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German Cars Trivia & Fun Facts

In 1948 the whole Wolfsburg factory was offered to Ford for nothing, and Ford's chief adviser said it wasn't worth a damn. Every marque in this book was once a week from the receiver. Ninety verified questions across ten themed parts — Volkswagen, Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Audi, the tuning divisions and the races that made the reputations.

90
Questions
10
Themed parts
2
Sources per fact
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Ten parts. Ninety questions.

01Before the Legends. 1886 to 1945, and the men who started it
02The People's Car. Volkswagen, and the factory nobody wanted
03Stuttgart's Stubborn Idea. Porsche, born in a sawmill
04The Three-Pointed Star. Mercedes-Benz
05Munich. BMW, eleven days from being sold for parts
06Four Rings. Audi, and four companies that all went broke
07The Fast Divisions. AMG, M, RS and the outside tuners
08Silver Arrows and the Green Hell. Racing
09Things Invented Here. Engineering firsts
10Autobahn Culture. Living with these cars
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Q10 · PART 2 · THE PEOPLE’S CAR
Who restarted Volkswagen production after the Second World War?
Wolfsburg fell in the British occupation zone. Major Ivan Hirst, a REME officer, had a surviving car painted green and presented to the army, which ordered 20,000 vehicles — enough to justify restarting the line in 1945. Heinrich Nordhoff took over in 1948 and ran the company for twenty years, but the plant was already running when he arrived.
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  3. Answers explained — the story behind the number.
  4. Disputed facts flagged as disputed. Honestly.
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