Michael Schumacher Quotes

A racing car is an animal with a thousand adjustments.

I developed a passion for cars when I was a kid. I found a tyre on the street, and I figured that I could roll it successfully. That made me love wheels.

In my day it was 75 percent car and mechanic, 25 percent driver and luck. Today it's 95 percent car.

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.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the masses. While I want a Formula One race car.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

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

When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

When I got to Ferrari I learnt to be less aggressive, and how to set up the car for my driving style.

My goal in the beginning was to build a lifestyle brand around what I love to do, which is motorcycles and cars. That was our main goal from the very beginning.

America has done a great job making brutally fast, stripped-down cars.

Racing cars which have been converted for road use never really work. It's like making a hard core adult film, and then editing it so that it can be shown in British hotels. You'd just end up with a sort of half hour close up of some bloke's sweaty face.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship...As an engineer, I revolt against this.

I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.

I've been saying I really want to get a 1992 Jeep Sahara, and I'm going to paint it so it looks like the 'Jurassic Park' Jeep. I've actually seen a guy who did have a Jeep Sahara, and he did make it look like the 'Jurassic Park' Jeep. I gave him a thumbs up and said, 'You're awesome!'

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.

In the movies, every crazy old fart needs a cool old car. Jack Nicholson drove a spiffy yellow 1970 Dodge Challenger two-door in 'The Bucket List.' In 'Gran Torino,' the cranky pensioner played by Clint Eastwood not only owned a 1972 GT Sport, he also used to build cars like that at the Ford plant.

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

My brothers were big car guys.

It's probably 10% luck and 45-45 on the driver and the car. If you have a bad car, you're done.