 Cars:-
All the Facts and Figures on Record Holders
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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
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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
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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.
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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
)
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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) 
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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.
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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)
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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.
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