The world’s largest parking lot can hold 20,000 vehicles and is situated at the world’s largest shopping and entertainment centre, West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. There are overflow facilities on an adjoining lot for 10,000 more cars.
The largest car mosaic was created with 460 Volkswagen cars in an event organized by Volkswagen do Brasil Indústria de Veículos Automotores Ltda at the Anhembi Parque in São Paulo, Brazil, on 10 April 2010. The mosaic was created to celebreate the 30th anniversary of the Volkswagen Gol and this is why most of the cars used for the mosaic were Gols. The mosaic displayed the logo of the Volkswagen Gol.
The largest car logo was formed by 1,251 Subaru cars during an event organised by Subaru Team Russia (Russia) at Tushino Airfield, Moscow, Russia, on 15 September 2012.
The largest car seat measures 3.4 m (11 ft 2 in) high, 2.17 m (7 ft 2 in) wide and 2.54 m (8 ft 4 in) deep. The seat was made for the Lust am Auto Exhibition in Mannheim, Germany, in September 2004. The seat was acquired at auction by Hemhofen Primary School, Hemhofen, Bavaria, Germany, and measured on 10 December 2006.
The largest card game tournament consisted of 1,146 pairs playing Mus and was achieved by El Correo, in Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain, on 14 November 2010. Mus is a popular card game played throughout Spain, originating from the Basque regions and is played in pairs and the art of bluffing is a crucial strategy. The tournament was a straight knock-out format with half the number of pairs eliminated each round. The tournament started at 9.30am when the 2292 people of all ages poured through the doors
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The largest cardboard box pyramid consisted of 51,963 perfume boxes which were stacked into 39 layers measuring 3 m (9 ft 10.08 in) tall and was achieved by Habchi & Chalhoub Co. and Fiesta Kuwait Co. (both Kuwait) in association with Paco Rabanne in Kuwait, on 15 September 2011. Boxes of the famous perfume One Million by Paco Rabanne were used on the outside surface of the cardboard box pyramid. The pyramid was built in 32 hours by a team of 15 people from Fiesta
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The largest cardboard box was 6.12 m wide, 14.05 m long and 2.75 m high (20 ft 1.2 in × 46 ft 1.2 in × 9 ft 0.3 in) and was created by Chegg.com (USA) at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, USA, on 19 September 2009. The total area is 236.8 cubic meters (8,362.51 cubic feet) The claimants had to redefine all their initial project days before the attempt, because the record they were going to attempt was broken. The cardboard box was presented
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The largest caricature is 91.35 m (299 ft 8.45 in) in length and 60.90 m (199 ft 9.63 in) in width, measuring 631.20 m² (6,794 ft² 21.6 in²) and was drawn by Federico Delgado Heredia a.k.a Fede Heredia (Uruguay) at the Estadio Centenario football stadium in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 28 June 2011. The caricature is of Diego Forlan the Uruguayan footballer. Federico Delgado Heredia took approx 5 hours 50 minutes to complete the caricature and used 60 litres (13.2 UK gal; 15.85 US gal) of
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In May 1995 Paul R. Tidwell (USA) discovered 2 tonnes of gold, 228 tonnes of tin, 54 tonnes of raw rubber and 3 tonnes of quinine in a 108.8-m-long (357-ft) Japanese submarine. The sub, which had also carried 109 men, had been destroyed by a 226.8-kg (500-lb) US bomb on 23 June 1944. Tidwell is now working to recover the vessel, which is submerged at a depth of 5,180 m (17,000 ft), 1,931 km (1,200 miles) west of the Cape Verde islands in the Atlantic
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Twenty C-17 Globemaster IIIs from Charleston Air Force Base, South Caroline, USA, took part in a large formation exercise on 21 December 2006 to demonstrate the strategic airdrop capability of the US Air Force. The aircraft were assigned from the 437th and 315th Airlift Wings thus making it the largest formation of cargo aircraft from a single base.