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Stars, Stripes and Steering Wheels

Wagon makers, plumbers and racing drivers built America's car brands, and some vanished along the way. Do you know who founded what, and what became of it?

🏎️ Cars medium 20 questions ~7 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Cadillac is named after Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, the Frenchman who founded which city in 1701?
  • Louis Chevrolet, the racing driver who gave his name to Chevrolet, was born in which country?
  • Dodge trucks wore this animal as a mascot for decades. What is the truck brand that was split off from Dodge in 2010?
  • The Lincoln car brand takes its name from US President Abraham Lincoln.
  • Who founded General Motors in 1908?
  • Select ALL of these brands that have belonged to Ford Motor Company.
  • In 1914 Ford made headlines by offering its factory workers a daily pay of how much?
  • The brothers John and Horace Dodge were early shareholders in which carmaker, building engines and chassis for its first cars?
  • Did General Motors build a brand-new factory in Tennessee to make the cars of its Saturn brand?
  • Studebaker built its last cars in 1966. What did the Studebaker brothers start out making in 1852?
  • Order these American car companies by the year they were founded, earliest first.
  • Which small company built the very first prototype of the Second World War jeep, in 1940?
  • Before founding his own company in 1925, Walter P. Chrysler ran which General Motors brand?
  • Chrysler gained the Jeep brand in 1987, when it bought American Motors.
  • Select ALL of these General Motors brands that were shut down in 2010, after the company's 2009 bankruptcy.
  • Before he turned to cars, Scottish-born David Dunbar Buick made his name in which business?
  • Roughly how many million Ford Model Ts were built between 1908 and 1927?
  • Which engineer helped found both Cadillac and Lincoln?
  • American Motors (AMC) was formed in 1954 by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator with which carmaker?
  • After leaving Oldsmobile, its founder set up a rival carmaker in Lansing, Michigan. What was it called?