We all like to pride ourselves on having a vast wealth of knowledge on all things car related, and none more so than being able to identify an engine at a mere glance. Figuring out a car's engine isn’t a hard task when you have the entire thing in front of you, or even when scrolling past a decent picture on the internet.

With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of some of the easier- and harder-to-guess engine models from across the big Japanese manufacturers. Fancy yourself an engine connoisseur? Give this quick quiz of 10 Japanese engines a crack, and see how far your knowledge, and memory, extends — it definitely won’t be as easy as you think.