Automobile Quotes

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- “Aerodynamics are for people who can’t build engines.” (Enzo Ferrari)

- “My God, they’ve done it to the other side too!” (Giorgetto Giugiaro on first seeing the Triumph TR7)

- “It looks like a dog doing a poo.” (Jeremy Clarkson on the Chrysler Crossfire)

- “If you can leave black marks on a straight from the time you exit a corner till the time you brake for the next turn, then you have enough horsepower.” (Mark Donohue)

- “Mister Bentley builds the fastest trucks in the world.” (Ettore Bugatti)

- “I build cars to go, not to stop.” (Ettore Bugatti)

- “Motor racing in my day was very dangerous… and sex was safe” (Jackie Stewart)

- “Simplicate, then add lightness.” (Colin Chapman)

- “If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” (Mario Andretti)

- “I’m designing a concert hall for a 12 cylinder orchestra.” (Luc Donckerwolke, Lamborghini Design)

- “There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.” (Richard Petty)

- “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering – all the rest are merely games.” (Ernest Hemmingway)

- “You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are somebody.” (Frank Sinatra)

- “The quality goes on long after the price is forgotten.” (Rolls Royce)

- “Land speed record breaking is like warfare and seduction. Lots of hanging around followed by moments of intense activity.” (Richard Noble)

- “I don’t think so, there’s no one at McLaren who can weld that badly.” (Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1, when asked whether he'd drawn inspiration from the Ferrari F40)

- “I was doing fine till mid corner, then I ran out of talent and spun the car.” (Unknown)

- “Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we have fulfilled our potential and performed well.” (Ferdinand Porsche)

- “Oversteer is when the passenger screams, understeer is when the driver screams.” (Unknown)

- “I spent 90% of my money on women, drink and fast cars. The rest I wasted.” (George Best)

- “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.” (J.P. Morgan)

- “If its got turbo lag, you ain’t driving it right.” (Carroll Shelby)

- “Brakes only slow you down.” (Enzo Ferarri)

- “In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about how dead he was.” (Jeremy Clarkson)

- “This is a Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that’s much to shout about. That’s like saying, “Ooh good, I’ve got Syphilis, the best of the sexually transmitted diseases.” (Jeremy Clarkson)

- “Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you’ve got the ebola virus and you’re about to sneeze.” (Jeremy Clarkson)

- “In many ways then this car is like herpes. Great fun catching it but not so much fun live with every day.” (Jeremy Clarkson on the Corvette Z06)

- “Very popular with murderers, these cars.” (Jeremy Clarkson on the Camaro)

- “The car is a piece of sh!t, but I can make it raceworthy.” (Niki Lauda to Enzo Ferrari, on the 312 F1 racecar)

[Rob99T]

* Anyone can drive a fast car, few can drive a car fast.

"If you can leave two black stripes from the exit of one corner to the braking zone of the next, you finally enough horsepower". Mark Donohue

"Anyone can drive a perfect racecar, it takes a REAL man to drive this shitbox"
Captain Wally

"I never lost it, I just ran outta room to save it...."

"It was very fast in a certain kind of turn. Unfortunately, none of the tracks had that kind of turn."*

"Turbochargers are for people who can't build engines."---Keith Duckworth, Cosworth Engines

"The guys that are winning are the guys standing on the biggest pile of parts!" Carrol Smith

If you can’t get it going with bungee cords and electrician’s tape, it’s serious.*

Only a Biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.*

* All I had to do is keep turning left! (George Robson - Winner of the 1946 Indy 500)

* Anyone can drive a fast car, few can drive a car fast.

* Calling upon my years of experience, I froze at the controls. (Stirling Moss)

* The cost of racing hasn't increased in 30 years. Back then, it took everything you had. And it still does.

* Fast cars drag race, fast drivers road race.

* Faster, faster, faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death... (Hunter Thompson)

* Friends don't let friends apex early.

* Horsepower has this tendency to break things. If you're not breaking anything you're not going fast enough.

* I always ask God for blessings of protection on that person in the car, for blessings of protection on the crew as they're attending to the car on pit road. And I always ask for peace of mind for the wife. (Dale Beaver - NASCAR chaplain)

* I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's. (Ayrton Senna)

* I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

* I feel safe when I'm on the racetrack, I really do. I know that I'm surrounded by the best drivers in the world. That's something you can't say when you're driving down the interstate. (Sterling Marlin)

* I feel safer on a racetrack than I do on Houston's freeways. (A. J. Foyt)

* I was doing fine until about mid-corner when I ran out of talent.

* If I had all the money I'd spent on cars...I'd spend it all on cars.

* In the old days drivers were fat and tires were skinny.

* It has been said that motor racing shares in common with sex the distinction of being one of the most popular, most maligned and least understood of human activities.

* It is amazing how may drivers, even at the Formula One Level, think that the brakes are for slowing the car down. (Mario Andretti)

* It is not always possible to be the best, but it is always possible to improve your own performance. (Jackie Stewart)

* It's basically the same, just darker. (Alan Kulwicki - on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons)

* Life may begin at 30, but it doesn't get real interesting until about 150.

* Never drive faster then your guardian angel can fly.

* Never run out of real estate, traction and ideas at the same time.

* The number of laps remaining is always one more than the amount of fuel left in the car.

* The number of times you get hit in a pileup is directly proportional to the number of times you said "I think it will go ok today".

* The older I get, the faster I was.

* A part never breaks during a test session, only during a race. And the part you need will be the one you left at the shop.

* The price for men in motion is the occasional collision... (Carroll Smith)

* Race cars are neither beautiful nor ugly. They become beautiful when they win. (Enzo Ferrari)

* Racing is living, everything else is just waiting.

* Racing is the process of turning money into noise.

* Straights are for fast cars. Turns are for fast drivers.

* A 10-car pileup never happens behind you!

* There's no secret. You just press the accelerator to the floor and steer left. (Bill Vukovich)

* To achieve anything in this game you must be prepare to dabble in the boundary of disaster. (Sterling Moss)


* What's behind you doesn't matter. (Enzo Ferrai)

* When I look fast, I'm not smooth and I am going slowly. And when I look slow, I am smooth and going fast. (Alain Prost)

* Winners win races. Champions make it look easy.

* You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood. (Ayrton Senna)

* You win some, you lose some, you wreck some. (Dale Earnhardt)*