Car Quotes

“Plug-in hybrid”

“The best British cars are Italian.”

“Every 17 minutes a car hits one person. Poor guy! (Krecia Pataczkówna)”

“Automobiles are like people: the cheap ones are noisy.”

“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”

“Not a single pedestrian has run over a car yet, but for some reason motorists are still unhappy.”

“Here in my car, I feel safest of all. I can lock all my doors. It's the only way to live, in cars.”

“[J]umped out of bed and put on my best suit, got in my car and raced like a jet all the way to you.”

“Remember, there might be a bigger idiot than you in that other car. (from Be Caruso of a Steering Wheel)”

“Looking out a dirty old window; down below the cars in the city go rushing by. I sit here alone and I wonder why.”

“... America aims at having a car for every citizen. I do not. I want freedom for full expression of my personality.”

“In the old days, a car traveling at 25 km/h caused everyone to be amazed. And it still does. (from the I Was Mercedes Tire)”

“Fast, truly exciting cars are being killed off so that pretty soon the officers will all be gone, leaving us with a field full of enlisted men.”

“Everyone with no car, wants to buy it. And anyone who has a car, wants to sell it. And he doesn't do it just because he will stay without a car.”

“A car is a vehicle that moves due to the explosive combustion of gasoline in the engine and stops for some unknown reason. (Rojek's Auto Dictionary)”

“Our interest in your Rolls-Royce car does not cease when you take delivery of the car. It is our ambition that every purchaser of a Rolls-Royce car shall continue to be more than satisfied.”

“And therein lies the reason why motor industry people don't fawn on journalists. They're in the hot seat, deciding who gets to drive what and who gets to go where. Why should they grovel when they know that without their assistance the motoring journalist is up the creek without a boat, nevermind a paddle?”

“The longstanding perception that bigger cars are safer is bolstered by vehicle safety ratings which look at the safety of the drivers and passengers, but don’t take into account the dangers any given vehicle poses to pedestrians, something European regulators consider. And these larger, heavier cars are harder on roads, which we all pay to maintain.”

“In Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.”

“Automobiles go hither and yon, wherever and whenever the driver desires, without timetables. Automobiles encourage people to think they—unsupervised, untutored, and unscripted—are masters of their fates. The automobile encourages people in delusions of adequacy, which make them resistant to government by experts who know what choices people should make.”