Enzo Ferrari Quotes

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

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 have a lot of respect for the auto manufacturers. They make a product people live inside - and can die inside - so they are held to very high standards.

We realized you cannot create a car by simply gathering needed components.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

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

To me, Scorpio was a big bet and a quantum leap in the kind of sophistication of our products. People forget that, apart from the Bolero and the Armada, until the nineties we never made hard-top vehicles.

The general population isn't interested in the nitty-gritty of cars.

As far as passenger cars are concerned, I have always said, in the past, we will work more with partners and partnerships. Our focus on our own would be on the SUVs.

We are a company that can actually manufacture cars.

I think that the Detroit auto industry is important to the United States. It's important for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have their jobs as a result.

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.

I'm an automotive fan. I love motor sports, and I love to watch motor sports. I love it all.

I've always had a fascination with cars and racing, not that I've ever competed.

People say that F1 is blessed with the 'best drivers in the world,' but I want to witness the 'total best drivers in the world,' and this means taking away the elements that make their job easier.

As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.

I'm fearless when it comes to engineering and motors and gears and pulleys and glass and artwork.

Whether it's with my engineers in the team, my home life, or my friends, I don't like things to get complicated - and one good example would be the steering wheel in my Mercedes Formula 1 car.

Fiat has assembly plants in Brazil and Argentina.

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

There is a lot of development to be done at Toyota. It will be tough in the beginning, but the chances are very good, so that is why I decided on this team in the first place.

I try to work on houses not cars. If I was as good at working on cars as I was on houses maybe I would. But I'm not.

I would say that if there is one thing we could have done better in the last 10 years under my watch, is when we launched what we called 'the new car.' It is now called the Gen-5. We just didn't get the collaboration we needed to get from the industry, the owners, the drivers, the engineers and car manufacturers.

I don't see anything changing about our desire for quality and fuel efficiency and safety and smart design, no matter what the vehicle size.