Apr 25, 2023
Puzzler time. It is about time for an automotive puzzler, I think. This one is an easy automotive puzzler. Nothing too difficult.
This is about automotive history, sort of.
There have been a lot of changes recently in the ways cars are built. These days, there are so many changes! Onboard computers and cameras, advanced safety technology, and EV engines... So many changes.
But there have been many changes throughout history too. Back in the 1990s, the new cars then had many changes from the cars of the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Advancements in the industry are ongoing, of course. But back then, new cars in the 90s were beginning to be made without something that the cars in the years before then all had. And that was a carburetor. Right about the early 1990s the car companies started moving away from carburetors. They stopped putting them in new cars at that time.
So here is the historical automotive puzzler question.
Which car company is the last manufacturer to use carburetors? Who was the last hold out, and who took the longest to abandon the use of the carburetor?
Good luck.
Okay, the last carburetor!
Time to answer this one for you. Here we go.
So here was the historical automotive puzzler question.
Which car company is the last manufacturer to use carburetors? Who was the last hold out?
Now according to my brother Tom, the answer to this question is the Subaru Justy. He had one of these. A little white Subaru. And this one was the last car we knew of then. And many still believe it was the Subaru Justy.
However, if you Google this question, some experts think it was actually a 1994 Isuzu pickup truck.
So, if you guessed either of these two answers, we will consider it correct.