love cars and the stories behind them? join us
on the drive to automotive enlightenment in the fourth edition of Friday Fast
Facts!
The average Bugatti owner has three Jets, One
Yacht and 84 Cars
A fleet of luxury cars including a Bugatti Veyron
It’s
imperative for a company to know its clientele. According to Wolfgang
Dürheimer, head of both Bugatti and Bentley, “The Bentley customer on average
owns eight cars. The average Bugatti customer has about 84 cars, three jets and
one yacht.” The report Bloomberg report doesn’t
specify whether the cars are Fords or Ferraris but we lean much more towards the
latter. try and come up with a list of 84 dream cars. We didn’t make it past
30.
In 2017,
Rolls-Royce unveiled the most expensive new car Ever.
Rolls-Royce Sweptail (courtesy of daily Express)
Rolls-Royce doesn’t make numerous two-seaters, but the ones they
do make come at a premium. The 2017 Sweptail was built for a high-profile
client for just under $13 million. The buyer wanted Rolls to produce a
reiteration of the “cars of the ‘golden era’”, according to a Road
and Track short article by Máté Petrány. The car is even outfitted with luggage
rails and a hat rack which makes this a steal for anybody searching for the Great
Gatsby experience.
A car Spends
Nearly 95% of its lifetime Parked
Aerial view of Copart Los Angeles
According to a report
by transportation adviser Paul Barter on reinvintingparking.org, “the average
car is parked 95 percent of the time.” even with those long commutes and road
trips, your car may still be less active than numerous of your household
appliances. At any rate, we hope that your car is parked as you’re reading
this.
The Average
American worker Spends about 38 hours Per Year stuck in traffic Jams
The average worker spends nearly a work week per year
commuting to and from work. The squandered time is depressing enough but researchers
estimate the extra time on the road leads to an extra 2.9 billion
gallons of fuel purchased and an additional 56 billion pounds of carbon dioxide
produced per year!
Many
Volkswagen model names are derived from Wind.
Volkswagen Jetta available at Copart.com
If you are one of the lucky Americans who trade nearly 40
hours of totally free time to sit in traffic you may have found yourself wondering
where Volkswagen came up
with the names of their cars. wonder no longer. According
to Volkswagen, the popular Jetta is derived from the German word for jet
stream while the Passat is short for “passatwinde” or trade winds. As VW
explains on their site, numerous believed the same to be true for the Golf but its
inspiration was the Gulf Stream ocean current.
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