- The Isuzu Piazza was the manufacturer’s first and only attempt to sell a saloon car in the United Kingdom.
- Bill Mitchell (official illustrator of the Automobile Racing Club of America) joined General Motors in 1935 and designed the Cadillac Series 60 in 1935.
- At the time Henry Ford II took over his family business at the age of 28 in 1945 it was losing 10 million per month.
- Oldsmobile was the first car to be mass produced.
- In 1965, the Chevrolet Impala sold more than one million units in North America, setting a record that still stands today.