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Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - Joey Whelan

Hey fellow car lovers!

Just a bit of fun to beat the boredom! I've found this super hard petrol head quiz that I'm convinced is impossible to get full marks on - I could only get 3 haha!

Here's the quiz - link deleted- Let me know how you get on :D

I'll be amazed if you can get more than 4 aha!

Edited by Avant on 29/06/2020 at 16:49

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - thunderbird

I'll be amazed if you can get more than 4 aha!

I'll be amazed if anyone is daft enough to click on your spam advert. Wonder if its connected to xxxx?

Edited by Avant on 29/06/2020 at 16:56

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - Joey Whelan

No spam here my friend! Just a fun little quiz, feel free to do it or not! :-)

Edited by Avant on 29/06/2020 at 16:49

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - Trilogy.

3 months late. They don't need any more business.

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - Avant

By all means put up a quiz, but don't do it with the name of your company in the link. You may not see it as spam, but it's still an attempt to get the company's name in the frame without paying for advertising.

Here's a little quiz for the older generation like me:

1 What was the model name of the Jowett utility sold alongside the Javelin?

2 What was the 1200cc version of the mid-50s Morris Oxford called?

3 On which make of car was the Marauder (1950) based?

4 Which make produced the Hunter ten years before the Hillman Hunter?

5 In car terms, which is the odd one out - Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Cornwall, Somerset?

6 How would you know you were being followed at night by a Wolseley?

7 How much did the first Mini cost to buy in 1959?

8 Who made the Viceroy?

9 Who else, apart from Peugeot, made a 405?

10 Who produced the Equipe in the 1960s using Triumph components?

Edited by Avant on 29/06/2020 at 16:55

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - Penumbra

Without Mr/Miss Google I can answer

2. Cowley - I had one

5. Cornwall (I think)

6. Illuminated grille badge

8. Vauxhall

10. Bond

Oh Lord - I'm officially old now!

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - craig-pd130

1. Jowett Jupiter

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - RT

1. Jowett Jupiter

That was Jowett's sports car.

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - RT

1) Bradford

2) ------ (via Wikipedia)

3) ----- (via Wikipedia)

4) Singer

5) Cornwall

6) The grille badge lights up

7) £495

8) Vauxhall

9) ------- (via Google)

10) Bond

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - galileo

1) Bradford

2) ------ (via Wikipedia)

3) ----- (via Wikipedia)

4) Singer

5) Cornwall

6) The grille badge lights up

7) £495

8) Vauxhall

9) ------- (via Google)

10) Bond

No 9 -Bristol

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - John F

Thanks Avant - that was fun! Had to resort to wiki for some.

I was born a couple of miles from the Jowett factory. The town was hilly, and the story goes that if the cars made it to the top of the hill from the factory they were OK! I would have loved a no. 9. Sort of thing no. 10 might have driven ;-)

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - RaineMan

Thank you for an enjoyable quiz Avant. I must be getting old as I got 8.5. The Marauder stumped me and I was 10% out on the Mini. A teacher used to have Javelin and I remember him tinkering with it quite frequently. None of us ever got a ride in it although we did in another's Series Hawk (with through-flow floors). Last time I passed my school all the cars were new or nearly new whereas in my day only the headmaster had a new car and many others were quite elderly.

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - Trilogy.

7. not enough

Really Hard Petrolhead Quiz! Just a bit of fun! - John F

7. About right. This from Wikipaedia.....

On its launch in 1959 the British Motor Corporation's Mini car was sold at a starting price (including taxes) of £496 for its most basic model, and it was estimated that BMC lost £30 per car sold at this price. However, the headline-grabbing price was significantly lower than that of the car's contemporary rival, the Ford Anglia—indeed the only cheaper four-wheeled, four-seater car on the British car market at the time was very basic and old-fashioned Ford Popular, which sold for only £2 less than the basic Mini. While BMC lost money on every basic Mini sold, such cars were unattractive to many buyers since they lacked features such as heaters, floor carpets and opening rear windows and BMC priced the better-equipped models (which cost from £537) to make a small profit, using the basic car as a loss-leader to allow the promotion of a starting price below the significant £500 mark and to make the Mini at least appear to undercut its main rival on price. The ploy did not work entirely as BMC intended—even in its most basic form, the Mini was far superior in many areas to its rivals while also being lower in price. BMC sold far more basic Minis than it had anticipated, meaning that it sold many Minis at a significant loss. Despite the car being a bestseller in Britain (and several other markets) it made little to no profit for many years.