1. Chevrolet
   Honda
2. Oldsmobile
   Buick

It's mostly truck owners who carry on this rivalry, with bumper stickers like "Friends don't let friends drive Chevys." Ford's business rivalries are more complex, with competition coming from other General Motors brands beside Chevy, and also from Japanese automakers.

1. EcoBoost
   Insight
2. Mini-block
   LowPro

The Ford EcoBoost engine reduces both fuel consumption and emissions. However, oddly enough, Ford promotes it by sponsoring several NASCAR "Ford EcoBoost" races, in which high-performance gas-burning cars drive hundreds of miles in circles ... you probably see the irony.

1. the Coronado
   the Silverado
2. the F-series
   the Tundra/Tacoma line

Ford's pickup trucks are the F-150, F-250, and so on. Models considerably up the line, like the F-750, are solely for commercial purposes.

1. black
   blue
2. red
   white

Fords in the "teens" were offered in basic black. Better, we suppose, the bright yellow or mint green!

1. blue oval
   green Celtic cross
2. gold bowtie
   group of white stars

Ford is sometimes called "the blue oval company," so well-known is their badge. It was designed and debuted in the late 1920s. It is Chevrolet that's the gold bowtie company.

1. Lexus
   Kia
2. Mercury
   Tata

Mercury was a successful line of higher-end cars for Ford since the late 1930s. However, financial troubles and restructuring evidently meant keeping the brand going no longer made sense.

1. the Probe
   the Escort
2. the Fiesta
   the Taurus

The years in question are 1992 to 1996. Toyota's Camry then stole the crown.

1. Dearborn, Michigan
   Ann Arbor, Michigan
2. Gary, Indiana
   Spring Hill, Tennessee

If your first thought was Detroit, you weren't far off. Dearborn isn't far from the Motor City.

1. true
2. false

You don't hear about it much anymore, but "Fordism" is essentially about how mass production and mass consumption can support each other, with both, in turn, keeping a healthy economy afloat. It is based on Henry Ford's ideas about paying his workers a decent wage while producing inexpensive goods they could buy.

1. Roush
   Saleen
2. Shelby
   They all are.

These are named after auto-racing giants Jack Roush, Steve Saleen and Carroll Shelby. A vintage Shelby Mustang is probably the most coveted among car lovers.

1. true
2. false

If you're used to thinking of Tauruses as those cars driven by underpaid high-school principals and youth pastors, think again. Non-production Tauruses have burned up the stock-car tracks.

1. about $5,000
   about $6,000
2. about $7,000
   less than $3,000

The first Mustangs cost about $2400. Today, a 1964 Mustang is good condition will run you between $20,000 and $30,000. What an investment!

1. 1955
   1960
2. 1964
   1966

The first-year Mustang is often called the "1964 1/2" model. This is because it was uncharacteristically introduced at mid-year.

1. Edsel Ford
   Henry Ford II
2. Jonathan Ford
   Benjamin Franklin Ford

Edsel Ford is most associated with the car named after him (a line of cars, actually). The Edsel was an expensive, highly-promoted flop with buyers, and even today "Edsel" is sometimes used as a synonym for a product failure.

1. the Laser
   the Probe
2. the Escort
   both #2 and #3

The Laser was sold outside the US, including in Asia and Oceania. However, it is very similar to the Escort, which was available stateside.

1. anti-Semitism
   flat-Earth beliefs
2. opposition to vaccination
   spiritualism

The main thing that mars Henry Ford's legacy is his anti-Semitic views. They aren't defensible, but unfortunately overshadow his other values, like his commitment to hiring disabled veterans and discouraging smoking in the young (neither stance was common in Ford's time).

1. grandson
   grand-nephew
2. great-grandson
   second cousin twice removed

There are some black marks on the Ford legacy, Henry Ford's noted anti-Semitic views and union busting among them. But the family members who take the reins are not to be mistaken for figureheads. Bill Ford has degrees from Princeton and MIT and has worked in many roles in the company, including, for a time, as its CEO.

1. the emergency eye wash station
   the open factory floor
2. the moving assembly line
   robotic workers

The adoption of the moving assembly line radically decreased the time it took to make a car. However, turnover became high, as workers bored with doing the same task over and over quit for other jobs. This was one reason Ford began offering higher pay.

