Automotive Design Quotes

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the info-gadgets with which late industrial people spend the most time - phones, music players, etc. - are blobjects.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.

When I'm in L.A., I see Teslas like they're Hondas.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

I can remember the first time I tried to drive into the garage of the world headquarters of Ford in a Camry. It was almost like they wouldn't let me in. They said, 'Why do you want to do that?' I said, 'Because we are going to make the best cars in the world, and we need to know everything about the competitor's car.'

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

At Tesla, we don't go into a community and think we're going to sell one or two cars.

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

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

It seems to me a lot of drivers have lost their personalities or are not able to express themselves. However, it's a very commercial market, and manufacturers have a far bigger say than ever before.

My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.

I think women like Ferraris. A Ferrari is everybody's car.

Chrysler builds great cars.

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'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!'

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.

I think is very important that Formula E can apply its technology to everyday cars and everyday usage just as F1 is sort of a testing formula for improvement in road 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.

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.

I think the old classic Porsches are fantastic, with those lovely curved lines, but I don't like the modern ones at all.

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