Quotes About Automotive

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

Every major car company is trying to figure out, 'How do I deploy the Internet into the car? How do I get cars to talk to each other? How do I get more safety? How do I get the ownership experience to change dramatically as a result?'

It seems to me a lot of drivers have lost their personalities or are not able to express themselves. However, it's a very commercial market, and manufacturers have a far bigger say than ever before.

My first car was a '69 Holden, which is an Aussie car.

I have an old car that I've rebuilt myself - a 1973 Dodge Challenger - and I also have a 1967 Pontiac GTO.

The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging.

Financial hardships were rough on us, even though Mom had a good job at G.M.

You can't develop a great car and sell it as an independent. You can develop a great car and make a deal with Mercedes.

I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.

Of course we want to pocket Fisker. But we will bid rationally. Whatever the result, nothing can stop us from making electric cars.

When you sell cars in the U.S., it forces you to be the most competitive.

The integrated automotive group of Volkswagen and Porsche is a certainty.

When Congress passes new emission standards, we hire 50 more engineers and GM hires 50 more lawyers.

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

Among males, conflict resolution requires a rapid return to the basics, preferably sports or automotive mechanics.

Porsche made more money last year from selling almost 190,000 cars than its parent company, Volkswagen, made from selling more than 4.5 million.

What if the Big Three automakers made products that were simple and easy to use - imagine a car with a user interface made by Apple - while also constantly trying to push the state of the art? What if they constantly sought out new technologies and ideas, and incorporated them into their products?

I like to have the widest part of the car being the wheels and not the body. It gives it a more athletic look and, with the sculpture, helps make a car look sexy.

The U.S. market has the highest priority for Volkswagen.

You look at what happened with Chrysler, it went through that bankruptcy, and it's re-emerged in a much different fashion, privately held in some of those things, and it's really putting out a great product.

All the technology going into self-driving cars is robotic technology. It's not automotive. That explains why some of the traditional automotive players didn't develop this technology.

The list of traceability for some automotive components needs to be rethought for new technologies to send adequate signals about the strengthening of the value chains in North America.

At a European auto show, I had someone from a German car company come up to me and say the Karma should cost $125,000, not $87,900, but our development process lets us lower the costs. I guarantee it's profitable.

I was encouraged to hear that GM has made great progress on the hydrogen car.