Sergio Marchionne Quotes

Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

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.

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.

As long as Wanxiang exists, we will pursue our dream to make electric cars, whatever the obstacles.

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

Of course we want to pocket Fisker. But we will bid rationally. Whatever the result, nothing can stop us from making electric cars.

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

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international 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.

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.