Aston Martin Trivia
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44 free Aston Martin trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Aston Martin has been rescued more often than almost any carmaker still trading, and each rescue left a story behind: a tractor maker answering a newspaper advert, a company handed over for a sum smaller than a week's wages, a city car that was really a rebadged Toyota, and a concept car that waited 43 years to hit the speed it was promised. These 44 questions follow the marque from a Kensington mews in 1915 to the Formula One grid and the hypercars of today. They cover the people who funded, designed and ran it, the factories it has called home, its racing peaks and its most unusual models, with a one-line explanation under every answer that adds something you did not know. Play it to test yourself, challenge the friend who claims to know every DB, or print it for a car-club quiz night.
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Q 01Which American giant bought 75% of Aston Martin in 1987 and sold the company to a consortium twenty years later?
Ford
Ford sold Aston Martin to help tackle its own heavy losses and restructuring, yet held on to a small stake.
Q 02Which model, the first car built at Aston Martin's St Athan plant, was the marque's first SUV?
DBX
The DBX was aimed at well-off women, widening a customer base dominated by men.
Q 03Aston Martin's headquarters and main factory since 2003 sit on a former RAF V-bomber base in which Warwickshire village?
Gaydon
Gaydon was the first purpose-built factory in Aston Martin's history, a 55-acre site next door to Jaguar Land Rover's own centre on the old airbase.
Q 04Which Buckinghamshire town housed Aston Martin's hand-built works for decades?
Newport Pagnell
Newport Pagnell became Aston Martin's home after its owner bought a coachbuilder based in the town and moved car production into its works.
Q 05Which Aston Martin racer won Le Mans outright in 1959 and sold in 2017 for a British-car record $22.5 million?
DBR1
In that race Stirling Moss's fast DBR1 retired with engine trouble, yet a steadier team-mate took the win as the Ferraris faltered.
Q 06Which Texan shared the winning Aston Martin at Le Mans in 1959 with Roy Salvadori?
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby's heart disease soon forced him to quit racing, so he switched to building cars and created the Cobra.
Q 07Aston Martin, bankrupt seven times in its first century, was bought in 1947 by which industrialist?
David Brown
David Brown bought Aston Martin after spotting a newspaper advert offering a high-class motor business for sale.
Q 08Which Canadian billionaire led the consortium that bought into Aston Martin in 2020 and became its executive chairman?
Lawrence Stroll
Lawrence Stroll made his billions helping grow Tommy Hilfiger and Michael Kors, and he lifted his Aston Martin stake to 25% within two months.
Q 09Which marque, founded by an American-born engineer, was bought in 1947 and still shares Aston Martin's company name?
Lagonda
Lagonda was bought mainly for its new 2.6-litre engine designed by W. O. Bentley, which went on to power the DB2.
Q 10Aston Martin's 2021 Formula One return was a rebrand of which team, whose lineage began as Jordan Grand Prix in 1991?
Racing Point
Racing Point swapped its BWT pink for British racing green because its owner had just bought a stake in Aston Martin.
Q 11Which world champion scored Aston Martin's first Formula One podium, finishing second at Baku in 2021?
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel finished second again in Hungary weeks later, only to be disqualified over a fuel-sample issue.
Q 12Which world champion finished fourth in the 2023 drivers' standings, his first season with Aston Martin?
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso's early podiums lifted Aston Martin to second among constructors, but the car faded and the team finished fifth.
Q 13Which manufacturer became Aston Martin's works Formula One engine partner in 2026 after five seasons as a customer team?
Honda
Honda had formally left Formula One at the end of 2021, then came back as Aston Martin's works partner for the new 2026 engine rules.
Q 21Which designer, later Jaguar's design director, styled the Aston Martin DB7 while working at TWR?
Ian Callum
Ian Callum had never designed a whole car before the DB7, and he says he later drew almost all of the DB9, though it was credited to Henrik Fisker.
Q 22Aston Martin skipped the name DB8 for the DB7's 2004 successor because the badge might wrongly suggest what?
V8 power
V8 power was the worry, because the new car carried a 5.9-litre V12, and the firm also felt a one-step jump would undersell an entirely new design.
Q 23Which engineer designed the straight-six engine for the Aston Martin DB4?
Tadek Marek
Tadek Marek had worked on the engine of the Centurion tank before joining Aston Martin, where he designed the DB4's straight-six.
Q 14Under a technology deal signed in 2013, which German performance brand supplies Aston Martin's V8 engines?
Mercedes-AMG
In exchange for supplying its V8s and electronics, Mercedes-AMG's parent took a stake of up to 5% in Aston Martin.
Q 15Which track-only Aston Martin hypercar was limited to just 24 cars?
Vulcan
The Vulcan came with a driver-training programme to teach owners to handle it, yet one owner still had theirs made road-legal.
Q 16Which million-pound Aston Martin flagship of 2009 had a 7.3-litre V12 and a 220 mph top speed?
One-77
The One-77 was capped at 77 cars, so a 2012 crash in Hong Kong that wrecked one left just 76 still running at the time.
Q 17Which 2011 Aston Martin city car was a rebadged Toyota iQ selling for over £30,000?
Cygnet
Aston Martin forecast about 4,000 Cygnets a year, but sales fell so far short that production ended in 2013.
Q 18Which one-off Aston Martin concept finally reached its promised 200 mph in 2023, decades after it was built?
Bulldog
The Bulldog was shelved after one car because new chairman Victor Gauntlett judged it too costly, and in 2023 it hit 205.4 mph at Campbeltown.
Q 19Which designer's wedge-shaped 1976 four-door Aston Martin saloon made Time's list of the 50 worst cars ever?
William Towns
William Towns's saloon was crammed with cutting-edge electronics, which Time said would have been very impressive if any of them ever worked.
Q 20Aston Martin's DB7 was built on a platform evolved from which Jaguar model?
XJS
The XJS-based DB7 began as a Jaguar sports car, but when Jaguar cancelled it, TWR took the design to Aston Martin.
Q 24Which 1940 Aston Martin prototype reportedly convinced a tractor magnate to buy the company?
Atom
The Atom's space-frame chassis became the basis for Aston Martin's post-war cars into the late 1950s.
Q 25What nickname is given to the very first car built by Aston Martin's founders?
Coal Scuttle
The Coal Scuttle was Aston Martin's first car, but the First World War halted the founders' work, and more cars came only after the war.
Q 26Which racer invested in Aston Martin in the early 1920s, backing two cars for the 1922 French Grand Prix?
Louis Zborowski
Louis Zborowski's Chitty Bang Bang cars so inspired a young Ian Fleming that he later wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Q 27Before its 1950s move to Buckinghamshire, Aston Martin built its cars in which Middlesex town?
Feltham
During the Second World War the Feltham works switched to war production, and staff kept working through bombing raids.
Q 28In the early 1970s, Aston Martin's longtime owner stepped down and sold the business to which buyer?
Company Developments
Company Developments did not keep Aston Martin for long: by the spring of 1975 the firm had passed to yet another set of owners.
Q 29The four-door Rapide was built from 2010 by contract manufacturer Magna Steyr in which Austrian city?
Graz
Graz lost the Rapide six years earlier than planned, and a £1.6 million UK government grant helped bring its production to Warwickshire.
Q 30Aston Martin's second factory, opened at St Athan in 2019 to build its SUV, is in which UK nation?
Wales
Wales beat rival sites as far afield as the Americas and the Middle East, helped by millions of pounds in Welsh Government grants.