Interesting Car Facts From Our Resident Car Expert!

If you dabble in the odd pub quiz, and there are plenty to enjoy in St Helens, you’ll know there are almost always questions about the motoring industry as well.

It’s a fascinating world, from manufacturing right through to the scrapping process, and it's no wonder that cars, in whatever shape or form, never cease to amaze.

Metro Salvage Scrap Car Collections have picked some industry titbits that might just come in useful next time your local holds a quiz night. They're also great for impressing the kids when you’ve got a long journey ahead.

• Here’s one to make the Scrap Car industry proud: The car is the most recycled product in the world - this is something Metro Salvage Scrap Car Collections should know, as they pick up old bangers for instant cash and sell inexpensive, quality used parts that keep many motorists mobile until it's scrapping time.      

And now for those other facts:

• The car got it's name from 'horseless carriage.' That was a bit of a mouthful so they just said 'carriage.' Even that was too much and so the 'car' was born.
• In an average lifetime a person spends two weeks waiting for traffic lights to turn green. It just seems longer.
• Back in 1916 the Model T Ford had captured 55 per cent of the motoring market. It's a record that's never been broken.
• The first speeding ticket was handed out in 1902.
• It was a woman who came up with windscreen wipers. In 1903 Mary Anderson was granted her first patent for the device.
• It takes just 40 milliseconds for an airbag to inflate.
• The first  motoring death was in 1896 when a woman was hit by a passing car.
• Ferrari make just 14 motors a day.
• It might drive you bonkers, but 90 per cent of us sing while we’re at the wheel. Or think we can!