“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.”
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“You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.”
“I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric.”
“Fast cars are my only vice.”
“Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.”
“I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.”
“Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!”
“I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.”
“I've always had an inquisitive mind about everything from flowers to television sets to motor cars. Always pulled them apart - couldn't put 'em back, but always extremely interested in how things work.”
“We often attribute 'understanding' and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars, adding machines, and other artifacts, but nothing is proved by such attributions.”
“You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.”
“Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.”
“No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start.”
“Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.”
“A car for every purse and purpose.”
“Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.”
“Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.”
“Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.”
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
“Never have more children than you have car windows.”
“Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.”
“Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.”
“When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.”
“My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.”