Let's have a motoring Quiz

AMKC · 24-11-2022 12:48pm #1

So my first question for you all.

VW nearly named one of there cars the Pony.

The VW Pony can you imagine it no me either lol. It just does not work. Anyway Hyundai got the rights to use the Pony name first so VW named there car something else

Can anyone name which VW model it was?

Whoever gets it starts the next question.

ELM327 · 24-11-2022 12:52pm

I was between the golf and the polo. Gonna guess the golf as it was named the rabbit in the US for a while.

AndyBoBandy · 24-11-2022 12:54pm

Passat

bazz26 · 24-11-2022 1:05pm

Derby.

AMKC · 24-11-2022 1:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915171#Comment_119915171

Correct.

One other fascinating detail from Giugiaro, now a sprightly 84 years of age, is that VW originally planned to call the Mk1 Golf the Volkswagen Pony but lost out when Hyundai nabbed the moniker by launching first.

Your turn.

ELM327 · 24-11-2022 1:29pm

Excellent. To be fair that was a guess rather than one I knew.

A fairly easy one - that could probably be googled but try get it without. Everyone loves a large displacement engine and we've seen plenty of v8, v10, w12 and v12 petrol engines. We've also seen v8 and v10 diesels.

However, what car was the first production car with a v12 diesel engine?

AMKC · 24-11-2022 1:37pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915356#Comment_119915356

Was it the VW Touareg?

AndyBoBandy · 24-11-2022 1:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915356#Comment_119915356

The Phaeton?

I don't know much about them other than a bit on a car show (Top Gear?) when they first came out, and the list of requirements it had to have from the VW boss at the time, and 1 requirement was to be able to drive for 10 hours straight at 190mph or something...

ELM327 · 24-11-2022 2:19pm

No, neither of those. They were both V10 diesels (a great engine in its own right!)

ants09 · 24-11-2022 2:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119915356#Comment_119915356

Audi 2008–2012 Q7 SUV

ELM327 · 24-11-2022 2:57pm

Yes, well done if not googled. One of my favorite car engine combos of all time. Just because it is ridiculous and makes no sense. While a v8 diesel may make sense due to the inherent torque of a v8, a v12 has little to no low down torque and therefore as a diesel one of two main advantages are lost.

Go on there @ants09

ants09 · 24-11-2022 3:24pm

Which car had a 9 kW (12 hp) at 5800 rpm engine and a top speed of 85kph

AndyBoBandy · 24-11-2022 4:50pm

Citroen 2CV?

ELM327 · 24-11-2022 6:25pm

12hp is super low. That's got to be a prewar car, I'll go with the original Daimler.

ants09 · 24-11-2022 6:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119916549#Comment_119916549

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917010#Comment_119917010

Both wrong

Ekm its a post war car in the 1950's and German but not Daimler

AMKC · 24-11-2022 6:57pm

The VW Beetle

colm_mcm · 24-11-2022 7:58pm

12hp isn’t a lot, I’m thinking Messerschmitt or maybe an Invacar or some old Reliant.

PsychoPete · 24-11-2022 8:28pm

Isetta

AMKC · 24-11-2022 8:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917480#Comment_119917480

You could be right. It's not the beetle anyway the Original had twice that power lol.

ants09 · 24-11-2022 8:41pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917480#Comment_119917480

Congratulations

Your next 😁

PsychoPete · 24-11-2022 9:01pm

What manufacturer put reverse lights on the front of their cars ?

Buddy Bubs · 24-11-2022 9:02pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917585#Comment_119917585

Citroën?

PsychoPete · 24-11-2022 9:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917491#Comment_119917491

One of my Uncles had an Isetta and two Heinkels

colm_mcm · 24-11-2022 9:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917585#Comment_119917585

Umm my fog lights come on when I put it in reverse, maybe Land Rover, aren’t front and rear parking/indicator lights the same front and back on the old stuff?

PsychoPete · 24-11-2022 9:26pm

Not Citroën or Land Rover but they called them "side guidance reversing lights"

ants09 · 24-11-2022 9:31pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917585#Comment_119917585

Sierra Alpha Alpha Bina

PsychoPete · 24-11-2022 9:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917710#Comment_119917710

Correct!

ants09 · 24-11-2022 9:40pm

Which car model was known as “Tin Lizzie” ?

hoodie6029 · 24-11-2022 10:09pm

Ford model T

ants09 · 24-11-2022 10:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119917867#Comment_119917867

Congratulations

Your turn now

hoodie6029 · 24-11-2022 11:08pm

The butt of jokes for years, the Lada Riva was a repurposed version of which European saloon car for the USSR market?

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