Quotes About Automobiles

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

My first four cars, I flipped - not sold them, literally rolled them or flipped them.

I've been into cars my whole life, I've always bought and sold a few here and there on the side, as kind of a hobby.

I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

I just love cars I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

I really like driving cars. I love car games.

I love working on cars.

Highway Congestion We all complain about highway congestion. That is interesting for a different reason. The private automobile industry is able to produce all the automobiles anybody wants to drive, but the government is apparently not able to produce a comparably adequate highway system, a clear contrast.

It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.

I just mentioned how my sports car is European, and that is the extent of how I like Europeans, is in my cars.

We looked at each other; one said: "These people are not into status; they buy automobiles by the pound!

Neither of my parents suffered from the little spooky prejudices that devour the people who know nothing but automobiles and movies and what's in the ice-box and what's in the papers and which neighbors are getting a divorce.

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Yet even that equality within the American middle classes had started to erode. The new models of car, for example, were categorised by rank and status. For those starting out there was the Chevrolet, next came the Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles and Buicks, while the seriously rich drove Cadillacs. Not only that; buying and consuming were increasingly a social norm. You had to drive a new Pontiac, and by 1959 anyone still riding around in a 1956 model was

When I was very young, I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too, that I didn't show more promise at it, or I might have been an automobile dealer.

I got a Cadillac Escalade. Put some rims on it, threw a couple TV's in there, and installed a system. I stuck my Xbox in there. I had to go for it.

Ever since I was younger, I was fascinated by cars and driving. The first time I actually drove a car, I was twelve years old.

I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG.

I grew up in Michigan, in the Detroit area, so cars are sort of in my DNA.

I'LL BELT THE EARTH WITH DEPENDABLE MOTOR CARS

Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time.

To we moderns the sensation of being in a constructed environment is so ubiquitous as to be invisible—in the cocoon of our strip malls and automobiles, we are like the fish that cannot feel the water through which they swim. In Cahokia's day it was different. A thousand years ago it was the only place for a thousand miles in which one could be completely enveloped in an artificial landscape.