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Highest Car Mileage.
The highest recorded mileage for a car is 1,690,000 miles by a 1996
Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvine Gordon of Patchogue, New York,
USA, up to Feb 1999
Biggest Car.
The biggest car ever to be produced for private use was the Bugatti 'Royale' type 41 built in France, by Bugatti in 1927, the car has an 8 cylinder engine, a 12.7 litre capacity and is more than 22 ft long.
the bonnet alone is 7ft long.
Widest Car.
The Koenig Competition: 2417, built in 1989, and the Koenig Competition Evolution: 2418, built in 1990, in Germany, are both 7ft 2 3/4ins wide.( 2.195 m )
Smallest Car.
The Peel P50 which was constructed by the peel engineering company on the Isle of Man in 1962, was 1.34m ( 4ft 5 ins ) long
and 99 cm ( 3ft 3ins ) wide, and was 1.34m in height. It weighed 59 kg (132 Ib)
Smallest Car in production.
The Smart car made by Daimler-Benz is the smallest car currently in production; with an exterior length of just under 2.5m ( 8ft 4ins )it beats its nearest rival, the Rover Mini, by 55cm ( 1ft 8ins ). The two seater car has removable body panels made out of plastic, allowing owners to change the colour of there cars
Cheapest Car.
In The 1922 Red Bug Buckboard, Built by the Briggs and Stratton Company, Milwaukee, USA, was on the market for $125-$150 ( £28- £34 ).
This would be the same as $1,130-$1,870 ( £680-£826 ) in 1999
Early Models of the King Midget cars which were made in the USA in kit form for self assembly, sold for as little as $100 ( £25 ).
Which would be $842 ( £507 ) in 1999.
Lightest Car.
The worlds lightest ever car was built and driven by Louis Borsi of London UK, and weighs 9.5 kg ( 21lb ).
It has an 2.5cc engine and can reach a maximum of 25km/h (15 mph)
Heaviest Car.
The Heaviest car in recent production is the Soviet built Zil-41407 limousine, which has a 3.88m ( 12ft 9ins ) wheel base, weighing 3.335 tonnes.
A 'stretched' Zil, of which only two or three were made annually, was used by former president Mikhail Gorbachev until Dec 1991. It weighed 6 tonnes and used 75 mm ( 3 ins ) armour plated steel for protection in key area's.
The eight cylinder engine used fuel like it was going out of fashion, 2.2km/litre ( 6 mpg )
Longest Production Run.
The Morgan 4/4 built by the Morgan Motor Company, Malvern, Worcs,
UK, celebrated its 63rd birthday in Dec 1998.
There is currently a waiting list of between 6 and 8 years for the car.
The highest recorded mileage for a car is 1,690,000 miles by a 1996
Volvo P-1800S owned by Irvine Gordon of Patchogue, New York,
USA, up to Feb 1999
Biggest Car.
The biggest car ever to be produced for private use was the Bugatti 'Royale' type 41 built in France, by Bugatti in 1927, the car has an 8 cylinder engine, a 12.7 litre capacity and is more than 22 ft long.
the bonnet alone is 7ft long.
Widest Car.
The Koenig Competition: 2417, built in 1989, and the Koenig Competition Evolution: 2418, built in 1990, in Germany, are both 7ft 2 3/4ins wide.( 2.195 m )
Smallest Car.
The Peel P50 which was constructed by the peel engineering company on the Isle of Man in 1962, was 1.34m ( 4ft 5 ins ) long
and 99 cm ( 3ft 3ins ) wide, and was 1.34m in height. It weighed 59 kg (132 Ib)
Smallest Car in production.
The Smart car made by Daimler-Benz is the smallest car currently in production; with an exterior length of just under 2.5m ( 8ft 4ins )it beats its nearest rival, the Rover Mini, by 55cm ( 1ft 8ins ). The two seater car has removable body panels made out of plastic, allowing owners to change the colour of there cars
Cheapest Car.
In The 1922 Red Bug Buckboard, Built by the Briggs and Stratton Company, Milwaukee, USA, was on the market for $125-$150 ( £28- £34 ).
This would be the same as $1,130-$1,870 ( £680-£826 ) in 1999
Early Models of the King Midget cars which were made in the USA in kit form for self assembly, sold for as little as $100 ( £25 ).
Which would be $842 ( £507 ) in 1999.
Lightest Car.
The worlds lightest ever car was built and driven by Louis Borsi of London UK, and weighs 9.5 kg ( 21lb ).
It has an 2.5cc engine and can reach a maximum of 25km/h (15 mph)
Heaviest Car.
The Heaviest car in recent production is the Soviet built Zil-41407 limousine, which has a 3.88m ( 12ft 9ins ) wheel base, weighing 3.335 tonnes.
A 'stretched' Zil, of which only two or three were made annually, was used by former president Mikhail Gorbachev until Dec 1991. It weighed 6 tonnes and used 75 mm ( 3 ins ) armour plated steel for protection in key area's.
The eight cylinder engine used fuel like it was going out of fashion, 2.2km/litre ( 6 mpg )
Longest Production Run.
The Morgan 4/4 built by the Morgan Motor Company, Malvern, Worcs,
UK, celebrated its 63rd birthday in Dec 1998.
There is currently a waiting list of between 6 and 8 years for the car.
