Driver Steve Frieson, on the Silver State Classic Challenge road race, where some amateurs can hit speeds of more than 200 m.p.h. on a two-lane road: “I feel safer in this race than I do during my commute. Nobody is making a phone call, putting on makeup or reading the newspaper.”
Automobiles Quotes
I not only want a car that is built in accordance with the basic principles of physics and in light of an empirically verified, well-winnowed tradition of automobile design, but I also want it screwed together right.
They think they can make fuel from horse manure – Now, I don’t know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it’s sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
We live in a mixed-up world. Now a car is the necessity and walking is the luxury.
The best, the most exquisite automobile is a walking stick; and one of the finest things in life is going on a journey with it.
If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.
Was the first “murder by vehicle” plea-bargained down to “traffic accident” to salve the conscience of our new-born hedonism? The alibi-addicted? The anti-authority, reject-responsibility generation? Have our feckless political pimps and bureaucratic bunglers – hell-bent-for-election – caved in to an apathetic and depraved society? Speeding is fun. You can’t abrogate my pleasure. Isn’t that what […]
It is said that the only time a person feels more important than the whole of his community is when he is insane – or when he is driving. This is the basis of car culture, the idea that the world and all of the world’s people are merely in its way.
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourse.
I’m not a fighter, I have bad reflexes. I was once run over by a car being pushed by two guys.
