Car Movie Trivia
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70 free Car Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Some films are about people who happen to drive. Car movies are the other kind, where the Mustang, the Charger, the Trans Am or the beat-up VW bus is a character with its own arc. This quiz covers the whole garage: chase classics like Bullitt and The French Connection, outlaw road films like Vanishing Point and Two-Lane Blacktop, racing dramas from Le Mans to Ford v Ferrari, and the comedies, from Smokey and the Bandit to Talladega Nights, that made cars funny. You will be asked which car Steve McQueen drove, why Bumblebee stopped being a Beetle, how many cars Memphis Raines had to steal in one night, and what speed a DeLorean needs to leave 1985. There are gimme questions for casual movie fans and genuinely tough ones about auction prices, filming locations and the real races behind the fiction. Every answer has been verified against the film's production record and links to its source, so when a friend insists the Bluesmobile was a Plymouth you can prove otherwise.
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Q 01What model of car does Steve McQueen drive through San Francisco in Bullitt?
Ford Mustang GT
McQueen's car is a Ford Mustang GT, a Highland Green 1968 GT 390 fastback; two were used for filming, and McQueen did some of the chase driving himself.
Q 02What car do the hitmen drive in the Bullitt chase?
Dodge Charger
The Dodge Charger, a black 1968 model with the 440 Magnum V8, was driven on screen by Bill Hickman, the stunt driver who helped plan the chase and also plays one of the hitmen.
Q 03Bullitt won an Academy Award in which category?
Best Film Editing
Best Film Editing was Bullitt's only Oscar, won by Frank P. Keller, whose cutting of the roughly ten-minute San Francisco chase made the film famous; its other nomination, for sound, lost.
Q 04The hero car from Bullitt sold at Mecum Auctions in January 2020 for roughly how much?
$3.7 million
It fetched $3.7 million after decades with the Kiernan family, who had bought it from a magazine ad and used it as their everyday car; Steve McQueen tried to buy it back in 1977 and was refused.
Q 05Who directed the 1983 horror film Christine, about a murderous car?
John Carpenter
John Carpenter directed Christine, released in December 1983; he took the job after The Thing flopped in 1982 and he needed a commercial hit.
Q 06Christine, the possessed car in the Stephen King story, is what make and model?
1958 Plymouth Fury
Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury; real ones were scarce and never sold in red, so the production bought about two dozen Plymouths, many of them Belvederes and Savoys, and dressed them as Furys.
Q 07In Ford v Ferrari, Christian Bale plays which real-life racing driver?
Ken Miles
Christian Bale plays Ken Miles, the British-born driver and engineer who developed Ford's GT40 with Carroll Shelby; Miles died testing a Ford prototype at Riverside two months after the film's climactic race.
Q 08Ford v Ferrari builds toward which race?
The 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1966 24 Hours of Le Mans is the climax: Ford's GT40s finished 1-2-3, but a staged photo finish cost Bale's character the individual win the ending turns on.
Q 09Who wrote and directed Baby Driver (2017)?
Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright wrote and directed Baby Driver, choreographing its chases and shoot-outs to the soundtrack so closely that even the gunfire lands on the beat.
Q 10Why does Baby, the getaway driver in Baby Driver, constantly listen to music?
To drown out his tinnitus
He plays music to drown out his tinnitus, a ringing left by the childhood car crash that killed his parents; the chases are cut to whatever his earbuds play.
Q 11Baby Driver is set in which American city?
Atlanta
Baby Driver is set in Atlanta; the story was written for California but moved to Georgia for the state's film tax credits, and the opening chase uses a red Subaru WRX.
Q 12In Gone in 60 Seconds (2000), car thief Memphis Raines must steal 50 cars to save whom?
His brother
His brother. Kip botches a job for a crime lord, who will kill him unless Memphis delivers every car on the list, so Memphis comes out of retirement and calls his old crew back together.
Q 13What car is 'Eleanor' in the 2000 remake of Gone in 60 Seconds?
A 1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang
Q 21In Days of Thunder, Tom Cruise plays a NASCAR rookie named what?
Cole Trickle
Tom Cruise plays the rookie Cole Trickle; Robert Duvall plays his crew chief Harry Hogge, and Cruise met Nicole Kidman, cast as his neurosurgeon, on the set.
