Car Movie Trivia
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70 free Car Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Some films are about people who happen to drive. Car movies are the other kind, where the Mustang, the Charger, the Trans Am or the beat-up VW bus is a character with its own arc. This quiz covers the whole garage: chase classics like Bullitt and The French Connection, outlaw road films like Vanishing Point and Two-Lane Blacktop, racing dramas from Le Mans to Ford v Ferrari, and the comedies, from Smokey and the Bandit to Talladega Nights, that made cars funny. You will be asked which car Steve McQueen drove, why Bumblebee stopped being a Beetle, how many cars Memphis Raines had to steal in one night, and what speed a DeLorean needs to leave 1985. There are gimme questions for casual movie fans and genuinely tough ones about auction prices, filming locations and the real races behind the fiction. Every answer has been verified against the film's production record and links to its source, so when a friend insists the Bluesmobile was a Plymouth you can prove otherwise.
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Q 01What model of car does Steve McQueen drive through San Francisco in Bullitt?
Ford Mustang GT
McQueen's car is a Ford Mustang GT, a Highland Green 1968 GT 390 fastback; two were used for filming, and McQueen did some of the chase driving himself.
Q 02What car do the hitmen drive in the Bullitt chase?
Dodge Charger
The hitmen's car is a black 1968 Dodge Charger R/T with the 440 Magnum V8; it was reportedly quicker than McQueen's car, so the stunt drivers had to hold back.
Q 03Bullitt won an Academy Award in which category?
Best Film Editing
Bullitt's only Academy Award was Best Film Editing, for Frank P. Keller's cutting of the roughly ten-minute San Francisco chase sequence.
Q 04The hero car from Bullitt sold at Mecum Auctions in January 2020 for roughly how much?
$3.7 million
It fetched $3.7 million at Mecum's Kissimmee sale after decades in the Kiernan family's garage; McQueen had written to owner Robert Kiernan in 1977 asking to buy it back and was refused.
Q 05Who directed the 1983 horror film Christine, about a murderous car?
John Carpenter
John Carpenter directed Christine, released in December 1983; he took the job after The Thing flopped in 1982 and he needed a commercial hit.
Q 06Christine, the possessed car in the Stephen King story, is what make and model?
1958 Plymouth Fury
Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury; real Furys were rare and came only in Buckskin Beige, so the production dressed more than 20 Plymouth Belvederes and Savoys as red Furys.
Q 07In Ford v Ferrari, Christian Bale plays which real-life racing driver?
Ken Miles
Christian Bale plays Ken Miles, the British-born driver and engineer who developed Ford's GT40 with Carroll Shelby, played by Matt Damon; Miles died testing a Ford prototype at Riverside two months after the race.
Q 08Ford v Ferrari builds toward which race?
The 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans is the climax: Ford's GT40s finished 1-2-3, but a staged photo finish cost Bale's character the individual win the ending turns on.
Q 09Who wrote and directed Baby Driver (2017)?
Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright wrote and directed Baby Driver, choreographing its chases and gunfire to the soundtrack so the gear changes land on the beat.
Q 10Why does Baby, the getaway driver in Baby Driver, constantly listen to music?
To drown out his tinnitus
He plays music to drown out his tinnitus, a ringing left by the childhood car crash that killed his parents; the chases are cut to whatever his earbuds play.
Q 11Baby Driver is set in which American city?
Atlanta
Baby Driver is set in Atlanta; the story was written for California but moved to Georgia for the state's film tax credits, and the opening chase uses a red Subaru WRX.
Q 12In Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), how many cars must Memphis Raines steal in a single night?
50
Memphis must deliver 50 cars within 72 hours and the crew boosts them all in one night; each target gets a woman's code name, and 'Eleanor' is the one that always eludes him.
Q 13'Eleanor', the unicorn car in the 2000 Gone in 60 Seconds, is depicted as what?
A 1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang
The remake's Eleanor is a 1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang in grey, a custom fastback designed by Chip Foose; in the original 1974 film Eleanor was a yellow 1971 Mustang.
Q 21In Days of Thunder, Tom Cruise plays a NASCAR rookie named what?
