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Concept Cars: Dreams on Wheels

Turbine rockets, fabric skins, nuclear dreams and a car that sank at sea. Step into the motor-show spotlight and see if you can tell the wild ideas apart.

🏎️ Cars hard 20 questions ~8 min
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What this quiz asks

  • Which late-1930s car is often called the motor industry's first concept car?
  • What was the name of General Motors' travelling show of 'dream cars' in the 1950s?
  • Bill Mitchell's 1961 concept named after this fish previewed the look of which Chevrolet?
  • Which 1955 concept car was turned into the Batmobile for the 1960s Batman TV series?
  • Ford's 1958 Nucleon concept was designed to run on a small nuclear reactor, but it only ever existed as a scale model.
  • What powered GM's first Firebird concept, a single-seater styled like a jet fighter?
  • In its 1963-66 public trial, how many Turbine Cars did Chrysler lend out to ordinary American drivers?
  • Select ALL of these cars whose bodies were built by the Italian coachbuilder Ghia.
  • Did the Chrysler Norseman concept sink with the ocean liner Andrea Doria in 1956, before it was ever shown in public?
  • What does 'BAT' stand for in Alfa Romeo's 1950s BAT 5, 7 and 9 concepts?
  • Mercedes-Benz's gullwing C111 experimental cars of 1969-70 were built to test which kind of engine?
  • What was unusual about the seats in the pyramid-shaped 1980 Citroën Karin concept?
  • Select ALL of these concept cars designed by Marcello Gandini at Bertone.
  • BMW's 2008 GINA concept was covered in what instead of metal body panels?
  • Dodge's 2003 Tomahawk concept put a Viper V10 engine into what kind of vehicle?
  • Volvo's 2004 YCC concept was developed by a team made up entirely of women.
  • What did Jaguar's 2010 C-X75 concept use to recharge its batteries on the move?
  • Mercedes-Benz's 2020 Vision AVTR concept was inspired by which film?
  • Order these concept cars by the year they were unveiled, earliest first.
  • What could the cabin of Nissan's 2005 Pivo concept do so that the driver never had to reverse?