Favorite Car "Quotes" Thread

I'd sure like to see a published source for that first quote

 

That's a pretty big published source if I may say so.

 

"You see, I think Ferrari is a scaled down verison of...God." --Jeremy Clarkson.

 

Walter Röhrl once said: "Man kann ein Auto nicht wie ein menschliches Wesen behandeln - ein Auto braucht Liebe."

Translates into: "You can't treat a car like a human being - a car needs love."

 

"You can sleep in your car, but you can't drive your house"- Unknown (to me. )

 

I couldn't find the quote in english, so I'm loosely translating from german again:

Fangio: "The best recipe against getting old is snoozing behind the wheel of a driving car"

 

In 1930, Enzo hired Nuvolari to drive in the Targa Florio and bought him a return ticket.

Nuvolari's response was: "What a strange businessman you are. What if I am brought back in a coffin?"

Can you imagine any current F1 driver having an outlook like this?

 

"I want to die quietly, and in my sleep. Not like the screaming passengers in the back of the car." --I think it's a Jack Handy Quote.

 

"If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti

 

Endurance racing cars is like making love to a gorrila, you don't get to stop because you're tired!

 

Paul Newman's favorite sound: "A V8".

 

"But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know"- Enzo Ferrari

 

On one of the disgusting rap CDs my kids used to listen to going to school:

"Get in. Don't touch nuthin."

Actually my feelings exactly in having someone in my car.

Especially the mousehair...don't touch it!

 

Many from this movie, but the classic:

"And now, the first rule of Italian driving....whatsa behind me, is not important".

 

"If you don't believe in cooperation, just observe what happens to a wagon when one wheel comes off"
unknown

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Upon receiving a complaint that a Bugatti Royale didn't like to start on cold mornings:
"Anyone who can afford a Bugatti can certainly afford a heated garage!"
Ettore Bugatti

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True that!

 

"If you block cars and drive like a woman, you will never become great."
– Clay Regazzoni

(said back in the days before women competed in major racing events)


And here is an interesting pair of quotes about racing:

"You win some. You lose some. You wreck some."
– Dale Earnhardt
"You do things, you f**k people, it's racing."
– Niki Lauda


"While I was committed 100%, he was committed 120%. It was scary."
- Alain Prost talking about Ayrton Senna

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"David Piper"

 

LOTUS: Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious


Learned when I was researching buying an Esprit 5 yrs ago. This acronym and a walk through the Lotus forum was enough for me.

 

NASCAR star Jeff Gordon, after test driving Montoya's F1 car at Indy and going off track.
"My car will kill that thing in the grass".

 

Fuel Injection is nice, BUT

I'd rather be BLOWN!

 

Finishing second in a race just means you are the first loser!!

 

All throttle, no bottle.