The other day, I was down near the port, and a giant ship came in from across the ocean. It was filled with cars from Asia. The ship traveled across the ocean at about 12 knots, no, not very fast, you might even call the slow boat from China. Each car was then driven off the ship several miles to a big parking lot. The cars will wait there until they are loaded on a train and ship to specific dealerships in different parts of the country here in the US. The car won't make its entire journey by train from there, it may also make its final destination via a truck, and that might be anywhere from 20 miles to 400 miles.
At that point the car will be traveling on the back of the truck at about 40 to 60 miles per hour on average. When the car is being taken from the ship to the parking lot, or from the parking lot to the train it will be driven at about 20 - 35 miles per hour. If the car is taken on a test drive it may drive anywhere from 25 miles per hour to 85 miles per hour, before the salesperson tells the driver (new car buyer) to slow down. If one of the sales managers at the car dealership takes the car home for the evening, who knows, they may hot dog at and drive the car up to 100 miles per hour.
Needless to say, most all the miles driven on your car before you buy it will be easy miles. In other words nothing against what the operations manual from the manufacturer suggests as a slow speed to drive during the break-in period for perhaps the first 500 miles. Therefore, you really have nothing to worry about, and when the car is traveling across the ocean some 10,000 miles, those 12 nautical miles per hour don't count, just as the speed of the train doesn't matter, nor the speed of the 18 Wheeler car carrier. See that point?
Does any of this really matter? No not really, it's nothing you should be alarmed with, that's just how cars get from the manufacture somewhere in the world to the dealership, your car does a lot of traveling before you buy it, perhaps you've never thought there. Nevertheless, since car sales are up, and this has been in the news quite a bit, I thought you should know. If you are thinking about buying a new car it is a fun topic to think about.
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