Q 01/05

What does 'SUV' stand for?

A) Sport Utility Vehicle

B) Sport Urban Vehicle

C) Standard Utility Vehicle

D) Standard Urban Vehicle

Answer · why

A) Sport Utility Vehicle

Sport Utility Vehicle: in the US most were long classed as light trucks, which let them meet looser fuel-economy rules than ordinary cars.

Q 02/05

The Tesla Model S, produced from 2012, won which magazine's Car of the Year award for 2013?

A) Motor Trend

B) Car and Driver

C) Road & Track

D) Autocar

Answer · why

A) Motor Trend

Motor Trend's judges voted unanimously for the Tesla Model S, the first winner in the award's 64 years without an internal-combustion engine.

Q 03/05

Which Italian designer, also behind the first Volkswagen Golf, styled the gull-winged DMC DeLorean?

A) Giorgetto Giugiaro

B) Marcello Gandini

C) Giovanni Michelotti

D) Nuccio Bertone

Answer · why

A) Giorgetto Giugiaro

Giorgetto Giugiaro of Italdesign drew the DeLorean; its maker went bankrupt in 1982 after about 9,000 cars, and Back to the Future made it a star thre...

Q 04/05

Which Swedish carmaker, born from an aircraft manufacturer, went bankrupt in 2011?

A) Saab

B) Volvo

C) Koenigsegg

D) Scania

Answer · why

A) Saab

Saab began as a warplane maker, and its first car, the 92, showed it: the whole teardrop body was stamped from one sheet of metal and had a drag coeff...

Q 05/05

Ford's moving assembly line for complete cars began running in 1913 at which Michigan plant?

A) Mack Avenue

B) Highland Park

C) Piquette Avenue

D) Willow Run

Answer · why

B) Highland Park

Highland Park's moving line cut the time to build a Model T from more than 12 hours to about 93 minutes.