30 Most Iconic Cars of the 1970s

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• If you need more range for your car’s remote key, just hold it to your head. It will double the range because the skull acts as an amplifier. Speaking of the head, engineers in Germany have created a “Brain Driver” that can drive a car using your thoughts alone. Let’s hope you don’t try singing along to the radio or letting your mind wander.
• The average car is made up of around 30,000 parts! It seems like a modern miracle, then, that everything works perfectly on most of the days that you drive it. That should also help ease your annoyance when something does go wrong, and your mechanic is able to fix it. There are a lot of parts to sift through!
• We all know that obesity is a health problem, but did you that it's a fuel economy problem as well? Americans are heavier than they've ever been. Since cars are carrying heavier payloads, aka us, that drags on fuel economy. For every extra pound, the U.S. wastes another 39 million gallons of fuel per year.
• The Census Bureau estimates that around 100,000 people are cited for speeding every day. The average speeding ticket is $150, so that generates around $5.5 billion per year in revenue. The highest speed ticked so far on record was 242 mph in Texas in 2003. He was driving a Koenigsegg CC8S.
• Rolls-Royce is known for its high quality and bespoke approach to auto manufacturing. Buyers work hand-in-hand with the automaker to customize the model they are buying. With such a strong focus on quality, it shouldn't come as a surprise that 75% of Rolls-Royce models ever sold are estimated to still be on the road. It also helps that their yearly sales record is only just over 5,000.