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50 free Aston Martin trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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 50 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 took its 75% stake in 1987 and full control by 1993, then sold Aston Martin for £475 million in March 2007 after hiring UBS to auction it.
Q 02Which model, launched in 2020 and the first car built at Aston Martin's St Athan plant, was the marque's first SUV?
DBX
The DBX was Aston Martin's first SUV and it also became Formula One's official medical car in 2021, painted green with neon yellow accents.
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 04Nearly 13,000 Aston Martins were hand-built between 1955 and 2007 in which Buckinghamshire town beside the M1?
Newport Pagnell
Newport Pagnell rolled out its last car on 19 July 2007, yet the old 3.6-acre site lives on as Aston Martin Works, the heritage sales and restoration arm.
Q 05Which Aston Martin racer won Le Mans outright in 1959 and sold in 2017 for a British-car record $22.5 million?
DBR1
The DBR1 also won the Nürburgring 1000 km and the Tourist Trophy in 1959, three straight victories that equalled a record set by the Ferrari 250TR.
Q 06Which Texan, later famous for the Cobra, shared the winning Aston Martin at Le Mans in 1959 with Roy Salvadori?
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Shelby, described at the time as an ex-chicken farmer, brought the car home a lap ahead of its team-mate in a formation finish for a 1-2.
Q 07By the company's own count, how many times did Aston Martin go bankrupt during its first century?
Seven
Seven bankruptcies in a hundred years is the figure Aston Martin itself quotes, the first coming in 1924 when Lady Charnwood bought the wreckage.
Q 08Which Canadian billionaire led the consortium that bought into Aston Martin in 2020 and became its executive chairman?
Lawrence Stroll
Lawrence Stroll's Yew Tree consortium paid £182 million for a 16.7% stake in January 2020, and he lifted his holding to 25% within two months.
Q 09Which marque, founded by an American-born opera singer, was bought in 1947 and still shares Aston Martin's company name?
Lagonda
Lagonda was named after a Shawnee settlement in founder Wilbur Gunn's home town of Springfield, Ohio, though he built his cars in Staines, Middlesex.
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 a modern take on British racing green, and the constructor entered as a customer of a rival's engines.
Q 11Which four-time world champion scored Aston Martin's first modern Formula One podium, 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 two-time world champion gave Aston Martin eight Formula One podiums in 2023, his first season with the team?
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso finished fourth in the 2023 drivers' standings with 206 points, six of his podiums coming in the first half of the year.
Q 13Which manufacturer became Aston Martin's works Formula One engine partner in 2026 after five seasons as a customer team?
Honda
Q 21Which designer, later Jaguar's design director, styled the DB7 for TWR and co-designed its 2003 successor?
Ian Callum
Ian Callum was new to car design when Tom Walkinshaw hired him, and he redesigned an abandoned Jaguar project with proportions inspired by the Nissan 300ZX.
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 DB4's straight-six and the Aston Martin V8 that stayed in production until 2000?
Tadek Marek
Honda's F1 programme is run by its HRC motorsport arm, and the deal ended the team's customer engine supply that dated back to 2009.
Q 14Under a technology deal signed in 2013, which German performance brand supplies Aston Martin's turbocharged engines?
Mercedes-AMG
Mercedes-AMG got up to 5% of Aston Martin and a non-voting board seat in return, and its parent later grew that holding to nearly 10%.
Q 15Which track-only Aston Martin was limited to 24 cars, one for each hour of Le Mans, at $2.3 million apiece?
Vulcan
The Vulcan's 7.0-litre V12 makes 820 hp, and owners must be approved by the factory before driving it on track days, just like Ferrari's FXX cars.
Q 16Which £1.15 million Aston Martin flagship hit 220 mph in 2009 tests, powered by a 7.3-litre V12?
One-77
The One-77 was first shown at the 2008 Paris Motor Show almost entirely hidden under a 'Savile Row tailored skirt', with full specs withheld until Geneva 2009.
Q 17Which 2011 Aston Martin city car was a rebadged Toyota iQ, priced at roughly three times the donor car?
Cygnet
The Cygnet lasted only until 2013, but in 2018 the factory built a one-off version stuffed with a 4.7-litre, 430 bhp eight-cylinder engine for a customer.
Q 18Which gull-winged 1980 Aston Martin concept finally hit its promised 200 mph in 2023, 43 years after it was built?
Bulldog
The Bulldog, nicknamed K9 after the Doctor Who robot dog, reached 205.4 mph at Campbeltown Airport in Scotland after a nut-and-bolt restoration; only one of a planned 15 to 25 was built.
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 'folded paper' saloon was the first production car with a digital instrument panel, and its electronics cost four times the budget for the whole car.
Q 20The 1994 DB7, with more than 7,000 built the best-selling Aston Martin of its day, evolved from which Jaguar's platform?
XJS
The XJS-derived DB7 was the only Aston Martin with a steel unit body inherited from Jaguar, and it was built in Bloxham, Oxfordshire, rather than at the traditional works.
Tadek Marek won the 1939 Rally Poland in a Chevrolet before joining the Polish Army in Britain, and his eight-cylinder unit first appeared in 1969.
Q 24Which 1940 prototype, among the first working concept cars, reportedly convinced a tractor magnate to buy Aston Martin?
Atom
The Atom was finished in 1940 and its chassis became the basis of every post-war Aston Martin into the late 1950s, with 27 patents filed on its technology.
Q 25The 1948 Aston Martin 2-Litre Sports, retrospectively the DB1, won which 24-hour race outright as a prototype?
Spa 24 Hours
The Spa 24 Hours entry was meant only as a durability test, yet the win failed to sell a 'Spa Replica' series and just 15 production cars found buyers.
Q 26Aston Martin's very first car of 1915 mated a Coventry-Simplex engine to the 1908 chassis of which Italian marque?
Isotta Fraschini
The Isotta Fraschini-based special was built at Henniker Mews in Kensington, but the First World War stopped production before it could begin.
Q 27Which wealthy racer, builder of the aero-engined Chitty Bang Bang cars, funded Aston Martin in the early 1920s?
Louis Zborowski
Louis Zborowski raced for Aston Martin in the 1922 French Grand Prix, and his exploits inspired Fleming's children's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Q 28Which engineer was both technical director and designer of every new Aston Martin from 1926 to 1937?
Augustus Bertelli
Augustus Bertelli's cars were mostly open two-seaters bodied by his brother Enrico, and the team cars were big winners in national and international competition.
Q 29Before its 1950s move to Buckinghamshire, Aston Martin built cars in a former aircraft works in which Middlesex town?
Feltham
The Feltham works had belonged to Whitehead Aircraft, and the DB6 of 1965 was the first model engineered after the factory finally left it.
Q 30Which designer of many title-winning F1 cars joined Aston Martin in March 2025 as a shareholder, later team principal?
Adrian Newey
Adrian Newey signed in September 2024 after leaving his previous team that May, arriving in time to shape the car for the 2026 regulations.