Q 01/05

A drivable full-size Bugatti Chiron replica was built from over a million pieces of which toy?

A) Meccano

B) Lego

C) K'Nex

D) Erector

Answer · why

B) Lego

Lego Technic pieces made up the working 2018 replica, with 2,304 toy motors as its engine. It produced about 5 horsepower, against roughly 1,500 for t...

Q 02/05

Which animal tops the Bugatti Royale's radiator, cast from a sculpture by Ettore Bugatti's brother?

A) A panther

B) A greyhound

C) An elephant

D) A rearing stallion

Answer · why

C) An elephant

An elephant tops the Royale's radiator, cast from a work by Ettore's brother, who had died in 1916. He was renowned for his bronzes of wild animals.

Q 03/05

Which car group revived Bugatti and made the 1,001-horsepower Veyron its first production model?

A) Volkswagen

B) General Motors

C) Daimler-Benz

D) Renault

Answer · why

A) Volkswagen

Volkswagen set up Bugatti Automobiles in December 1998 and brought the marque home to Molsheim. The Veyron was due in 2003 but took until 2005 to reac...

Q 04/05

Which Formula One driver bought a yellow Bugatti EB 110 in 1994, then crashed it into a truck?

A) Ayrton Senna

B) Heinz-Harald Frentzen

C) Nigel Mansell

D) Michael Schumacher

Answer · why

D) Michael Schumacher

Michael Schumacher crashed the yellow EB 110 into a truck and blamed inadequate brakes. He had the car repaired anyway and kept it until 2003.

Q 05/05

Ettore Bugatti founded his car company in 1909 at Molsheim, a town that then belonged to which country?

A) Switzerland

B) Germany

C) Belgium

D) Austria

Answer · why

B) Germany

Germany had held Alsace since 1871, and the region returned to France only in 1919. So the famous French marque was founded by an Italian on what was ...