got everything except the Ion but then when I pressed "give up" I felt dumb. :P Two cars that I have owned before make this list. My first car at #4, and my current car at #11.
It's a ludicrously expensive supercar. Well-known only if you read car magazines but you've probably never seen one on the street before. One of the fastest production cars ever made if you measure theoretical top speed in a perfectly straight line. On the other hand, it's much slower around the track than, say, the Dodge Viper. It didn't make it on my fastest production cars quiz which is determined by lap times not hypothetical top speed.
I mean hypothetical in the sense that you will never achieve that speed on your own on a normal road. You need a very specialized test track... so... it's really pretty pointless and just there to sell cars.
Wow. Theoretical huh? I guess when it came in #2 in the supercar 0-200 mph drag race (R/T, Lemoore, CA) and is the #1 supercar of all time (Edmunds) out of 100, they were theoretical too? The Veyron achieved 0-200 mph in approximately 1.9 miles of road (24.2 seconds). There are numerous areas where a 2+ mile stretch of road is available. As to track performance, weight is higher than some which hurts. Yet, some tracks post Veyron 16.4 times in their top 10 of all time. Top Gear has it at #10 on their track and it hit 253 mph at VW's track. Geez, what does it take? I know of people hitting 185mph (911 GT3). I'm sure the road would hold an AWD Veyron. Pointless? No. Theoretical? No.
matt... look at the fastest recorded lap times around the Nurburgring. There's not a single Veyron time on the entire list. Next, try to find a single person who has EVER driven a Veyron on a public road and achieved it's claimed top speed of 254 mph (409 kph). You can't. Because it has never happened and it's impossible. 200 mph is impressive... but lots of supercars can do that. And this is FAR from the Veyron's claimed top speed. So... yes... the 254 mph top speed Bugatti likes to boast about IS completely pointless for pretty much everybody who will ever drive the car. Because 99.99% of them will never see that speed... rendering it pointless and theoretical.
Top speeds for any vehicle worth a darn are obtained on a controlled track/controlled environment for reasons too numerous to list. Good luck getting a municipality to close a road and provide a safety crew so a manufacturer can make their supercar hit its top speed. Disqualifying a vehicle because it doesn't have a posted lap at one track in the world and it recorded a top speed at a track instead of on a public road is absurd. Maybe I'll go get a doctorate in Google searches too.
Don't forget to call Edmunds. They need to know that despite being an authority in the automotive world since 1966, they are obviously mistaken because a car goes faster on a track than it does on a road and some cars go faster around corners than others.
Any car worth a darn? You measure the value of a car in how fast you can get it to go on a specialized test track? Really? And if a car can't go in excess of 220 mph (about the fastest you'll ever go on the Autobahn) then it's not "worth a darn?" So... Lamborghini Murcielago? Not worth a darn? Ferrari Enzo? Not worth a darn? Then, okay, fine... drop a million dollars on a Bugatti. I guess you'll get your money's worth. Also the Viper beats the Veyron at EVERY race track in the world. Not just that one. I picked that one because it is world famous and lap times there are worth a ton of street cred. It's a much faster lap/track car. MUCH faster.
Hubby still drives my old 2001 LeSabre to work everyday - 200,000+ miles with few repair bills, smooth ride, 27 MPG, and he's man enough to drive a granny car without shame. He said he'll drive it 'til it dies, but it just keeps going.
easy, done with 2:36 seconds to spare. Was getting stuck on Ion, Grand Am, Cutlass, and gremlin. Like I've literally never heard of any of those before
Yes, I was coming here to say the same thing. I figured the answer wouldn't be Honda since Civic was already on the list, but where I am the Honda Integra is the only Integra I know.
This quiz seems to be heavily weighted towards American quiztakers. As a European, guessing brands like Lincoln and Acura is quite difficult since they're never been available here to my knowledge at least. That along with some of the model names that aren't really a thing here makes it almost impossible within reason. Would be nice if it were more oriented towards an international audience.
I think that would narrow the field quite a lot - there aren't that many cars that are genuinely sold across the world under the same name. Shameless plug: some more European-angled car quizzes.
and given the low score for the silver shadow, which was one of the easiest on there for non-americans, it shows that most of the takers were probably americans.
Second all those comments re: Honda Integra, as the rest of the world knows it - only the Acura in USA. Similar applies to the Miata (in the USA) and which the rest of the world knows as the MX-5. Canada switched away from 'Miata' a few models back.
I don't know, you guys'll be wanting your own name for the Gulf of Mexico next...oh wait...
I missed Bugatti, but I've never heard of that. :(
For instance the Acura brand does not exist in most of the world and instead the Integra is sold as Honda.
I don't know, you guys'll be wanting your own name for the Gulf of Mexico next...oh wait...
Interceptor, Niva, Rebel, Chaser, and a bunch of alphanumeric euro cars xD