Car Culture Quotes

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

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

… an ideology on wheels

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.' I painted a Union Jack on the roof. I was absolutely in love with it until I destroyed it, which broke my heart!

No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

I'm very into my cars. I always ready the Top Gear magazines just to see what cars are out next and what sort of performance they give. It can range from the smallest cars to the biggest ones.

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.

I just love cars; I've been like that since I was a kid. It's an infatuation because we grew up poor. Cars was something we were always trying to get.

I built a lot of hot rods and stuff.

He ordered Ronan to put on some terrible music--Ronan was always too happy to oblige in this department--and then he abused the Camaro at every stoplight on the way out of town. "Put your back into it!" Gansey shouted breathlessly. He was talking to himself, of course, or to the gearbox. "Don't let it smell fear on you!" Blue wailed each time the engine revved up, but not unhappily. Noah played the drums on the back of Ronan's headrest. Adam, for his part, was not wild, but he did his best not to appear unwild, so as not to ruin it for the others.

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!'

If you goin' to work, you gonna put my album on. If you happen to be makin' an hour-and-a-half drive, you gonna put my album on, because people spend more time in their car then they do in clubs.

My friend named his car. And I don't want to be judgemental, but... what a dork.

The more cars, the better show.

What happened to the tradition of walking to school? The simple answer is change. Change in traffic patterns and street planning that have made school routes less pedestrian-friendly.

Volkswagen has been, is, and will always be my life.

American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

L.A. has a fantastic car scene and because the climate is so gentle, cars can last forever.

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.

If you live in L.A. long enough, you get into having a cool car.

The only difference between the Bel Air of the '90s and the Bel Air of my childhood is that now the nannies are Latina instead of British, and the cars European instead of American.

I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.

L.A. is not a place where people walk.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.