30 Most Iconic Cars of the 1970s

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• When your country's most famous automaker is Lamborghini, of course you get them to make you some police cars. Lambo donated a pair of personalized Gallardo's to the Italian police force. They have video surveillance systems, gun racks, defibrillators, and organ transplant fridges. It may come as no surprise that both were crashed. This is why we can't have nice things.
• That "new car smell" that everyone seems to love probably isn't that great for you. It's actually comprised of around 50 volatile organic compounds that are being released following the manufacturing process. Many VOCs are known carcinogens, but studies remain inconclusive and contradictory as to whether new car smell poses health risks.
• Speeding tickets in Switzerland and Finland are assessed as a daily fee and linked to your salary. The more you make, the more you pay. The greater over the speed limit you are, the greater the number of days you are fined. This led to the most expensive speeding ticket in the world: a nearly $1,100,00 Swiss fine.
• 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 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!