Automotive bull5hit facts thread

[Justin Case]

The SS car company changed its name to Jaguar in 1945 because Sir William Lyons developed a bad lisp during the war.

[John F]

 More registered sex offenders drive Citroens than any other brand of car.

[anonymous user]

The Civil Service still has a fleet of Rover P5s stored at an underground regional seat of government near Gloucester. As late as last year they were still completing diesel conversions on them so they can run on veg oil if necessary, due to problems with the stockpiled petrol going off. They share the storage with the remaining Austin Gypsys that were bought by mistake instead of Land Rovers.

[anonymous user]

When Terry Waite was released from captivity his Austin Ambassador had been standing in the airport car-park for several years, but after a jump-start it ran perfectly. The airport car parking firm were persuaded to write off the overstay fee for the car-park as they did not want any negative publicity.

[Taff]

Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Moss invented car alarms, after the Ford Capri 1300GL he bought to celebrate his 5th wedding anniversary to Barbara Bach got stolen

[inconsistant]

Manual window winders work the opposite way on cars from the southern hemisphere.

[John F]

Cesar, the dog food for small dogs, can be used as a lubricating additive for petrol engines with unhardened valve seats.

[andy18s]

The pics sent back by the Pluto probe Talbot Horizon caused a bit of a kerfuffle....

 

[Aston Martin]

Can we have a real fact and a bullshit fact thread? 

[nisfan]

There already is a bullshit thread, cant find it though.

All hydro-pneumatic citroen suspension was designed to also run on wine, spreadable cheese or eggs kept in a basket on the bonnet.

[I_am_Diesel]

Audi require potential buyers to fail an IQ test before they will let them buy one of their cars.

[Taff]

Marmite is a by-product of the tyre manufacturing process

[anonymous user]

Can we have a real fact and a bullshit fact thread? 

All these facts are real, it's just most of them are wrong

[Christine]

 

Manual window winders work the opposite way on cars from the southern hemisphere.

 Povo Cinquecento's do go the wrong way, it drives you nuts .

[alf892]

Povo Cinquecento's do go the wrong way, it drives you nuts .

Fuxake stop posting sensible..........

 

Posters on minority interest website Autoshite rigidly follow thread titles because they know Moto Scat will send a death squad if they deviate.

[Albert Ross]

In the Autumn of 1988, a road race between a simple Mexican peasant, and an unknown Finnish chap, was set up to run between Hungerford, Marlborough, and Great Bedwyn, using two cars, and a Co-Driver in each. The cars were a 1969 Mercedes W115 2 Litre petrol, and a 1977 Mini 850. The fastest car was the Mercedes, but the winning car was the Mini. The fastest driver was the simple Mexican peasant, who went back home to sell drugs. The Finnish chap went on to relative obscurity and a future in F1.

 

Renault 4s weren't always French. Some were masquerading as French, having been built in Djibouti, during a power cut.

 

Bristol Cars supplied engines to AC. AC supplied charging systems to Bristol. However, not all Bristolians enjoy fast internet.

[brownnova]

As you know,

 

In 1979 to boost flagging Midget sales MG hid solid gold MG badges in 10 yellow Midgets. However only 8 were ever found, and with rumoured worth of £100,000 this is why yellow Midgets always command a small premium.

[fred]

When Audi took over Skoda - they was going to rebrand the name and show the world they were now made by Audi but cheaper, they decided on ALDI

but the name was already taken so they kept to the Skoda name

[NorfolkNWeigh]

As you approach Luton Airport on your EasyJet flight from the west, if you look down to the right after Luton Hoo ,there is a large lake when the weeds and Lily's allow you can just see the outline of 123 Chevette HSRs that were dumped in 1982 to avoid inspection by FIA Homologation officials. They were all fitted with Delorean engines by Colin Chapman because he used the Chevette engines in Excels.

[CHRIS1980]

The new vauxhall Viva was supposed to be called the Eve but the name was changed on the eleventh hour.

[CHRIS1980]

Alec Issigonis and Doctor Moulton are still alive. Today they survive as designers of fortune,and are still wanted by the motor industry. If you need them,and if you can find them. Maybe you could hire the ADO team.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Bristol refuse to sell a car to anyone who has bought their own furniture.

[inconsistant]

In Swedish SAAB means the same backwards.

[LC Torana]

Alex Moulton had a water bed.

[Christine]

Pissing in the screenwash bottle in winter prevents it  from freezing.  

[sheffcortinacentre]

norfolknweigh I presume you know who paul youngs father is.

 

wonder if he was a citreon owner.

[FakeConcern]

Volvo means "I LOL" in Swedish

[62 Austin]

A Jeep CJ-5 with really big tires will not float. Please do not ask me how I know this.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

norfolknweigh I presume you know who paul youngs father is.

 

wonder if he was a citreon owner.

I think that may have come from a thread like this somewhere years ago. Gary Glitter is only 11 years older than Paul Young. According to Wikipedia his dad actually did work at Vauxhall( as did Paul when he first left school) I based my fact* solely on his birthplace. Wonder how many more of my facts are actually true?

[Vince70]

The canopy on a Messerschmitt bubble car were old stock piled Messerschmitt 110 cockpit canopies and the only reason it went out of production wasn't to do with the advent of small cars such as the mini but because the tooling couldn't be acquired for the production of anymore canopies after the initial batch were used up..

 

Also Plans had been drawn up for a much improved version using the ME262 canopy but the canopies couldn't be obtained at the time because these were now behind the other side of the iron curtain.

 

Also the reason the Truimph Spitfire got its name was because it used the same temperature gauge and rear view mirror as a Mk IX Spitfire and the GT6 was also going to be named the Spiteful after the successor to the Spitfire but being that only 19 were built Triumph thought it wouldn't be a good idea as it might be a bad omen for car sales.