Vehicles play an important role in our daily lives, getting us from point A to point B. Riddles about vehicles can engage our minds and get us thinking logically about modes of transportation we use or see every day. Below are 55 riddles about various types of vehicles with brief answers to test logic, reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
Riddles About Cars
Riddle 1
What does a car do that no other vehicle does?
Answer: It has trunks.
Riddle 2
What kind of car is useful for sneaking around because it’s quiet?
Answer: An electric car.
Riddle 3
What do you call a flower that runs on a road?
Answer: A Chrysanthemum (Chrysler).
Riddle 4
What do you call a flower that’s under the weather?
Answer: A Hydrangea (Hyundai).
Riddle 5
I’m what’s left when you take the inside from the outside.
Answer: A shell (Shell).
Riddle 6
What do you call the best butter on the market?
Answer: Parkay (Porsche).
Riddle 7
What do you call cheese that isn’t yours?
Answer: Nacho cheese (Nissan).
Riddle 8
What do you call a car that can jump really high?
Answer: A Hyundai (High-undai).
Riddle 9
What car company sounds like another word for throw?
Answer: Honda (Hurl).
Riddle 10
What car company sounds like something you hit a baseball with?
Answer: A Bat (BMW).
Riddles About Trucks
Riddle 11
What do you call a possessor of many gifts that can also hold a lot of cargo?
Answer: Santa’s sleigh (Freightliner Sleigh).
Riddle 12
What do you call a truck that likes to work out?
Answer: A gym (GMC).
Riddle 13
What do you call an online retail truck?
Answer: Amazon delivery truck.
Riddle 14
What do you call a truck that carries bread?
Answer: Pan Loaf.
Riddle 15
What do you call a Ford pickup truck with a toolbox?
Answer: Ford Fixer.
Riddle 16
What do you call a muscular truck?
Answer: Dodge Ram.
Riddle 17
What truck loves to eat eggs?
Answer: GMC Eggstruck.
Riddle 18
What do you get when you cross a truck full of ducks and a truck full of geese?
Answer: A flocker truck.
Riddles About Motorcycles
Riddle 19
What kind of motorcycle does Dracula ride?
Answer: A Yamaha (Yamaha).
Riddle 20
What do you call a Harley Davidson motorcycle with a sidecar?
Answer: Harley Tricycleson.
Riddle 21
Why did the motorcycle fall over?
Answer: Because it was two tired.
Riddle 22
What kind of motorcycle is made out of cheese?
Answer: A bikers Z (bikers Suzuki).
Riddle 23
What do you call a funny looking motorcycle?
Answer: Yamahaha.
Riddle 24
What happens to a motorcycle when it falls in the ocean?
Answer: It gets wet, but it’s still a cycle.
Riddles About Bicycles
Riddle 25
What kind of bike can you ride without touching?
Answer: A bike cycle (recumbent bike).
Riddle 26
Why was the bicycle sitting all alone?
Answer: Because it was two tired.
Riddle 27
Why was the bicycle the smartest vehicle in town?
Answer: Because it had handlebars!
Riddle 28
What did the bicyclist do when his bike seat fell off?
Answer: He refused to sit down until he found it.
Riddle 29
Which bike is good at dancing?
Answer: A Limbo cycle (recumbent bike).
Riddles About Airplanes
Riddle 30
What kind of plane has the best manners?
Answer: A jet that says “thanks” after it takes off (Boeing Jet).
Riddle 31
How do planes stay cool?
Answer: They use their propellors (propellers).
Riddle 32
What part of the plane experiences the most jet lag?
Answer: The wings, because they travel so far during a flight.
Riddle 33
Why don’t planes fly upside down?
Answer: Because nothing good happens when you turn a flight upside down.
Riddle 34
What kind of airplane carries building equipment?
Answer: A plane Cessna (Cessna plane).
Riddles About Trains
Riddle 35
What kind of train eats too much?
Answer: A chew chew train.
Riddle 36
Why do trains always use the same tracks?
Answer: Because they are on track!
Riddle 37
Why don’t electric trains travel long distances?
Answer: Because they have a short circuit.
Riddle 38
What do you call a train with bubblegum on the bottom?
Answer: A pink chew chew train.
Riddle 39
What do you call a train that crossed the finish line?
Answer: A freight (first place).
Riddles About Boats and Ships
Riddle 40
What kind of ship is surrounded by water and always wet?
Answer: A friendship.
Riddle 41
What do you call a boat full of blue paint?
Answer: A blue cruise.
Riddle 42
What do you call a very eco-friendly ship?
Answer: A greenpeace.
Riddle 43
What happened to the boat that sank in the desert?
Answer: Nothing, because boats cannot sail in deserts.
Riddle 44
Why don’t eggs sail on ships?
Answer: Because they could crack up.
Riddles About Spacecrafts
Riddle 45
Why did the astronauts get fired from their jobs?
Answer: They weren’t doing the space work.
Riddle 46
Why do astronauts use spaceships instead of cars?
Answer: Parking is astronomical.
Riddle 47
Why do spaceships take so long to slow down?
Answer: They have a lot of momentum.
Riddle 48
What kind of spacecraft is made up of tenth grade students?
Answer: Tenspace.
Riddle 49
Why couldn’t the astronaut become a famous rapper?
Answer: His bars were space and out of this world.
Riddles About Miscellaneous Vehicles
Riddle 50
What do you call a school bus that’s underwater?
Answer: A yellow submarine.
Riddle 51
Why don’t mopeds ever win races?
Answer: They always moped around the track.
Riddle 52
Why did the hovercraft leave the garage?
Answer: It needed to take a hover the town.
Riddle 53
Why was the drone unhappy?
Answer: Because it had no body to hang out with.
Riddle 54
What flies without wings?
Answer: Time.
Riddle 55
What has four wheels and flies?
Answer: A garbage truck.
Conclusion
We use all sorts of vehicles, like cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles, planes, trains, boats, and spaceships, to get where we need to go. Riddles that play on the names and functions of these vehicles engage our minds and make us think creatively. Answering these riddles requires logic, wit, and sometimes just silliness. Vehicles transport our bodies, but vehicle riddles exercise our brains!
