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50 free Supercars trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
A supercar is a strange thing to build: far quicker than any road allows, wildly expensive and usually impractical. That is exactly why people love them. Since the 1960s, a handful of makers in Italy, Britain, Germany and beyond have competed to build the lowest, loudest and most powerful car on the road, and each generation has left a few machines that ended up on bedroom walls. This quiz asks you to name the supercar, or the person or place behind it, from a short clue. You will meet the wedge-shaped legends of the 1970s and 80s, the record chasers of the 1990s, and modern hybrid and electric hypercars with well over a thousand horsepower. Other questions cover the designers and engineers, the factories and test tracks, the odd origin stories, and the films and television shows that made certain cars famous. It is written for car fans of every level. The opening questions are the gentlest, the later ones reward real enthusiasts, and every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will finish knowing more than when you started.
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Q 01Which Lamborghini does Bruce Wayne drive in the Batman films Batman Begins and The Dark Knight?
Murciélago
Murciélago is the Spanish word for bat, a nod to its owner's secret identity. Lamborghini lent the makers of The Dark Knight three cars for a single chase scene.
Q 02Bugatti, founded by Italian-born Ettore Bugatti and revived by a German group, builds its hypercars in which country?
France
France is where Bugatti builds its cars, at Molsheim in Alsace. The town was under German rule when Ettore Bugatti set up there in 1909, and the modern headquarters is a château that was once his guest house.
Q 03Which McLaren road car of the 1990s seats its driver in the centre and lines its engine bay with gold foil?
F1
The F1 used gold foil as a heat reflector around its V12, about 16 grams of it per car. In 1998 a prototype reached 240.1 mph, a world record for a production car at the time.
Q 04Lamborghini supercars such as the Diablo and the Gallardo are traditionally named after famous examples of what?
Fighting bulls
Fighting bulls became the theme after Ferruccio Lamborghini toured a renowned breeder's ranch in Seville in 1962. He was so impressed that he put one on the company badge.
Q 05Which Lotus sports car turned into a submarine in the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me?
Esprit
The Esprit seen on screen was a very early S1 model. Its sharp, straight-lined 'folded paper' shape was the work of the prolific Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro.
Q 06McLaren named its track-focused hypercar of 2018 after which Brazilian champion of its Formula One team?
Ayrton Senna
Ayrton Senna raced for McLaren's Formula One team from 1988 to 1993, and the carmaker shares the rights to his family name with the Instituto Ayrton Senna.
Q 07Which wedge-shaped Lamborghini, built from 1974 to 1990, takes its name from a Piedmontese exclamation of astonishment?
Countach
Countach comes from 'contacc', a dialect word of amazement that a worker kept uttering as the prototype took shape. Its upward-swinging doors became a company trademark.
Q 08Which film franchise featured the Lykan HyperSport, a supercar with diamonds set into its headlights, in Abu Dhabi?
Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious put the Lykan in its seventh film, where the heroes steal a chip hidden in one owned by a billionaire prince. The car's maker, W Motors, was founded in Lebanon in 2012.
Q 09Which British motoring show ranked supercars on a Power Laps board after timed runs around Dunsfold Aerodrome?
Top Gear
Top Gear handed each car to its anonymous test driver, The Stig, for a flat-out lap of the Surrey airfield. The time then went up against every earlier contender.
Q 10Which Bugatti, named after a Le Mans-winning racing driver, needs ten radiators to cool its quad-turbo engine?
Veyron
The Veyron honours Pierre Veyron, who won the 1939 24 Hours of Le Mans for the marque. Its engine makes 1,001 metric horsepower, and the original car could reach 407 km/h (253 mph).
Q 11Which twin-turbo V8 Ferrari of 1987 was the last car personally approved by company founder Enzo Ferrari?
F40
The F40 was designed to celebrate the marque's 40th anniversary, with a planned run of just four hundred cars. Demand was so strong that more than 1,300 were eventually built.
Q 12Ferruccio Lamborghini resolved to build his own cars after complaining to Enzo Ferrari about which part of his Ferrari?
The clutch
The clutch kept failing, and by his own account Enzo Ferrari told him he might drive a tractor but would never handle a Ferrari properly. Other versions of the story differ in the details.
Q 13Which 1980s Ferrari, known for the long strakes along its doors, was driven in white on TV's Miami Vice?
Testarossa
Q 21Which American supercar of 2005 revived the shape of the 1960s racer built to end Ferrari's run of Le Mans wins?
Ford GT
The Ford GT stands about four inches taller than the 40-inch-high GT40 that inspired it. It could not reuse the GT40 name because a small Ohio parts company owned the trademark and no deal was reached.
Q 22On models such as the Ferrari 488 Spider and the McLaren 720S Spider, what does the word Spider signify?
