"At the height of the Autobahn building phase, in 1935, for every sixty people in Germany there was just one automobile, compared to one for every twenty in Fra

"At the height of the Autobahn building phase, in 1935, for every sixty people in Germany there was just one automobile, compared to one for every twenty in France, or one for every twenty-five in Denmark; in the United States, one person out of every five owned a car of their own." Impossible to believe. If you simply factor in age and sex it seems near impossible that in 1935 1 out of every 5 people owned a car at that time.