Secrets About Car Manufacturing Brands 🤯😱

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00:00Welcome back to Fact Space. We see their logos every day on the road, but the stories behind

00:05the world's biggest car brands are full of drama, accidents, and surprising origins.

00:10Today we're peeling back the paint on car company secrets.

00:141. The Lamborghini Spite Story

00:16Did you know Lamborghini only exists because of an insult?

00:19Ferruccio Lamborghini was a successful tractor manufacturer who owned a Ferrari.

00:24When his clutch kept breaking he went to Enzo Ferrari to complain. Enzo basically told him,

00:29the problem isn't the car it's the driver, and told him to go back to his tractors.

00:34Furious, Ferruccio decided to build his own luxury car to prove him wrong. And thus,

00:39a legendary rivalry was born. 2. Toyota's Weaver Roots

00:43Before they made the Corolla Toyota didn't make cars at all. They started as Toyota Automatic

00:48Loom Works, a company that manufactured high-tech weaving looms for the textile industry.

00:54In the 1930s the founder's son decided to pivot to automobiles.

00:57They even changed the name from Toyota to Toyota, because it only takes 8 brushstrokes to write in

01:03Japanese, and 8 is considered a lucky number. 3. The Volkswagen Beetle Origins

01:09The Volkswagen Beetle is one of the best-selling cars of all time, but its history is dark.

01:15It was commissioned by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. He wanted a people's car, which is what Volkswagen

01:21means, that was cheap enough for every German family to afford. The design was actually heavily

01:26influenced by Ferdinand Porsche, who later founded the famous sports car company.

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01:354. The Three-Point Gift

01:37In 1959, Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt. Realizing it was the most important safety

01:43device ever created, they did something unthinkable. They opened the patent. They gave the design to

01:49every other car company for free because they believed saving lives was more important than

01:53profit. 5. The Ferrari Logo

01:56The famous prancing horse on Ferrari cars wasn't originally a car symbol. It was the personal

02:02emblem of Francesco Baracca, a legendary Italian fighter pilot from World War I. After he died in

02:08battle, his mother told Enzo Ferrari to put the horse on his cars for good luck. From tractors to fighter

02:14pilots, these brands have traveled a long road to get to your driveway. Tell me in the comments

02:19section which of these car manufacturing brands you fancy more. See you on the next video.