This week's motors quiz
Questions
1British-based Breckland Technology has just announced a new limited edition Beira supercar; what is the normal work of the company?
2Which major town is the most recent to be bypassed in a motorway project?
3How many CO2 bands come into effect on July 1st as part of the new CO2-based motor taxation regime?
4Car registration figures for the first five months of 2008 are down 15.5 per cent against 2007; in numbers does that represent 21,353, 32,356, or 41,391 cars?
5The Quasiturbine engine was patented in 1996; what other engine type is it similar to?
6Lancia are shortly launching a new car which resurrects a famous name that it dropped in 1994; what is it?
7What car featured in a garden in the recent Bloom Festival in Dublin?
8When did Stirling Moss officially retire from racing?
Answers
1.It specialises is producing prototype cars for other carmakers.
2.Carlow, in an 18km part of the Dublin to Waterford Corridor.
3.Seven, designated A to G.
4.21,353.
5.It uses a rotor and housing system similar to a Wankel rotary engine, but has four combustion chamber elements instead of three in the Wankel.
6.The Delta.
7.The Ford Kuga, in a Ford-sponsored allergy-free garden exhibit.
8.1962.