Cars

Order by the year each model was launched. You place all 47 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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Order by the year each model was launched. Drag or tap it onto the line
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47
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
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How the iconic car models timeline game works

Here you're parking landmark car models in order of the year each was launched. Every card names a model with its manufacturer printed below. One car begins on the timeline with its launch year showing. Each new card goes into a gap before, between or after the cars placed. Get it right and its year shows up; get it wrong and the car still rolls into its true spot, but you lose one of three lives.

The deck drives from the early motoring era through postwar runabouts, sports cars, muscle cars, supercars, hatchbacks and into the electric age. Long-running nameplates are a trap, since a car still on sale today may have launched far earlier than its modern version suggests. The postwar years are bunched, with several icons arriving almost together. The maker helps a little, but most brands built cars across many eras.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

How players are doing

This deck has been played 72 times. An average run places 6.5 cards, and 69% of all placements land in the right spot. Only one run has ever placed every card.

The cards players get wrong most often:

  • Austin Seven missed 72% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Chevrolet Corvette missed 64% of the time, usually by about 2 places
  • Toyota Corolla missed 60% of the time, usually by about 2 places

The safest card is Tesla Model S, placed right every time it has come up.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 47 cards you might be dealt, with 19 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Ford Model T Ford
  • Austin Seven Austin
  • Volkswagen Beetle Volkswagen
  • Citroën 2CV Citroën
  • Land Rover Series I Rover
  • Porsche 356 Porsche
  • Mercedes-Benz 300SL Mercedes-Benz
  • Citroën DS Citroën
  • Mini British Motor Corporation
  • Ford Mustang Ford
  • Porsche 911 Porsche
  • Lamborghini Miura Lamborghini
  • Ford Escort Ford
  • Datsun 240Z Nissan
  • Honda Civic Honda
  • Volkswagen Golf Volkswagen
  • BMW 3 Series BMW
  • Audi Quattro Audi
  • Ferrari Testarossa Ferrari
  • Ferrari F40 Ferrari
  • Nissan Skyline GT-R R32 Nissan
  • Hummer H1 AM General
  • McLaren F1 McLaren
  • Ford Focus Ford
  • Bugatti Veyron Bugatti
  • Tesla Roadster Tesla
  • Tesla Model S Tesla
  • Rivian R1T Rivian

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