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Quotes About Automotive

I remember that, one day, I was visiting one training center in the 1990s that was teaching people how to fix Volkswagen engines from the 1960s, which were no longer sold. So you were training people on a skill that had zero value. The reason is that they hadn't received any new equipment in 20 years.
~ James Heckman
I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
~ Adam Carolla
In the automotive domain, generally speaking, when you look at consortium models, the groups that have leading technology are less incentivized to contribute to the consortia.
~ Karl Iagnemma
I was at Ford for 32 years. I went to Chrysler in 1978, four or five months after I got canned by Henry Ford.
~ Lee Iacocca
I'm an automotive fan. I love motor sports, and I love to watch motor sports. I love it all.
~ William Fichtner
In the automotive realm, a car is now a computer on wheels, with electronics representing roughly 40% of the cost of a car.
~ Klaus Schwab
while AI is busy improving itself, robotics' industry spending is set to exceed $135 billion in 2019, nearly double its 2015 figure.[132] Not only will vehicles lose their drivers, the vehicles themselves are likely to be built by robots, especially since the automotive industry is the number one buyer of automated robots
~ Klaus Schwab
Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.
~ Caroll Shelby
The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected.
~ Shuji Nakamura
There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.
~ Sergio Marchionne
If you go back to a century ago, the major problems of electrical and mechanical engineering had to do with how to place a huge gun on a moving platform, namely a ship, designing it to be able to hit a moving object, another ship, so naval gunnery. That was the most advanced problem in metallurgy, electrical and mechanical engineering, and so on. England and Germany put huge efforts into it, the United States less so. Out of associated innovations comes the automotive industry.
~ Noam Chomsky
Mexico has acquired unique experience during its integration into global value chains, especially in the automotive industry.
~ Enrique Pena Nieto
A lot of our work at Intel was on the automotive side: in the head unit, engine, and brake controllers.
~ Brian Krzanich
We have been very reluctant to make statements about where the industry is going to go. The Wrangler is going hybrid in 2020. We don't make much noise about that, but it will happen.
~ Sergio Marchionne
refurbish and resell used cars
~ Walter Isaacson
El Apple Watch va de camino de convertirse en una nueva categoría destacada en el sector sanitario, pero el proyecto automovilístico de Apple, el Proyecto Titan, parece haberse estancado, estar incluso moribundo.
~ Leander Kahney
Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.
~ Elon Musk
The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions.
~ Peter Diamandis
Our goal is to make General Motors the most valuable automotive company. Clearly, that is having sustainable profitability and driving great returns for our shareholders.
~ Mary Barra
For me, the '60s in the automotive industry was awesome. The cars are heavy, huge, rolling works of art.
~ Apolo Ohno
We had some fine chats about Jesus, Homer, and the Rig Veda from a strictly automotive point of view.
~ Woody Allen
All American cars are basically Chevrolets.
~ Herb Caen
You only produce one car less than the demand for the vehicle. You just don't exceed that equation.
~ Sergio Marchionne
We manufacture automotive components including critical engine and axle parts for passenger cars, diesel engines and medium & heavy commercial vehicles. Till 1997, our focus was almost entirely on the domestic market with a relatively insignificant portion of revenues from exports.
~ Baba Kalyani