1. the axle
   the fuel tank
2. the exhaust pipe
   the cylinder block

The fuel tank of the Pinto was placed between the rear axle and the rear bumper, and was prone to gas leakage and fires if the car was struck from behind. Several deaths were attributed to this defect. Depending on how you look at it -- and opinions are mixed -- the Pinto was either a gross case of corporate irresponsibility or "Pinto Madness" that ignores that the VW Beetle has a worse safety record.

1. Carl Icahn
   Lee Iacocca
2. Samuel Goldwyn
   Larry Kudlow

Iacocca went on the revitalize Chrysler in the 1980s. He wrote an popular autobiography shortly thereafter, as well as a book on business leadership.

1. Land Rover
   Jaguar
2. Aston Martin
   both #1 and #2

These were both luxury brands. Ford decided to focus on its basic and strongest lines, like its trucks, and the ever-popular Mustang.

1. sports car
   hot hatch
2. muscle car
   pony car

The term "pony car" is derived from the name Mustang (though, technically, a Mustang is not a pony). Ford capitalized on this by rolling not the Pinto not long after.

1. the 1940s
   the 1950s
2. the 1960s
   the 1970s

Though we think of the F-series as a present-day model, it goes back about as far as the classic old Chevy stepsides. The first F-series trucks rolled out in 1947.

1. a CD player
   fuel injection
2. disc brakes
   rack-and-pinion steering

Rack-and-pinion steering uses a gearwheel that meshes with the teeth of a gear bar. It's a lot easier to understand once you see a diagram, we promise.

1. true
2. false

Poor Edsel Ford! He was president of the Ford Motor Company from 1919 to 1943, and was an enthusiastic and creative lead executive. It was only after his death that Ford named a car for him that was a commercial failure, forever linking him with a mistake he didn't make.

1. the Model A
   the flivver
2. the Leaping Lena
   the Quadricycle

Ford designed this fragile-looking self-propelled cart in 1896. The name a reminder that this was a time when cars were so new nobody really knew what to call them.

1. Henrietta
   Tin Lizzie
2. flivver
   both #2 and #3

It's not an overstatement to say that the Model T changed America. It provided, for the first time, a car that the middle class could afford.

1. Team Penske
   Mark Fields Racing
2. Front Row Motorsports
   Stewart-Haas Racing

Ford supports several NASCAR teams. However, there isn't one named for the current CEO, Mark Fields.

1. 100 million
   250 million
2. 1 billion
   40 billion

The F-series is the bestselling line of trucks in America, and popular elsewhere in the world, too. In light of these sales, it seems like a good decision that, back in the mid-2000s, Ford cut ties to luxury brands of cars that it owned in order to focus on its core products.

1. the "oughts" (1900 - 1909)
   the 1920s
2. the 1940s
   the 1960s

It really wasn't long after its founding before the Ford company was making inroads in the European market. Ford began selling cars in Paris in 1908.

1. 1896
   1899
2. 1902
   1904

The actual Ford Motor Company wasn't founded until later. However, Ford built his first vehicle (it's hard to call it a car; pictures show a kind of cart with four bicycle-like wheels) in the late nineteenth century.

1. $2
   $5
2. $7
   $8

It's hard to put this into perspective today, but $5 was an amazing rate. It was more than double the going wage, and Ford was repaid in worker loyalty and low turnover.

1. Bill Ford
   Mark Fields
2. Alan Mullally
   Carly Fiorina

Ford was notable for not taking a government bailout during the "too big to fail" years, and Mulally was generally praised for his leadership during that time. However, his CEO compensation of more than $20 million a year takes a bit of a luster off that hero status.

1. Veronica Mars
   Kinsey Millhone
2. Clarice Starling
   all of them

Sorry, "all of the above" is often the right answer, but not here! Veronica Mars had a Chrysler LeBaron, and Kinsey Millhone a VW Beetle. But Starling was apparently devoted to the blue oval company, driving a Pinto in "Silence of the Lambs," then trading up to a Roush Mustang in "Hannibal."

1. 2nd
   8th
2. 10th
   11th

Ford just missed the top ten by one spot. General Motors, a larger umbrella company of car brands, edged it out at number 10.