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THE QUTOPIAN JOB Siddharth Mishra Second Year B.Tech (Mechanical)
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Auto quiz by me for Qutopia's seventh session of the year 2014-15.
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THE QUTOPIAN JOB
Siddharth MishraSecond Year
B.Tech (Mechanical)
Rules :
- +10 direct
- +15/-10 on pounce
- Making engine rev noises are allowed. Unless it’s that of a Ford Focus.
Q. X is a Swedish manufacturer of high-performance sports cars, also known as hyper-cars, based in Ängelholm.
The company was founded in 1994 in Sweden by Christian von Y, with the intention of producing a world-class supercar. Many years of development and prototyping led to the company's first street-legal production car delivery in 2002.
Answer
Q. Even compared to other heavy passenger vehicles, without the diesel engine options have very poor fuel economy. Because the X is built to the over-8500-lb GVW class, its fuel economy is neither published by the U.S. EPA nor counted toward Corporate Average Fuel Economy. For example, X in one engine configuration averages an estimated 14 mpg-US(17 L/100 km; 17 mpg-imp) on the highway and 10 mpg-US (24 L/100 km; 12 mpg-imp) in the city. It has a curb weight of over 6,000 lb (2,700 kg), making it technically illegal for use on some streets in the U.S.
ID the car.
Answer
Q. General Motors Company, commonly known as GM, is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit, Michigan that designs, manufactures, markets and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts and sells financial services.
After 2010, GM has decided to focus primarily on four of its brands, known as the ‘four core brands’.
Name all four. (No part points)
Answer.
Buick
Cadillac
GMC
Chevrolet
Q. Connect.
Answer.
Le Mans.
Q. ID the car.
Answer.
Tesla Roadster.
The Roadster was the first highway-capable all-electric vehicle in serial production for sale in the United States in the modern era. The Roadster was also the first production automobile to use lithium-ion battery cells and first mass production BEV to travel more than 200 miles (320 km) per charge.
Q. Who is the only driver to be posthumously awarded the Formula One World Driver’s Championship?
Picture on next slide.
Answer.
Karl Jochen Rindt
He was killed during practice for the Italian GP, and the Championship was confirmed after the race ended.
Q. The Ferrari 250 GTO is a GT car which was produced by Ferrari from 1962 to 1964. A total of 39 cars were made between 1962-64, spanning two different versions.
This particular model has been the subject of much attention in the last couple of days. Why?
Answer
It was sold for $38,115,000, setting a new record for the highest price paid for a car at auction.
Incidentally, the mst expensive car of all time remains a ‘63 Ferrari 250 GTO, sold for $52 million, at a private sale.
Q. ID the car.
Answer.
Q. The XY is an automotive charitable event held each year on the X Golf Links in X, California, considered the most prestigious event of its kind. It is the finale of a week long festival of classic cars events in the Monterey area every year. A Y (French, literally "a competition of elegance") is an event open to both prewar and postwar collector cars in which they are judged for authenticity, function, history, and style.
Answer.
Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
Q. ID the logo.
Answer.
Q. The Mazda Savanna is a rotary-powered automobile sold by the Japanese automobile manufacturer Mazda between 1971 and 1978.
For the original 1971 version of Savanna, Mazda fitted its rotary engine to the Mazda Grand Familia to create a separately marketed product. The subsequent two generations, released in 1978 and 1985, respectively—Mazda fitted the rotary engines to a unique coupe body that sold internationally as the Y.
Y?
Answer.
Mazda RX-7.
Q. X was the first motorbike sold by Y in 1950. This first Y motorcycle was a 48 cc bike weighing 98 lb (44 kg) with a top speed of 40 mph (64 km/h) had a 15 mm carburetor giving just under 200 mpg-(1.2 L/100 km; 240 mpg). Y soon dropped the X name in favor of "55M" and "65TL".
Answer.
X – Cucciolo
Y - Ducati
LVC.
The following slides show the evolution of a car, from its first edition to the latest one.
+50/-30
+30/-10
+15/-5
+5
Answer.
Thank you!
