Baba Kalyani Quotes

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.

There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

I believe there's still room for the dream a lot of people in the industry have - to design and build your own cars.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

There's no doubt that we are, by traditional automotive manufacturing standards, an automotive conglomerate. And so that causes confusion by definition.

Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.

I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volumes. If you're making 300,000 vehicles, you have to play it safe. Ultimately, the companies want to make customized cars, and they are all working on ways to do that. Experiments with structural systems are usually about that.

I'm very proud of the auto industry in Michigan.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.