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Quotes About Automobiles

The wayward morality of the country's "flaming youth" was blamed, at least in part, on their easy access to enclosed automobiles, which one outraged critic described as "bordellos on wheels.
~ Harold Schechter
In Birmingham, the women are maintained, the men are greedily lustful, and the children are named after high-end automobiles. You are just as likely to run into a Bentley, Mercedes, Porsche, and Lexus walking on the sidewalk as you are cruising the downtown streets.
~ laurie victoria
There are people in the world who care about automobiles, and there are people who couldn't care less, and then there are the people who are impressed by the Dilemma, and those people are everyone.
~ Lemony Snicket
Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will read the other guy's mind.
~ leno jay ii
If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.
~ Henrik Fisker
It's just really hard to work and get better, building and planning for the future with the new Monte Carlo and keeping the race team intact and keeping them healthy.
~ Dale Earnhardt
We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.
~ June Carter Cash
The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.
~ Martin Winterkorn
I was always quite good at fixing and working with cars. My dad's always dealt cars, and I've always been brought up around them. They're one of the things I've always been interested in.
~ Tyson Fury
Honda opened its first assembly line in Lincoln in November 2001.
~ Mike Rogers
the result could well be the rise of a new breed of firm—Big Mobility companies that embody what would be the transformative world of Auto-Tech.
~ Daniel Yergin
In 2000, 1.9 million cars were sold in China, 17.3 million in the United States. By 2019, the number was 25 million in China and 17 million in the United States.
~ Daniel Yergin
No new car company had been started in the United States since 1925.
~ Daniel Yergin
In 1900, electrics far outnumbered gasoline cars on the streets in New York City. No one was a more powerful advocate of the electric car than the great inventor Thomas Edison, who poured a lot of his own money, along with his reputation and effort, into trying to perfect an electric vehicle.
~ Daniel Yergin
two things killed that first generation of electric cars. One was Henry Ford's Model T and the mass production of the assembly line. The other, though less well known, was the electric starter, invented by Charles Kettering in 1911 for Cadillac after a person died from cranking a car. Kettering's invention eliminated the need for someone to stand in front and crank. Over the next several years, electric cars faded away.
~ Daniel Yergin
I don't actually own a car.
~ Chris Martin
Oamenii isi pot cumpara masini de orice culoare poftesc, numai sa fie neagra!
~ Henry Ford
Therefore in 1909 I announced one morning, without any previous warning, that in the future we were going to build only one model, that the model was going to be "Model T," and that the chassis would be exactly the same for all cars, and I remarked: "Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.
~ Henry Ford
From CATS ARE KIND "I saw a dog pursuing automobiles; On and on he sped. I was puzzled by this; I accosted the dog. 'If you catch one,' I said 'What will you do with it?' 'Dumb cat,' he cried, And ran on.
~ Henry N. Beard
The similarities between commercial airplanes and automobiles are striking. It's all about safe and efficient transportation using the latest technology and the best fuel efficiency.
~ Alan Mulally
Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.
~ Wilson Greatbatch
Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.
~ Jason Calacanis
Silicon Valley's definition of luxury is a Tesla in every garage.
~ Julie Wainwright
I've always loved old hot rods. I have four or five of them at home that I work on when I'm not working out.
~ Buddy Rice