Quotes About Automobiles

The killjoys initiated automobile crash standards so rigorous that we can't buy a car that hasn't been dropped from the top of a phone pole with our whole family strapped inside.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

And the first five places are filled by five different cars.

In postwar America, mass production of automobiles and tract housing signaled the beginning of urban decline and suburban sprawl.

In 1999, USA Today analyzed the statistical link between CAFE standards and traffic fatalities and reported that "46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars…since 1975."32

Japan is our rival, not our enemy. Japan is a competitor... Bashing a Toyota won't make a better car.

Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon.

There is nothing more American than buying a Japanese car on the 4th of July

The cars that our children and grandchildren will be driving in the future will be greener as a result of high-tech lessons learned.

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

Toyota was the first to put a commercial fuel cell powered car on the road, and I have no doubt that Toyota will continue to be in the front lines in the development of competitive fuel cell vehicles.

Carl Sagan caught the attention of college audiences on his lecture tours by pointing out that, if aliens are watching us from outer space, they must be assuming that automobiles are the dominant life-form; we service them, maintain them, fuel them, house them, and build roads for their convenience rather than our own.

Come here and look out this window. You see that contraption down there?" Frank pointed at an automobile sputtering down the street. "I think people are going to buy quite a few of these new buggies and they need gasoline to make 'em go. It may be the thing of the future. There might only be a few gas wagons now, but someday there will be millions of the things. Oil is only twenty-eight cents a barrel right now. But what will it be in ten years?

Un ejemplo de una visión a largo plazo útil y no demasiado restringida es la visión inicial de Toyota Motor Corporation de «Mejores automóviles para más personas».6 ¿Qué

The general culture itself, though without strong ideological passions or theoretical enthusiasms, is poor soil for cultivating a widespread understanding of science. It is, to use blunt words, a lazy, fatally unambitious culture, strongly resistant to demands for sustained and coherent thought on any topic (aside, perhaps, from sports, guns, and automobiles).

Sooner or later the Internet will become profitable. It's an old story played before by canals, railroads and automobiles.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.