A convertible roof
A convertible roof is said to owe the label to the horse-drawn era: light carriages with big, thin-spoked wheels were nicknamed spiders, and the name later passed to open sports cars.
Q 23In which country does Koenigsegg build hypercars in a former fighter-jet hangar, under the old squadron's ghost badge?
Testarossa means 'red head' in Italian, after the red-painted cam covers of its 12-cylinder engine. The strakes were there because several countries outlawed large openings on cars.
Q 14Which Japanese performance car, built from 2007 to 2025, inherited the nickname Godzilla from its Skyline ancestors?
Nissan GT-R
The Nissan GT-R kept a nickname that the Australian magazine Wheels gave the R32 model in 1989. It was the sixth generation to carry the letters, though no longer part of the Skyline line-up.
Q 15Which Audi supercar, built on a platform shared with Lamborghini, appeared in all three Iron Man films?
R8
The R8 turned up as a V8 coupé in Iron Man, a V10 Spyder in the sequel and an electric e-tron prototype in the third film. Its second generation shares its underpinnings with the Huracán.
Q 16Which German circuit, nicknamed the Green Hell by Jackie Stewart, is the benchmark for production-car lap times?
Nürburgring
Nürburgring lap times on the old Nordschleife loop have been a yardstick for road cars for decades. Carmakers share exclusive use of the track for sixteen weeks a year to develop new models.
Q 17Which German city, home to Porsche's headquarters, supplies the coat of arms at the centre of the Porsche crest?
Stuttgart
Stuttgart takes its name from an old German word for stud farm, because it was founded in 950 to breed warhorses. The rest of the crest borrows the arms of the former state of Württemberg.
Q 18Which German carmaker took control of Lamborghini, Bugatti and Bentley within the single year of 1998?
Volkswagen
Volkswagen placed Lamborghini under the control of its Audi division, then set up a new Bugatti company that December after taking over the naming rights from an Italian businessman.
Q 19Which door style, first seen on the 1968 Alfa Romeo Carabo concept, rotates straight up from a hinge at the front?
Scissor doors
Scissor doors reached the road on Lamborghini's V12 flagships in the 1970s and are widely nicknamed Lambo doors. Owners have to take care when opening them under a low ceiling.
Q 20Which Lamborghini of 1966, with its V12 mounted sideways behind the cabin, is often called the first supercar?
Miura
The Miura's transverse mid-engine layout was a break from every earlier Lamborghini. Bertone finished styling the prototype only days before its debut at the Geneva Motor Show.
Sweden
Sweden is where Christian von Koenigsegg founded the firm in 1994. After it moved onto an abandoned air force base at Ängelholm, it adopted the resident squadron's ghost symbol as a tribute.
Q 24In which small town near Modena has Ferrari had its factory since the early 1940s?
Maranello
Maranello became the base in 1943, when Enzo Ferrari moved his workshops out of Modena during the war. It now houses both the road-car factory and the Formula One team, Scuderia Ferrari.
Q 25Ferrari's badge sets its black prancing horse on which background colour, the civic colour of Modena?
Yellow
Yellow was Enzo Ferrari's own addition, in honour of his home city. The horse came from the family of Francesco Baracca, a fallen flying ace who had painted it on his aeroplane.
Q 26Which Italian hybrid flagship was introduced in 2013 alongside the McLaren P1 and the Porsche 918 Spyder?
LaFerrari
LaFerrari means 'The Ferrari' in Italian, because it was intended to be the definitive one. The run was set at 499 coupés, each costing more than a million euros, before a 500th was built for an earthquake-relief auction.
Q 27Which hypercar, named after a Monégasque Grand Prix driver, was clocked at 304.77 mph in a 2019 test run?
Bugatti Chiron
The Bugatti Chiron that made the run was a pre-production Super Sport 300+ driven by Andy Wallace at the Ehra-Lessien test track. Its namesake, Louis Chiron, won the 1931 French Grand Prix.
Q 28Which engine layout, in effect two narrow-angle V8s joined together, did Bugatti's 8-litre hypercars use from 2005?
W16
W16 engines are rarely built. This one packs four banks of four cylinders and four turbochargers into 8.0 litres, and it first reached the road making 1,001 metric horsepower.
Q 29Which British comedian owned a McLaren supercar from 1997 to 2015 and crashed it twice, the second time into a tree?
Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson saw the car catch fire in the 2011 crash, and the repair took more than a year. The £910,000 bill was reported as the largest car insurance payout Britain had seen.
Q 30McLaren takes its name from founder Bruce McLaren, a racing driver and engineer born in which country?
New Zealand
New Zealand's Bruce McLaren was born in Auckland in 1937 and founded his racing team in 1963. He was killed in 1970 while testing one of his own cars at Goodwood.