Q 01/05

BMW's blue-and-white roundel is wrongly said to show which aircraft part, a myth fuelled by a 1929 advert?

A) A jet turbine

B) A propeller

C) A radial engine

D) A tail rotor

Answer · why

B) A propeller

A propeller spinning against a blue sky appeared in a 1929 BMW advert, and the story stuck. The colours really come from the flag of the company's hom...

Q 02/05

Which German carmaker's four interlocking rings stand for the four firms that banded together as Auto Union?

A) Audi

B) BMW

C) Volkswagen

D) Mercedes-Benz

Answer · why

A) Audi

Audi shared the badge with Horch, DKW and Wanderer, one ring for each. August Horch founded two of the four, starting the second after he fell out wit...

Q 03/05

Which horned animal leapt from the bonnet of Dodge cars from 1932 and later gave its name to a truck brand?

A) A stag

B) A bison

C) A ram

D) An ibex

Answer · why

C) A ram

A ram leapt from Dodge bonnets until 1954, shrinking over the years to just a head with curling horns. It came back in the 1980s, and the trucks were ...

Q 04/05

The original Corvette emblem lost which national banner before production, as putting it on a product was illegal?

A) The Union Jack

B) The French Tricolour

C) The Canadian Red Ensign

D) The Stars and Stripes

Answer · why

D) The Stars and Stripes

The Stars and Stripes had to go because the US Flag Code bars the national flag from commercial products. When a V8 engine arrived, the letter V in th...

Q 05/05

Subaru's badge of six stars shows which star cluster, whose Japanese name the company took as its own?

A) The Pleiades

B) The Hyades

C) Orion's Belt

D) The Southern Cross

Answer · why

A) The Pleiades

The Pleiades are called Subaru in Japan and the Seven Sisters in the West. The badge shows only six because, by tradition, one of the sisters is invis...