Your Favorite Car Quote?

A day without a Ferrari is like a day without sunshine.

 

...or 'if it's got t*t's or wheel's it gunna be expensive.


....also..

"To finish first,first you must finish", said by many including one of Aussie's/New Zealand's best...Jim Richards.

 

Old ad for a Maserati Biturbo ..."Use it 9 to 5, or zero to 60!"

A Ferrari will get you through times of no sex, but sex will not get you through times of no Ferrari.

 

After college me and my buddy opened up a tote the note lot. We sold some real beaters and always said " There's an ass for every seat" It's an old saying, but a good one.

 

"All Corvettes are red. The rest are mistakes". -- John Heinricy

Here's John doing his Red Green impression: http://www.corvettereport.com/1992-zr-1-corvette-video-hosted-by-corvete-engineer-john-heinricy-and-four-time-indy-500-winner-rick-mears/
Or was Red Green active in 1992? Maybe he's the INSPIRATION!

 

I vote 1 for Napolis', 2 for Clarkson's but a local one that I love came from an elder statesman of FCAustralia when he rolled his track day Alfa with a visiting international journalist aboard:
"Well it's never done that before...!" drawled out over about 30 seconds.

 

Heh,heh,uncle Ray.

 

My old boss, who spent his whole career in the automotive industry, used to say "cars are like blocks of ice, always melting." (referring to depreciation)

I told my grandpa this, who has been buying a new car every year for the past 50+ years and he said "yea but they sure are nice blocks of ice!"

 

Another one:

"You can never have too much power. What you can have is not enough traction or brakes or length of road."

 

"You cannot treat cars like humans. Cars need love." Walter Röhrl

I like this one, seen in German (car sticker): No airbags - we die like real men!

 

Excellence issue #201 has a piece on Porsche's Camp 4, their winter driving school in Canada. Here are a few Rohrl quotes from that piece:

-- "The true art of car control is felt in an unstable way of driving."

-- "If you have seen the tree you just hit you were understeering. If you only heard it, you were oversteering."

-- When your passenger is scared, it's oversteer. When you're scared, it's understeer."

 

Jackie Stewart told his engineer that he had a moment by one of the turns of Monaco, but he managed to save it. ~"If you saved it you weren't going fast enough."

 

Don't be a low life sleezeball early apexer.

 

"Owning a Ferarri is like dating a supermodel on cocaine. It looks good, is a lot of fun, but you know that something is going to eventually break and it's going to be expensive."

 

I had an '04 SVT Cobra and swapped out the supercharger for a Whipple. One day a neighborhood kid with a modified Civic noticed it and said

“Wow, your supercharger has more displacement than my whole engine!”

 

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In 1993, the all conquering Toyota Eagle GTP team went to the new infield course at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and although they won pole and the race, they were passed on the straight by 911 based race cars. When asked why, Dan Gurney said, "because they have reduced the size of our air intake to the diameter of a hummingbird's sphincter!"