What do Oprah and Hitler have to do with our 25 weird car facts? Read on to find out! Photo from msnbcmedia.com

The world is full of zany facts. The most obvious turning out to be the funniest in most cases. We went on a search to find some of the silliest facts about our favorite subject, the car. Spanning the globe, we found some of the weirdest, and most absurd facts about automobiles so that we could present them to you. Hopefully these bring a smile to your face or a belly laugh when you find out how much time you actually spend waiting for the light to turn green. Without further ado, here are the funniest car facts we could find:

1. Ticket me red
Red Cars are prohibited in Shanghai, China.

Airbag record: 22 wins, 1 loss and zero no contest. Photo from flamingzombiemonkeys.blogspot.com

2. Airbags save most lives, but… 
Car Airbags kill one person for every 22 lives they save.

3. Hum a few bars and I’ll fake it.
Most American car horns beep in the key note of “F.”

4. Do you know why I pulled you over?
The first speeding ticket was issued in 1902 when cars could only reach a max speed of 40 mph.

5. Does a Kea eat a Kia?
The Kea, a bird that is native to New Zealand, is notorious for eating the rubber strips around car windows.

A Kea bird nibbles on a Kia. Photo from www.hickerphoto.com

6. What took you so long?
In California, there are at least six drivers licenses that are registered under the name “Jesus Christ.”

7. Must not have tripped the sensor.
On average, drivers spend two weeks out of their whole lives, waiting for traffic lights to change.

8. One Billion. Not evil enough!
There are over 1 Billion cars currently in use on earth.

9. Just one more and we’ll have a record…
About 165,000 cars are produced every day.

10. Mein Kampf Subtitle: My Struggle – Getting a car loan.
While in prison writing Mein Kampf, Hilter also wrote to a Mercedes dealership begging for a car loan.

11. Only two of them are spares.
The average car has 30,000 parts.

12. Only 45% of the owners are still young enough to drive.
75% of cars that Rolls Royce has ever produced are still on the road today.

Mein Kampf (a Mercedes car loan). Photo from www.big-lies.org

13. Hitler should have written to Volkswagen.
Volkswagen owns Bently, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Audi, Ducati and Porsche.

14. Should have downloaded those podcasts.
The average American spends 38 hours a year stuck in traffic.

15. Those are house odds!
The odds of dying in a car accident are around 1 in 5,000.

16. Wait for it…. wait for it….
Car wrecks are the number one cause of death for Americans under 35.

17. Where in Bizarro world is Turkmenistan?
In Turkmenistan, car drivers are entitled to 31 gallons of free gasoline a month.

18. I demand a recount.
There are more cars than people in Los Angeles.

19. Won’t you rob your neighbor?
According to a feature in TV Guide magazine, Mr. Rogers once had his car stolen. After the theft was reported on the news, the thieves returned the vehicle with a message: “Sorry, we didn’t know it was yours.”

20. You get an almost free car… and you get an almost free car… everybody gets an almost free car!
The 276 people that received free Pontiac G6 cars on the Oprah Winfrey show in 2004, all had to pay a tax bill of around $6,000 for the free car.

Best car option ever! Photo from blog.beforward

21. No Two-fers
If you and your spouse each received a car on Oprah, you owed Uncle Sam $12,000!

22. Coupes rule the road.
For the past 35 years, the best selling car in America each year has been the Cozy Coupe. In 2008 alone, a year before the car’s 30th anniversary, 457,000 Cozy Coupes were sold.

23. And you thought Detroit was bad.
The world’s capital for the crime of carjacking is South Africa, where the rate of carjackings is about 18 times that of the U.S.

24. Best car option ever!
South African BMWs can be equipped with optional flame throwers to prevent carjackings.

25. Are you sure that’s mud?
A “Dashboard” was originally a piece of wood attached to the front of a horse-drawn carriage that prevented mud from splattering the driver as the horse galloped.