Spec/Fact-based Car Quiz

[GT4_Rule]

Ghia?

 

[Tornado]

Marcello Gandini?
Claudio Zampolli?
I think "Ghia" is the right answer though.

 

[opendriver]

Lusso Berlinetta?
Zagato?
..Im stumped...

 

[Revheadnz]

Still no-one has it....

 

[GT4_Rule]

If it's not Ghia...then I'm out of choices.

 

[Slicks]

Was it a coachbuilder, or a complete manufacturer?

 

[GT4_Rule]

Franco Scaglione?

 

[Slicks]

Scaglietti?
Lusso?

 

[Revheadnz]

I would call it a manufacturer. And still no-one is right.

 

[High-Test]

Autobianchi?

 

[Tornado]

Bizzarrini, with Giotto Bizzarrini?

 

[Revheadnz]

Bizzarrini, with Giotto Bizzarrini?

Toronado, you are correct!

Your turn to ask a question now.

 

[Tornado]

What was the second car in the world to have a folding hardtop?

 

[High-Test]

1961 Lincoln Continental?

1958 Ford Skyliner?

 

[Tornado]

No and No.
The Continental had a power-folding ragtop. Not a hardtop.

 

[Firebird]

Mitsubishi 3000GT?

 

[Tornado]

Yes.

 

[GT4_Rule]

3000GT Hardtop? Never heard of that before...

 

[Tornado]

3000GT Hardtop? Never heard of that before...

3000GT VR-4 Spyder. I knew it existed from an old ad in Automobile.

 

[GT4_Rule]

Wow. That car looks sexy!

 

[Firebird]

Name the car in which the first production turbocharged V8 was installed.

 

[GT4_Rule]

Bristol Type 603 of 1976?

Or is it even older?

 

[Rogue Ssv]

Buick Grand National?
GT4, yes a 3kgt convertible hardtop does exist, and its very rare and very sexy.

 

[GT4_Rule]

'62 Olds Jetfire with 215ci V8?

 

[Firebird]

Bristol Type 603 of 1976?

Or is it even older?

The first turbocharged Bristol was actually a 412, the Beaufighter, which debuted in 1980. The 603 wasn't turbocharged until 1982, in the Brigand.

The Beaufighter ia very close, though.

 

[Firebird]

'62 Olds Jetfire with 215ci V8?

Spot on!

It was a bit of a trick question: the first turbocharged V8 was in fact the first production turbo ever, the Oldsmobile Jetfire. It debuted only a few weeks before the turbocharged '62 Chevrolet Corvair.

The Bristol Beaufighter was the third turbocharged V8, as far as I know, released shortly after the Pontiac Turbo Trans Am.

 

[GT4_Rule]

Yay! So I guess it's my go now?

This may be easy: what's the size of the largest disc brakes ever fitted for a road car, and which car is it from?

 

[Rogue Ssv]

12.5? I think?
Dodge Ram SRT10?
Or is it the International CXT?

 

[GT4_Rule]

Nahh.

 

[opendriver]

14 inches for the carrera GT?
EDIT:2004 Bentley Continental GT(16in)