Q 22Which Top Gun director reunited with Tom Cruise for Days of Thunder (1990)?
Tony Scott
Tony Scott. For authentic footage, NASCAR let his crew enter camera cars in actual races, with professional drivers at the wheel.
Q 23In Talladega Nights, Sacha Baron Cohen plays Jean Girard, a rival from which racing series?
Formula One
Formula One. Girard, who drives a Perrier-sponsored car, later admits he came to America hoping to lose to a better driver so that he could finally retire.
A 1967 Shelby GT500 Mustang. The grey fastback inspired so many replicas that the widow of the original film's director took Carroll Shelby to court over the rights to Eleanor.
Q 14Disney's Herbie, the racing car with a mind of its own, is what kind of car?
A Volkswagen Beetle
A Volkswagen Beetle. Buddy Hackett, who plays Tennessee in The Love Bug, said the car's name came from a comedy routine of his about a ski instructor.
Q 15What racing number does Herbie carry?
53
53. Producer Bill Walsh is said to have borrowed the number from the jersey of Don Drysdale, the Los Angeles Dodgers' star pitcher.
Q 16Which actress rescues Herbie from a junkyard in Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)?
Lindsay Lohan
Lindsay Lohan plays Maggie Peyton, who finds Herbie in a junkyard and takes him NASCAR racing; Michael Keaton plays her father, Ray Peyton Sr.
Q 17Rain in Australia moved the Mad Max: Fury Road shoot to which country?
Namibia
Namibia. Unprecedented rain had turned the red earth around Broken Hill into what George Miller called 'a flower garden', so he took the shoot somewhere 'the desert is desert'.
Q 18Charlize Theron's character in Mad Max: Fury Road, the driver of the War Rig, is called what?
Imperator Furiosa
Imperator Furiosa. She uses the War Rig to help the tyrant Immortan Joe's wives escape, heading for the 'Green Place' where she grew up before she was kidnapped.
Q 19Max's black Pursuit Special in the original 1979 Mad Max was built from what car?
A Ford Falcon XB GT
The Pursuit Special is a Ford Falcon XB GT hardtop from 1973, an Australian-market coupe never sold in the United States, billed in the film as the 'last of the V8 Interceptors'.
Q 20The 1979 Mad Max held a Guinness World Record for what?
Highest box-office-to-budget ratio
Highest box-office-to-budget ratio. George Miller, then an emergency-room doctor, helped raise its tiny budget by going out on emergency medical calls, with producer Byron Kennedy driving the car.
Q 24Ron Howard's Rush (2013) dramatizes the rivalry between Niki Lauda and which driver?
James Hunt
Chris Hemsworth plays James Hunt, who took the 1976 title by a single point after Lauda returned only six weeks after his fiery Nürburgring crash.
Q 25In the 1969 film The Italian Job, the gold heist takes place in which city?
Turin
The heist is set in Turin: the getaway cars race across the rooftop test track of Fiat's Lingotto factory and down the steps of the Gran Madre di Dio church.
Q 26Which small cars carry the gold in the 1969 Italian Job?
Mini Coopers
Mini Coopers. With the city's traffic at a standstill, the three small cars slip away where nothing bigger could follow: down staircases, through shopping arcades and across rooftops.
Q 27How does the 1969 Italian Job end?
With a coach teetering over a cliff edge
It ends with a coach teetering over a cliff edge, the gold sliding toward the rear doors; Michael Caine's Charlie Croker gets the last line, 'Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea.'
Q 28What does the Bandit drive in Smokey and the Bandit?
A Pontiac Trans Am
A Pontiac Trans Am. The director saw the car in a magazine while preparing the film and asked Pontiac for six; the company agreed to four, and the stunts left all of them badly damaged.
Q 29What cargo is the Bandit hired to bootleg from Texarkana back to Georgia in Smokey and the Bandit?
400 cases of Coors beer
400 cases of Coors beer. Coors was not then sold in the eastern United States, so trucking it to Georgia was bootlegging, and Big Enos bets the Bandit he cannot make the run in 28 hours.
Q 30Smokey and the Bandit was the directorial debut of which former stuntman?
Hal Needham
Hal Needham. Hollywood's best-paid stuntman struggled to get studios to take his script seriously until his friend and housemate Burt Reynolds agreed to star, and Universal then backed it.