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Richard Childress and myself have made some important innovations on our cars.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

The format of the race weekend is also very well thought out. We have enough practice time to get the cars well set-up and have a proper qualifying session where we can do as many laps as we like, which is great for the drivers and spectators.

Older cars tend to drive like older cars. That is not for me.

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.

I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.

Germans make nice cars.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

But my passion is racing cars. It's what I like to do in my off time.

I've actually made a prediction that within 30 years a majority of new cars made in the United States will be electric. And I don't mean hybrid, I mean fully electric.

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

I have about 40 cars, of which 25 to 30 are what you might call serious.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid, you're the slowest, and if you qualify first on the grid, you're the fastest. So no one can say you're slow if you're fast and no one can say you're fast if you're slow.

I don't buy fur coats or jewelry. I have old cars.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.

I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.

I just feel rejuvenated in such a big way because of these race cars I get to drive.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.

I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

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.

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.

Buyers of powerful cars place a high premium on the exhaust note, and manufacturers spend a lot of money getting it right. At the same time, high-end cars are expected to filter out the sounds of the mundane world.

I am a big car enthusiast. I totally understand guys like Jay Leno who have a thousand cars. But asking me my favorite car would be like asking my favorite song or favorite food - it changes everyday.

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!

The years I raced in were fantastic. There was so much change in the cars. We went from treaded tyres to no wings right through to slicks to enormous wings.

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.

Running on different types of racetracks is challenging - not only for the drivers, but even more for the team members who have to make adjustments to the cars before each race.

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

The red car, even before I knew it was called Ferrari, was my obsession.

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.

I was brought up in a car family, my dad loved cars and I was taught the art of making an Austin 7 operate.

I wish people would spend their money on hybrid cars.

When I was four, I just wanted to drive, I collected toy cars. Where does that sort of thing come from? In hindsight you go, 'Oh, liked it because of this.' Maybe it's just the wheel.

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.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'