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Automotive superlatives include attributes such as the smallest, largest, fastest, lightest, best-selling, and so on. This list (except for the firsts section) is limited to automobiles built after World War II, and lists superlatives for earlier vehicles separately. The list is also limited to production road cars that:
A 1966 Volvo P1800S and its owner Irv Gordon (1940–2018) of East Patchogue, New York, have the Guinness world record for highest mileage. Gordon began driving the car in 1966, and in 1987 the car reached the one million mile mark. In 1998, it was registered as the vehicle with the highest certified mileage driven by the original owner in non ...
Overview of globally best-selling automobiles Image Automobile Production Units sold Notes 1927 Ford Model-T. Ford Model T: 1908–1927 16,500,000 [8] The first car to achieve one million, five million, ten million and fifteen million units sold. [8] In 1914, it was estimated that nine out of every ten cars in the world were Fords. [citation ...
For gas cars with the best gas mileage, Honda offers the following: The 2024 Honda Civic starts at $23,950 with 35 mpg combined. The 2024 Honda Accord starts at $27,895 with up to 29 mpg in the ...
The highest greenhouse rating of any 2009 car listed is the Toyota Prius, with 106 g/km CO 2 and 4.4 L/100 km (64 mpg ‑imp; 53 mpg ‑US). Several other cars also received the same rating of 8.5 for greenhouse. The lowest rated was the Ferrari 575 at 499 g/km CO 2 and 21.8 L/100 km (13.0 mpg ‑imp; 10.8 mpg ‑US).
The current record is 9,750 km/L (27,500 mpg ‑imp; 22,900 mpg ‑US), set in 2011 by the Polytechnic University of Milan's prototype Apollo. [12] The world record in Diesel efficiency was achieved by a team from the Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Politechnical University of Valencia, Spain) in 2010 with 1396.8 kilometres per litre.
Some car manufacturers support a "high mileage" club. For example, Toyota, Honda, Land Rover, Volvo and Mercedes-Benz have a "High Mileage Award" program in which owners who drive 250,000 kilometres (160,000 mi), 500,000 kilometres (310,000 mi), 750,000 kilometres (470,000 mi), and 1,000,000 kilometres (620,000 mi) are awarded with a ...
New vehicles sold in the U.S. will have to average about 38 miles per gallon of gasoline in 2031 in real-world driving, up from about 29 mpg this year, under new federal rules unveiled Friday by ...