Quotes About Automobile

There was nothing like it before in history: a machine that promised liberation from the daily bondage of place. And in a free country like the United States, with the unrestricted right to travel, a vast geographical territory to spread out into, and a national tradition of picking up and moving whenever life became intolerable, the automobile came as a blessing.

Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

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

I have always had this mentality because I hated to break anything on the car.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

Black with flames, that's how I always envisioned a roadster. That was the classic hot rod. I used to draw pictures of roadsters with flames on them in school.

I press the yellow trunk-release button inside the Camaro's cabin.

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

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

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations.

Alternatives to oil are coming up. In the long run, it is not going to be as bleak as people are predicting but surely consumption of fuel by automobile sector is going to go down.

I reached under the seat for my radar detector, which is thoroughly and completely illegal in the state of Connecticut, and floored it.

But separate a man from his car - that's inhuman.

Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.

Man, that woman was quick when she wanted to be. But put her behind the wheel of a Buick.

I have a real passion for driving. Earlier on in my life I wanted to be a race car driver. But I don't pay an extortionate amount of money for cars. I'm pretty frugal.

[on the BMW X3] If you are clinically insane, by which I mean you wake up in the morning and think you are an onion, here's your car.

Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

Three years after he came to town, he was elected one of the members of the common council of the town of Northampton, from Ward Two. It was in that year that the Northampton City Council was faced with the first serious traffic problem that had come up in a hundred years. Fred Jager brought an automobile to town. It was called a Locomobile. It went chugging up and down the streets and scared the horses. The Council resolved that something ought to be done.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

By obligation Pamela read me "The Posting," a warning to would-be owners that pure Border collies are essentially smarter than your average local elected official and slippier than Cool Hand Luke. They can jump six-foot fences, dig under walls, open doors and gates and in an emergency, hot-wire any automobile manufactured before 1998.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.

Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.