Quotes About Automobile

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

My favourite example of good technology is the automobile. I travel all over the world and if I want to drive a car anywhere, I get in and put the key in the ignition, shift out of park and drive. I don't need an instruction manual.

I slept in the parking lot of the G. M. plant in Lordstown, Ohio.

I mean, you've got thirty detectives working on this murder, right? You must have had a list of suspects." "Not on this one." "So what we're talking about is blind luck. Some Beach cop nails the guy for running a traffic light and, bingo, there's Mr. Sparky Harper's missing automobile." "Luck was only part of it," Garcia said sourly. Keyes said, "You caught Cabal in the victim's car, but what else?

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

I've always wanted to pull my classic car up directly to my kitchen, get out, and leave the groceries right there.

As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.

Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember. Which

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.

At one point in the wake of the Hell's Angels uproar a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune‡ did a long article on the motorcycle scene and decided in the course of his research that "there is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder.

There is something about the sight of a passing motorcyclist that tempts many automobile drivers to commit murder.

I still miss my first car. Not a glamorous ride, but I must've put 60,000 miles in road trips on that thing.

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving.

The electronics industry expanded rapidly and the seeds for the semiconductor and software revolution were planted. The postwar period also saw the suburbanization of America, the rise of the homeowner, the build-out of the interstate highway system, and the rise of automobile culture. Credit availability expanded dramatically.

I bought a car, but not just any car; I bought a Volvo, which was the safest on the road at the time. It's not any more, so I upgraded to the Mercedes.

I have a Mercedes, which is a pretty fast car. It's not a Lamborghini.

I spent more than £150,000 on a limited-edition Mercedes SL.

One of the most fun inventions of my lifetime is the Mini.

My first car was a 2011 Mini Cooper, because I only learned to drive in 2010.

You save most fuel by lifting and coasting in the heavy braking zones at the end of long straights into slow corners.

couldn't help but think that young man probably has never seen the window crank in a car! That's the handle exclusively used to roll down windows before electric windows existed. My twenty-year-old Miata has window cranks, which, I might add, get the job done quite well.