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Quotes About Vehicles

Unfortunately, motor vehicles are also responsible for 1.25 million accidental deaths every year (and more than ten times as many serious injuries)
~ Vaclav Smil
Fifty-one hybrids and ten MINI coopers. We're the most eco-friendly assault force in history.
~ Unknown
My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.
~ Lauren Lee Smith
My names John Bonham, I'm a drummer and I'm potty about cars.
~ John Bonham
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
~ Herb Caen
How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.
~ Dave Grohl
The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.
~ Martin Winterkorn
Russian cars are silly. They look like imports drawn by a cartoonist for a UAW newsletter.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
[We're making materials] so light that you can make a car that two people can lift, but so strong that it has the crash-worthiness of an SUV.
~ Regina E. Dugan
The only magazines I read are car magazines.
~ Simon Cowell
I am emotional about engines, if you hurt my car, you hurt my heart.
~ Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
immobilized their vehicles. And some of their
~ David Weber
domesticated cows deliver more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere than do all the world's vehicles—autos, trucks, trains, aircraft, ships—combined. Deforestation
~ Hugh Ross
It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.
~ Martin Rees
If it has tires or testicles, it's gonna give you trouble.
~ Jill Shalvis
If it's got tires or testicles, it's gonna give you trouble.
~ Jill Shalvis
Was it even a Cutlass? He could tell trucks from cars and sedans from compacts, but beyond that he was guessing.
~ Jim Lynch
The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles.
~ Dean Koontz
Beyond a certain speed, motorized vehicles create remoteness which they alone can shrink. They create distances for all and shrink them for only a few. A new dirt road through the wilderness brings the city within view, but not within reach, of most Brazilian subsistence farmers. The new expressway expands Chicago, but it sucks those who are well-wheeled away from a downtown that decays into a ghetto.
~ Ivan Illich
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven one.
~ Stefan Sagmeister
What if it blows this way?" "It won't." "Just this one time." "It won't. Why should it?" He paused a beat and said in a flat tone, "They just closed part of the interstate." "They would want to do that, of course." "Why?" "They just would. A sensible precaution. A way to facilitate movement of service vehicles and such. Any number of reasons that have nothing to do with wind or wind direction.
~ Don DeLillo
Our trucks run on natural gas.
~ Donald Miller
Speeding along in that bus was like hurtling into the abyss. By the time we had left the swamps and reached those rolling hills near Baton Rouge, I was getting afraid that some rural rednecks might toss bombs at the bus. They love to attack vehicles, which are a symbol of progress, I guess.
~ John Kennedy Toole
33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space.
~ Donald Shoup