Autocar's 2021 Christmas quiz

15) How many cars was Nicholas Cage tasked with stealing in Gone In 60 Seconds? 

16) What was the Aston Martin Victor’s development code name?

17) Out of 28 cars built, how many McLaren F1 GTRs were never raced in period?

18) What was the name of Penelope Pitstop’s car in Wacky Races?

19) How did the underweight Porsche 935 “Baby” meet the DRM championship’s minimum weight requirements without alerting its competitors to its lightness?

20) What was the first Ferrari road car to feature independent rear suspension?

Answers 11) 1930 TT at Ards 12) VW Rallye Golf 13) Door mirror for 1986 Ford Transit mkII 14) Bugatti Veyron Super Sport, 5.0sec 15) Fifty 16) Muncher 17) Two 18) The Compact Pussycat 19) The hollow aluminium chassis was filled with molten lead 20) Ferrari 275 series

21) Which American importer was responsible for the creation of the Mercedes 300SL, BMW 507 and Porsche 356 Speedster?

22) What are the only parts of the new Ruf CTR to be sourced from Porsche?

23) Steve McQueen drove a Ford Mustang through San Francisco in Bullitt - but what car was chasing him? 

24) What car does the Lamborghini Huracan Performante’s bronze engine cover pay tribute to?

25) Which Japanese brand actually developed the Toyota 88C Group C car?

26) What is the only car to be legally recognised as art in Italy?

27) Why does the McLaren P1 have a metal rear number plate?

28) What car was the star of 1998 French action comedy Taxi? 

29) What prize did the winners of the first two rounds of the Jaguar XJR-15-only Intercontinental Challenge receive?

30) How many times has Aston Martin gone bankrupt?

Answers 21) Max Hoffman 22) The windscreen and the door glass 23) Dodge Charger 24) Lamborghini Diablo SE30 25) Dome 26) Ferrari 250 GTO 27) Plastic ones are melted by the heat 28) Peugeot 406 29) A JaguarSport XJR-S 30) Seven 

31) Mad Max drove “The Interceptor” - but what make of car was it really?

32) How many Porsche 930s were finished in Olive Green?

33) In Marvel’s Iron Man and Avengers films, Tony Stark was most often seen driving which German firm’s cars?

34) Before he was Bond, Roger Moore was The Saint. What car did he drive?

35) What does the “C” in the McLaren MP4-12C’s name stand for?

36) Which sci-fi action film threequel holds the record for most cars destroyed during production?

37) Who is the only F1 driver to fall into a river during a race? 

38) True or False: Vin Diesel has appeared in every Fast and Furious movie to date

39) What was the first mid-engined production road car?

40) A 1986 Fleetwood Bounder RV and Pontiac Aztec were the unlikely star cars of which TV drama? 

Answers  31) 1974 Ford Falcon XB GT 32) Two 33) Audi 34) Volvo P1800 35) Carbon fibre 36) Transformers: Dark of the Moon, 532 cars destroyed 37) Pedro de la Rosa 38) False 39) Matra Djet  40) Breaking Bad