Mechanical and Features
Before Oscar Simler invented the turn signal in 1929, drivers used this to indicate turns.
What are hand signals?
Bavarian Motor Works is commonly referred to as this.
What is BMW?
This is the most popular color for a car.
What is white?
In this race, held in Indiana, 33 cars compete on a 2.5 mile long track. They race for 500 miles at speeds approaching 230 mph.
What is the Indianapolis 500?
This car company famously offered cars in any color you wanted as long as it was black?
What is the Ford Motor Company?
When needed, this safety feature deploys in less than 40 milliseconds.
What is an airbag?
This company is the world's largest automotive company
What is Toyota Motor Corporations?
What is the Mystery Machine?
This racing organization uses seven members per pit crew: two tire changers, two tire carriers, the jack man, the gas man, and the gas catch can man.
What is NASCAR?
This was the first car ever sent into space.
What is the Tesla Roadster?
In 1949, Nash Motors debuted a new feature that became required on all cars produced after 1968.
What is the seat belt?
This company holds the record for the fastest electric car in the world.
What is Tesla?
This is the name of the 1969 Dodge Charger in "Dukes of Hazzard"
What is the General Lee?
This type of race car consumes 15 to 22 gallons of fuel per mile and can produce 11,000 horsepower.
What is a Top Fuel Dragster?
This was the first foreign car company to come to the US.
What is Volkswagen?
In 1968, this product was specifically designed to be installed in a car's dashboard. It took 14 years to completely replace its predecessor, the 8-track.
What is the cassette tape?
This Italian luxury car company uses a bull as part of its logo.
What is Lamborghini?
This country accounts for 33% of global automobile sales.
What is China?
This Colorado race, known as 'The Race to the Clouds', runs up the side of a mountain. Drivers must must navigate 150 corners as they attempt to reach the summit as fast as humanly possible.
What is the Pikes Peak Hill Climb?
This car, manufactured by Ford, was the first to be mass produced.
What is the Model T?
While less expensive and more fuel efficient, only 4% of US drivers choose this type of transmission.
What is a manual or standard transmission?
This car company was founded in 1883 and is recognized as the oldest existing car company.
What is Mercedes Benz?
The Peel P50 is famous for being this.
What is the smallest car ever made?
This Formula 1 race has been held since 1929 (20 years before F1 even existed. If it wasn't already on the F1 schedule, it wouldn't be allowed due to safety reasons.
What is the Monaco Grand Prix?
Before this was invented in 1894, drivers used a tiller to control the car.
What is a steering wheel?