Martin Winterkorn Quotes

One of the first things a British visitor to Southern California discovers is that he must have a car. Freeways. Bad public transport. I took driving lessons.

From 1997 when we came in, you guys and the public bought seven million more cars. You didn't get rid of the second car, did you? So what is happening is the growth of cars on the motorway.

Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.

A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.

I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

We could live in a much better society if there was less personal car ownership.

In the U.S. or in the West, mobility means owning your own car. Cities are designed around spread-out suburbs, societal customs are that kids get a car after a certain age, and car ownership is very high.

I thought cars were essential ingredients of life itself.

I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate.

My very first car was a grey Alfa Romeo Alfasud, which I got in 1987. But, in our family, all cars were for sale - so they might be there in the morning and were gone at night. In the mid-90s, I joined Porsche and the Carrera was the car, and the Carrera 4S was the one they gave me. As a wee boy from Dumfries, I couldn't believe it.

Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know anyone who had a car until I was 14 or 15.

The automobile is an American cultural symbol.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

I'm as American as Chevrolet.

Not owning a car anymore, I feel like I'm barely an American. I miss it. And I barely ever get to listen to the radio in the car, which is the best place for radio.

New York is hard for me. I grew up in Texas. I can't do without my car, and you can't have a car in New York.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

We aren't addicted to oil, but our cars are.

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

When my car runs out of gas, I buy a new one. I don't want to ride around in a quitter.

In America we don't just drive cars. We inhabit them.

A great hullabaloo is being made in Germany over the people’s car – seven million are to be built and almost ever family will have its own little car.

Think of a world where there is no ride-sharing; people are driving themselves to work. You now have 30 people being served by 30 cars. Those 30 cars are only served 4% of the day; 96% of the day, they're stored somewhere. Around 20% to 30% of our land is taken up just storing these hunks of metal that we drive around in for 4% of the day.

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.