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1 Which Skoda model is 50 years old this year?
2 What brand new model will Seat launch in Ireland towards the end of March?
3 Which car company will offer what it calls a “Cross Wheel Drive” in a new derivative?
4 Volkswagen will be developing electric-drive units for cars with which Japanese company?
5 A recent poll of automotive designers elected the 1950s Citroën DS as the “most beautiful car of all time”; what came second?
6 How many Minis were used during the Mr Bean TV comedy series produced in the early 1990s?
7 Which family owns 30 per cent of Fiat?
8 How did the following make history in 2001: Gianni Agnelli, Karl Benz, Robert Bosch, Ettore Bugatti, Andre Citroën, Gottlieb Daimler, Rudolf Diesel, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Enzo Ferrari, Alec Issigonis, William Lyons, Ferdinand Porsche and Louis Renault?
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1 The Octavia
2 The Exeo mid-sized saloon
3 Saab with its 9-3X, to debut at Geneva in March
4 Toshiba
5 The Jaguar XK120
6 Two; the first, a 1969 car, was destroyed in the first episode, while a 1977 car was used in the subsequent ones
7 The Agnellis
8 They were the charter inductees into the European Automotive Hall of Fame