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On the records for a couple things, but I thing interesting for holding the record of fastest production car.... for the longest time of any car.

The F1 held the title for "Fastest Production Car Till Date" for a span of 12 years, since its initial production in 1993. The longest for any street legal or production car in the history of automobiles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1

I also was interested in who owned some;
TAG Hauer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_Heuer
Eric Clapton
George Harrison
Rowan Atkinson
Jay Leno
Wyclef Jean
the CEO of Netscape
The owner of Dubble Bubble Gum
the CEO of Tommy Hilfiger
the CEO of the Oracle Corporation
Ralph Lauren. . . owns 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaren_F1

According to Volkswagen, the final production Veyron engine produces between 1006 to 1026 hp, so the car will be advertised as producing "1001 horsepower" in both the US and European markets, despite the fact that the actual amount of horsepower produced is 986 - making it the second most powerful road production car - second only to the Koenigsegg CCXR, which it is claimed develops 1004bhp, although further testing in the Koenigsegg laboratories has proven it can hit 1064bhp.

(253.2 mph). The top speed was verified once again by James May on Top Gear, again at Volkswagen's private test track. When getting close to the top speed during the test he said that "the tires will only last for about fifteen minutes, but it's OK because the fuel runs out in twelve."

The Veyron is the quickest production car to reach 62 mph with an estimated time of 2.5 seconds, according to the manufacturer. It reaches 60 mph in approximately 2.46 seconds.

And according to the February 2007 issue of Road & Track Magazine, the Veyron accomplished the quarter mile in 10.2 seconds at a speed of 142.9 mph.

This makes the Veyron the quickest and fastest production car in history.

It also consumes more fuel than any other production car, using 5.82 mpg in city driving and 10 mpg in combined highway / city.

At full throttle, it 2.1 mpg, which would empty its 26.4 gallon fuel tank in just 12.5 minutes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron

Like the carriage industry, however, the bicycle industry contributed people, components, capital, and ideas to automotive transportation. In addition, the bicycle created demand for the automobile.

All-in-all as much as two-thirds of the total automotive production in the late 1920's was displacing horse and rail transportation.

1895 was a historical year, the reason why we did not build road vehicles before was because the bicycle had not yet come in numbers and had not directed men's minds to the possibilities of independent long-distance travel over the ordinary highway.

We thought the railroad was good enough.

The bicycle created a new demand which was beyond the ability of the railroad to supply. Then it came about that the bicycle could not satisfy the demand which it had created.

A mechanically propelled vehicle was wanted instead of a foot-propelled one, and we know now that the automobile was the answer.

Auto sales were blazing while the car replaced the horse, bicycle, and train transportation; then became stagnant when the replacement was complete. Stagnation occurred at the point of one car per family. After WW2 auto sales re-established by an increased need for personal transportation, and the interstate system brought about as a great depression public works program to decrease unemployment while improving the infrastructure.

Another spike in car sales occurred when in 1973 the baby boomer generation reached car buying age.

By 1925, the average auto accumulated over 25,000 miles before it headed to the junk yard, by 1930 about 40,000.

Common rules of the road and associated symbols like the octagonal stop sign were also developed during the first growth phase.

The roads themselves were paved.

Installment financing became popular even though most banks opposed it at the time.

Independent auto dealers became the main distribution channel and service stations began popping up.

The primary objective of most affiliated innovations was to make the automobile easier to own and operate. As vehicles were produced which had the capabilities, and the low price, required to replace other means of transportation, people began to buy them for everyday use.

The sales of refrigerators rose sharply from 1925 to 1935, from practically none to 2 million, allowing groceries to be bought in bulk that would stay fresh longer, requiring a means of transportation for the loads of groceries... at a time when buying in bulk quantities became cheaper than an equal number of single unit sales. Buying groceries in large quantities spawned the supermarket, which killed the corner store, necessitating a vehicle to travel farther to get to the supermarket.

Increasing numbers of suburbs after the civil war were made possible by cable cars, via electricity... suburbs outstripped the availability of public transportation... which increased the demand for a car as a necessity and ended the concept of the car as a luxury.

http://www.klhess.com/car_essy.html

In the 1920s, the new production technologies and work simplification allowed automobile manufacturers to hire more and more women into light machine work and assembly jobs.

In addition, the new methods permitted more and more young workers to replace older veterans in the auto shops. The reason was simple—female workers cost much less than men, and young workers labored more vigorously at the new production lines.

The new technological system definitely favored the hiring of young workers in the auto factories. At Dodge, personnel managers “refuse[d] to hire men over 45.”

At the many General Motors plants in Flint, “Workers [were] scrapped at 40.”

With the onset of the Great Depression, too many men competed for too few jobs and automobile manufacturers took advantage of the glut in the labor market. The speed-up became unbearable for many workers, especially the older ones.

“Now,” the worker told the Automobile Labor Board, “the men that are operating these machines are most all young fellows.

They have to be, because I don’t know whether the old men could stand it, . . . and they all have reported that when they came in there to work that they had lost from 10 to 50 pounds.”

When a lay-off came during economic hard times, the automobile personnel offices only rehired the younger, more physically fit workers.

http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Labor/L_Overview/L_Overview5.htm

Only 2 survived into the 21st century. Rover and MG

http://www.austin-rover.co.uk/index.htm?wschapter1f.htm