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Interesting Automobile Trivia: Share Your Knowledge Here
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The word automobile comes, via the French automobile, from the Ancient Greek word - autós ("self") and the Latin mobilis ("movable"); meaning a vehicle that moves itself, rather than being pulled or pushed by a separate animal or another vehicle. The alternative name car is believed to originate from the Latin word carrus or carrum ("wheeled vehicle"), or the Middle English word carre ("cart") (from Old North French), or karros (a Gallic wagon).
Source - wikipedia
Source - wikipedia
A photograph of the original Benz Patent Motorwagen, first built in 1885 and awarded the patent for the concept.
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- The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.
- In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale.
Sounds cool. I read in some magazine that a hotel bought a fleet of 14 Rolls Royce Phantoms. These beauties were majestically parked on the main area. If I recall correctly, it was in Hong Kond only. 
Drive Safe,
350Z
Drive Safe,
350Z
yea 350Z
i had also read that
it was in Hong Kong
14 Rolls were purchased by a hotelier.
i had also read that
it was in Hong Kong
14 Rolls were purchased by a hotelier.
The word "ZEN" (Maruti Zen) is an acronym standing for Zero Engine Noise. It also stands for the Japanese word "Zen" which derives from the Sanskrit word "Dhyana" and means "To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment."
