BIG QUIZ ANSWERS

So how did you do? Here are the answers to our quiz

THAT WAS 2019

1 a) Ford 2 b) 400 3 b) 10 years of the R8 4 c) Fullback 5 c) £211,599 6 a) Ice cream van 7 b) Moon buggy 8 c) £98,000 9 a) 812 Superfast 10 b) 8th generation

SPORTING CHANCE

11 a) Jorge Lorenzo 12 b) Six 13 a) Estonian 14 c) Simon Pagenaud 15 a) Alexander Albon 16 a) Toyota 17 b) 385 18 c) 2 points 19 b) Vietnam 20 a) Citroen

STATESIDE

21 a) 4,180,000 22 b) Red and blue 23 b) 1965 24 c) Median strip 25 b) 1985 26 a) 14

27 2) Key West, Florida

to Fort Kent, Maine 28 3) BMW

29 2) 1974 30 a) 1969 Dodge Charger

CARPLAY

31 c) Kraftwerk 32 a) Datsun and Buick 33 b) It was good for his voice 34 a) He shot it 35 b) Peugeot 405 36 a) I’m in Love With

My Car – Queen 37 a) Ferrari 250 GTO 38 c) DeTomaso Mangusta 39 b) 58mph 40 c) Daft Punk

OUR FRIENDS ELECTRIC

41 a) SF90 Stradale 42 a) GM EV1 43 b) The Boring Company 44 a) Emit an artificial sound at speeds below 12mph 45 c) Mirafiori, Italy 46 b) Combined

Charging System 47 c) Tesla Model 3 48 a) Honda e 49 c) Carbon fibre 50 a) Volkswagen ID.3

HYPERLINKS

51 a) Ott 19 (World Rally champions’ first names, plus the year they won) 52 b) Consul Classic (Model evolution of Ford’s familysized car in reverse order) 53 c) E46 (BMW 3-Series model codes in chronological order) 54 a) iPace (19) (Winners

of the European Car of the Year title and the years that they won) 55 c) Greening (UK’s Secretary of State for Transport in reverse chronological order) 56 a) Blue (UK’s most popular car colours in 2018, according to SMMT) 57 c) A6 (The UK’s longest A-roads, in descending order) 58 a) Lotus Esprit Turbo 81 (James Bond cars and the years in which they appeared on screen) 59 b) M27 J7

(M27 motorway junctions in ascending order; there is no J6) 60 a) Keele (M6 motorway services heading northbound)

SAY WHAT?

61 b) Walter Röhrl 62 a) Henry Ford 63 c) Mario Andretti 64 a) Ralf Speth, CEO of JLR 65 b) “I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” 66 b) “If you ain’t trying to cheat a little, you ain’t likely to win much.” 67 c) “Cars are the sculptures

of our everyday lives.” 68 c) Carroll Shelby 69 a) “An expert is someone who tells you why you can’t do something.” 70 a) “If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?”

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

71 b) It was trademarked by

German company Krupps 72 a) Road Rover 73 c) Toyota 74 c) Kauai 75 a) It’s an acronym of Anonima Lombarda Fabbrica Automobili 76 a) Electric 77 b) Chrysler 78 c) Morris Mini Minor

and Austin Seven 79 a) It’s the Japanese name for the star constellation Pleiades 80 a) Winds

NUTS AND BOLTS

81 a) Clutch 82 b) Suspension systems 83 a) Manifold Absolute

Pressure 84 c) Reduces body roll

through fast corners 85 b) It has two clutches 86 b) Convertibles 87 b) Worldwide Harmonised Light vehicle Test Procedure 88 c) In the engine, joining

the piston to the con rod 89 a) Pferdestärke 90 a) Charging systems

for electric cars