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From the Delaunay-Belleville that won over Tsar Nicholas II to the Facel-Vega of the 1950s, this quiz traces the golden age of French luxury automobiles: exceptional coachwork, long-vanished marques and artisanal craftsmanship. Can you recognize these elegant machines from another era?

The quiz covers 60 exceptional models from the 1900s to the 1950s: great French houses such as Delage, Delahaye, Talbot-Lago and Hotchkiss, as well as Alfa Romeo, Lancia and Maserati from Italy, Mercedes-Benz, Maybach and Horch from Germany, and Rolls-Royce, Bentley and Jaguar from Britain. Each question shows the car in a photo: your job is to identify the marque.

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This quiz currently has 76 questions, ranging from easy to hard, available in French, English and Spanish when the Spanish translation is available.

Luxury Car quiz: trivia questions and answers

Warm up before the quiz with these 14 trivia questions and their explained answers: click a question to reveal the answer.

Easy questions

What is the name of the winged figurine on the bonnet of Rolls-Royce cars?

Answer: Spirit of Ecstasy. Created in 1911 by Charles Sykes, it was reportedly modelled on Eleanor Thornton. On recent models, it retracts automatically to prevent theft.

In which Alsatian town are Bugatti hypercars assembled?

Answer: Molsheim. Ettore Bugatti founded his brand there in 1909. After decades in eclipse, Volkswagen revived it in the same place, with the Veyron and then the Chiron.

Which country does the hypercar maker Koenigsegg come from?

Answer: Sweden. Founded in 1994 by Christian von Koenigsegg, it is based at a former military airfield. Its logo uses the founder's family coat of arms, and a ghost emblem adorns some models.

What is hidden in the doors of modern Rolls-Royce cars?

Answer: Umbrellas. Slotted into a heated, ventilated compartment to dry, they pop out at the touch of a button. A typical touch from a brand that cares about every detail.

Where do most Lamborghini model names, such as Miura, Murciélago or Aventador, come from?

Answer: Famous fighting bulls. Ferruccio Lamborghini, a bullfighting enthusiast, named his cars after renowned breeds or bulls. Murciélago reportedly survived 24 sword strokes in 1879.

Hard questions

Who is the Bugatti Chiron named after?

Answer: Monégasque driver Louis Chiron. Louis Chiron won many races driving Bugattis in the 1920s-30s. The Veyron honoured driver Pierre Veyron, winner at Le Mans in 1939.

Which country does Horacio Pagani, founder of the Italian hypercar brand Pagani, come from?

Answer: Argentina. Passionate since childhood, he emigrated to Italy and worked at Lamborghini before founding his brand. His Zonda and Huayra are handmade near Modena.

What was special about the cabin of the McLaren F1, a 1992 supercar?

Answer: The driver sat in the middle, between two passengers. Designed by Gordon Murray, a former F1 engineer, it was the world's fastest production car for several years, at over 380 km/h. Its engine bay was lined with gold, an excellent heat insulator.

The brand name 'Mercedes' was originally the name of…

Answer: The daughter of Emil Jellinek, a major Daimler customer and dealer. Jellinek raced Daimlers under the pseudonym 'Mercedes', his daughter's name. In 1901, he ordered a series of cars on condition they bore that name.

What do the letters 'DB' in Aston Martin models such as the DB5 or DB12 stand for?

Answer: David Brown, owner of the brand from 1947. A British industrialist who made tractors and gears, he bought the struggling brand and launched this line. He sold it in 1972, but the initials stayed.

Which German carmaker has owned the British brand Rolls-Royce Motor Cars since 2003?

Answer: BMW. After a legal battle with Volkswagen, BMW obtained the Rolls-Royce name and emblem, while Volkswagen kept Bentley. The two former British sister brands thus have rival German owners.

What nationality was Ettore Bugatti, founder of the famous Alsatian brand?

Answer: Italian. Born in Milan in 1881, the son of a furniture designer, he founded his brand in Molsheim, then German territory. He took French nationality in 1946, shortly before his death.

Why isn't the Porsche 911 called the '901', its original name in 1963?

Answer: Peugeot claimed three-digit names with a zero in the middle. Peugeot had used this numbering since 1929 (201, 403…). Porsche replaced the zero with a 1, and the 911 became an icon.

Which car group has owned the British brand Bentley since 1998?

Answer: Volkswagen. Bentley, long tied to Rolls-Royce, was separated from its sister brand in the 1998 takeover. Its cars are still built in Crewe, England.

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