Vaclav Smil Quotes

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.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

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

I believe that Renault can provide me with a competitive car in the future, and that's what a driver needs and what a driver is looking for.

As a part of the Renault family, I want to develop the car and write new success stories.

I would design any vehicle, but probably least likely... a minivan.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

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.

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

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Our dream is to see Geely vehicles driven all over the world.

It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far away in terms of mechanical features. So you can make a flying car. But they are not very good planes, and they are not very good cars.

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

The Ford Motor Company has always been part of my life, and I continue to draw a lot of energy from this wonderful and exciting business.

In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relation to the way the automobile has looked. Phase One is really the Ford story. Function and production were the most important considerations. The automobile was an invention, and it looked like one.

I believe the auto industry is a competition of human resources, competition of funding, competition of technology - and the competition is international.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

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.

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

Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry.

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.