“I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.”
Cars represent freedom, status, engineering, and occasionally poor financial decisions. These quotes come from drivers, designers, racers, and people who just love being behind the wheel. Practical wisdom meets open-road romanticism.
“Can you design a Rorschach test that's going to make everyone feel something every time - and that looks like a Rorschach test? It's easy to show a picture of a kitten or a car accident. The question is, how abstract can you get and still get the audience to feel something when they don't know what's happening to them?”
“I've spent more on my Dodger tickets that I did on my car.”
“The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.”
“My first car was a motorcycle.”
“The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.”
“Every time I get into a Nationwide car after being in a Cup car, I feel so much more comfortable than I did previously.”
“Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.”
“I want a Mini-Cooper because it's fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It's small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.”
“Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.”
“I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.”
“You're pulling 4-5G for a lot of the corners around the lap. We build up lactic acid because there are a lot of vibrations in the car, and you have to have strong legs to hit the brake pedal. We need to be fit to do every lap at 100%.”
“It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.”
“If you think Abraham Lincoln became famous for inventing the town car, it is time to spend a few hours on history.”
“I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.”
“I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.”
“A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.”