Portal:Cars/Quotes
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| When you drive from Melbourne to Broken Hill, as I did recently, you find you want to do it in a bigger, more comfortable car. If consumers bought what they wanted to buy there would always be (plenty) who would buy a full-size car. |
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| The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten
—Sir Henry Royce |
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| People can have the Model T in any color -- so long as it's black. |
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| Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines.
—Enzo Ferrari responding to driver Paul Frère as to why his 250 TR had a limited top speed on the Mulsanne straight at Le Mans |
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| Our mission is to offer the top performance sportscar manufactured legal for US roads. The sport in sportscar is motorsports, and in our case that means racing at road courses that include Daytona, Sebring, Road America, Watkin's Glen, Laguna Seca, Three Rivers, Homestead, and the like.
My cars are designed to be capable of the lowest lap times of any car manufactured US legal on tracks like these. The development process includes extensive racing at the professional level, where performance and durability are enhanced and demonstrated |
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| I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
—Roland Barthes' The New Citroën (1957) |
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| The Aston Martin DB9 is the car that I'd be most likely to sell my children into slavery for. |
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| Bentley makes the world's fastest lorries. |
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| To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window. |
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| Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down. |
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| Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games. |
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| If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. |
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| Far superior to carrying your children in your mouth.
—Land Rover slogan |
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| If you stop a block of clay long enough in a design studio, someone will drop a 3.8 in it.
—Former Oldsmobile General Manager John Rock explaining why he wanted Olds to have its own 3.5 L DOHC V6 instead of relying on the ubiquitous Buick V6 |
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| Congestion charging was a radical solution to a long-standing problem. It has helped to get London moving again after years of choking traffic.
—Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London, October 2003 |
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| The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them. |
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| If it wasn't so ugly, I would shoot myself.
—Famed Ferrari designer, Aurelio Lampredi, describing a prototype Mini after a 1959 test drive |
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| The client is not always right |
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| My car is just all ate up with motor
—Darrell Waltrip, explaining his NASCAR success in 1977 |
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| If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough |
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| A car for every purse and purpose (AMG)
—Alfred P. Sloan, describing the hierarchy of General Motors brands' |
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| Castellotti il morto. Dispiace. E la Macchina? (Castellotti is dead. I'm sorry. And the car?) —Enzo Ferrari, on hearing of the fatal crash of team driver, Eugenio Castellotti, while trying to take back the course record at the Modena Autodrome from Maserati |
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| Things just didn't work out
—Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen, explaining his dismissal as president of the Ford Motor Company after just one year on the job |
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| If you can find a better car, buy it!
—Lee Iacocca's pitch to buyers of the K-car line that saved Chrysler Corporation from insolvency in the 1980s |
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| It was Holden working at its best, doing a lot with a little. Some of the subterfuge we got up to to make things happen was probably more risky than we realised, but it was worth it.
—Tony Hyde |
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| The Japanese will never equal the name of Ferrari or Lamborghini, even with the NS-X. A name like Honda can never rise up, even if it builds the best car in the world. A Honda will always be a Honda.
—Mauro Forghieri of Lamborghini describing Honda's new supercar in 1989 |
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| We could remain independent while we had a fighting chance. Emissions and new Japanese competition showed us we didn't.
—Sir John Egan, explaining the sale of Jaguar Cars to Ford |
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| This type of technology, unheard of 10 or 15 years ago, is real. And it's coming. It's just another step toward the fully automated driving experience. Which is anathema to those of us who are drivers' drivers who are suckers for the thrill of controlling a speed machine.
But that's why people like us will always have motorcycles! —Bob Lutz on the possibilities of future automated automobiles |
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| When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.
Henry Ford talking with Ugo Gobbato in 1939 |
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| To Users, Agents, Importers, Dealers and Manufacturers of Gasolene Automobiles:
United States Letters Patent No. 549,160, granted to George B. Selden, November 5, 1895, controls broadly the commercial forms of gasolene automobiles. ... Both the Basic Selden patent and all other patents owned as aforesaid will be enforced against all infringers. —1904 advertisement by the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers exhorting compliance with the Selden patent |
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| Those of us who move will die. Those who don't are already dead.
—Jean Behra, 1950s Formula One racing driver, on continuing to race while knowing the risks |
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| “Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.” |