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Automobiles are like people: the cheap ones are noisy.

E. W. Howe Country Town Sayings (1911)

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

Fast, truly exciting cars are being killed off so that pretty soon the officers will all be gone, leaving us with a field full of enlisted men.

Jeremy Clarkson Born to be Riled (1999)

Looking out a dirty old window; down below the cars in the city go rushing by. I sit here alone and I wonder why.

Kim Wilde

And therein lies the reason why motor industry people don't fawn on journalists. They're in the hot seat, deciding who gets to drive what and who gets to go where. Why should they grovel when they know that without their assistance the motoring journalist is up the creek without a boat, nevermind a paddle?

Jeremy Clarkson Born to be Riled (1999)

In Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.

George Carlin Brain Droppings (1998)

I think cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals. I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

Roland Barthes The New Citroën (1957)

Averroës, Kant, Socrates, Newton, Voltaire, could any of them have believed it possible that in the twentieth century the scourge of cities, the poisoner of lungs, the mass murderer and idol of millions would be a metal receptacle on wheels, and that people would actually prefer being crushed to death inside it during frantic weekend exoduses instead of staying, safe and sound, at home?

Stanisław Lem The Futurological Congress (1971)

Then there's power. There was a time when people cooed over Ferraris that developed 200 horsepower, whereas today 2.0 litre Escorts can manage that. It's almost impossible to buy a car that won't do a hundred. (If you really want one, various Mercedes diesels make a pretty good stab at it.) Then there's the environment. The Volkswagen Beetle could kill a rain forest at 400 paces whereas today's Golf trundles around with tulips coming out of its exhaust. The gas coming out of a Saab is actually cleaner than the air that went in. That's true, that is.

Jeremy Clarkson Born to be Riled (1999)

The longstanding perception that bigger cars are safer is bolstered by vehicle safety ratings which look at the safety of the drivers and passengers, but don’t take into account the dangers any given vehicle poses to pedestrians, something European regulators consider. And these larger, heavier cars are harder on roads, which we all pay to maintain.

Jill Filipovic

... America aims at having a car for every citizen. I do not. I want freedom for full expression of my personality.

Mahatma Gandhi

Cars seemed to me to speak more clearly of Earth than any single thing else.

Algis Budrys Hard Landing (1993)

The lady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to morale than a fleet of Göring’s bombing planes.

George Orwell The Lion and the Unicorn (1941)

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely (1989)

Average new car costs nearly $50,000 a year.

J.D. Vance

When a mechanic wants to fix a broken-down car engine, he must have the necessary tools to do the job. When the people move for liberation they must have the basic tool of liberation: the gun.

Huey P. Newton

My father served the State by investing a weaving machine. He told me to make automobiles. It is difficult to create an automobile industry.

Kiichiro Toyoda Kiichiro Toyoda cited in: Ethiopia: Trade and Economic Review (1969)

Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

Leon Trotsky The Russian Revolution (1930)

The three radios, the six cars, the four refrigerators, the seven telephones in each of the 300,000 Jewish households, and the super-television![51]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline L'Ecole des cadavres (1938)

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