Cole Trickle
Tom Cruise plays the rookie Cole Trickle; Robert Duvall plays his crew chief Harry Hogge, and Cruise met Nicole Kidman, cast as his neurosurgeon, on the set.
Q 22Who directed Days of Thunder (1990)?
Tony Scott
Tony Scott directed it, reuniting the Top Gun team of Scott, Cruise and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer; racing scenes were shot at Daytona and Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Q 23In Talladega Nights, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Jean Girard, a rival from which racing series?
Formula One
Jean Girard is a Formula One champion who arrives in NASCAR and reads Camus between laps; John C. Reilly's Cal Naughton Jr. is Ricky's 'Shake and Bake' partner.
Q 14Disney's Herbie, the racing car with a mind of its own, is what kind of car?
A Volkswagen Beetle
Herbie is a Volkswagen Beetle, a pearl-white 1963 model with red, white and blue stripes, who first raced in Disney's The Love Bug in 1968.
Q 15What racing number does Herbie carry?
53
Herbie races as number 53; producer Bill Walsh, a Dodgers fan, reportedly took it from pitcher Don Drysdale's jersey number.
Q 16Which actress rescues Herbie from a junkyard in Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)?
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan plays Maggie Peyton, who finds Herbie in a junkyard and takes him NASCAR racing; Michael Keaton plays her father, Ray Peyton Sr.
Q 17Mad Max: Fury Road was filmed mainly in which country?
Namibia
Fury Road was shot mainly in Namibia after unseasonal rain turned the planned outback locations around Broken Hill green; the Namib desert stood in for the wasteland.
Q 18Charlize Theron's character in Mad Max: Fury Road, the driver of the War Rig, is called what?
Imperator Furiosa
Charlize Theron plays Imperator Furiosa, who drives the War Rig with a prosthetic left arm; the film won six Academy Awards, the most of any film at the 2016 ceremony.
Q 19Max's black Pursuit Special in the original 1979 Mad Max was built from what car?
A Ford Falcon XB GT
The Pursuit Special is a Ford Falcon XB GT hardtop from 1973, an Australian-market coupe never sold in the United States, billed in the film as the 'last of the V8 Interceptors'.
Q 20The 1979 Mad Max held a Guinness World Record for what?
Highest box-office-to-budget ratio
Guinness listed Mad Max as the film with the highest box-office-to-budget ratio until The Blair Witch Project overtook it in 1999; George Miller put its cost at $350,000 to $400,000.
Q 24Ron Howard's Rush (2013) dramatizes the rivalry between Niki Lauda and which driver?
James Hunt
Chris Hemsworth plays James Hunt, who took the 1976 title by a single point after Lauda returned only six weeks after his fiery Nürburgring crash.
Q 25In the 1969 film The Italian Job, the gold heist takes place in which city?
Turin
The heist is set in Turin: the getaway cars race across the rooftop test track of Fiat's Lingotto factory and down the steps of the Gran Madre di Dio church.
Q 26Which small cars carry the gold in the 1969 Italian Job?
Mini Coopers
The gold rides in three Mini Coopers, one red, one white and one blue; BMC would not donate them, so the production bought the cars at trade price while Fiat offered as many of its own as wanted.
Q 27How does the 1969 Italian Job end?
With a coach teetering over a cliff edge
It ends with a coach teetering over a cliff edge, the gold sliding toward the rear doors; Michael Caine's Charlie Croker gets the last line, 'Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea.'
Q 28What does the Bandit drive in Smokey and the Bandit?
A Pontiac Trans Am
The Bandit drives a Pontiac Trans Am, a black-and-gold 1977 Special Edition; Trans Am sales roughly doubled in the two years after the film's release.
Q 29What cargo is the Bandit hired to bootleg from Texarkana back to Georgia in Smokey and the Bandit?
400 cases of Coors beer
Big Enos bets the Bandit he cannot haul 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana to Georgia in 28 hours; Coors was then sold only in a handful of western states, so hauling it to Georgia was bootlegging.
Q 30Smokey and the Bandit was the directorial debut of which former stuntman?
Hal Needham
Hal Needham, who had doubled for Burt Reynolds for years, made Smokey and the Bandit his directorial debut; it finished 1977 second at the domestic box office behind only Star Wars.