The World’s Biggest Car Company Isn’t Toyota
In 1968, Mattel wanted toy cars that were faster than anyone else’s, so it put a General Motors car designer and a rocket scientist on the job. They built wheels with almost no friction, and the cars flew down the orange track. Today about sixteen Hot Wheels roll off the line every second, and Mattel says that’s more cars than Ford, GM and Chrysler have ever built combined. In 2020 Toyota was the biggest carmaker on Earth with about nine and a half million cars. Hot Wheels made over five hundred million. Which Hot Wheels did you have the most of? #assettocorsa #carfacts #racing #automobile #hotwheels #didyouknow #viralshorts #shorts
About Automobile
A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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