We kennen allemaal de bekende quotes als Horsepower sells cars, Torque wins races (Carroll

Shelby) en Form follows function (Dr. Ferdinand Porsche). Maar er is een hele waslijst met dit
soort oneliners
Via het forum van vwvortex.com vonden we de onderstaande quotes en bijbehorende personen.
Mocht je aanvullingen hebben dan horen we ze graag!
- Aerodynamics are for people who cant build engines. (Enzo Ferrari)
- My God, theyve done it to the other side too! (Giorgetto Giugiaro toen hij de andere kant van
de Triumph TR7 bekeek)
- It looks like a dog doing a poo. (Jeremy Clarkson over de Chrysler Crossfire)
- If you can leave black marks on a straight from the time you exit a corner till the time you brake
for the next turn, then you have enough horsepower. (Mark Donohue)
- Mister Bentley builds the fastest trucks in the world. (Ettore Bugatti over concurrent Bentley,
welke zware en snelle autos maakte)
- I build cars to go, not to stop. (Ettore Bugatti over de slechte kwaliteit van zijn remmen)
- Motor racing in my day was very dangerous and sex was safe (Jackie Stewart)
- Simplicate, then add lightness. (Colin Chapman)
- If everything seems under control, youre just not going fast enough. (Mario Andretti)
- Im designing a concert hall for a 12 cylinder orchestra. (de Belgische Luc Donckerwolke,
Lamborghini Design)
- If everything is under control you are just not driving fast enough. (Stirling Moss)
- There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the
day they built the second automobile. (Richard Petty)
- There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering all the rest are
merely games. (Ernest Hemmingway)
- You buy a Ferrari when you want to be somebody. You buy a Lamborghini when you are
somebody. (Frank Sinatra)
- The quality goes on long after the price is forgotten. (Rolls Royce)
- Land speed record breaking is like warfare and seduction. Lots of hanging around followed by
moments of intense activity. (Richard Noble)
- I need NOS! (Paul Walker)
- Difficult we can do, impossible will take a little longer (Smokey Yunick)
- I dont think so, theres no one at McLaren who can weld that badly. (Gordon Murray, designer
van de McLaren F1, over de gelijkenissen met de Ferrari F40)
- I was doing fine till mid corner, then I ran out of talent and spun the car. (Unknown)
- Life itself is a race, marked by a start, and a finish. It is what we learn during the race, and how
we apply it, that determines whether our participation has had particular value. If we learn from
each success, and each failure, and improve ourselves through this process, then at the end, we
have fulfilled our potential and performed well. (Ferdinand Porsche)
- Oversteer is when the passenger screams, understeer is when the driver screams. (Unknown)
- I spent 90% of my money on women, drink and fast cars. The rest I wasted. (George Best)
- If you have to ask, you cant afford it. (J.P. Morgan)
- If its got turbo lag, you aint driving it right. (Carroll Shelby)
- Brakes only slow you down. (Enzo Ferarri)
- In the olden days I always got the impression that TVR built a car, put it on sale, and then found
out how it handled. Usually when one of their customers wrote to the factory complaining about
how dead he was. (Jeremy Clarkson)
- This is a Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not thats much to shout
about. Thats like saying, Ooh good, Ive got Syphilis, the best of the sexually transmitted
diseases. (Jeremy Clarkson)
- Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them youve got the
ebola virus and youre about to sneeze. (Jeremy Clarkson)
- In many ways then this car is like herpes. Great fun catching it but not so much fun live with
every day. (Jeremy Clarkson over de Corvette Z06)
- Very popular with murderers, these cars. (Jeremy Clarkson over de Camaro)
- The car is a piece of sh!t, but I can make it raceworthy. (Niki Lauda tegen Enzo Ferrari, over de
312 F1 bolide)


Het is alweer vijf jaar geleden dat we jullie een lijstje met legendarische quotes uit de autowereld
voorschotelden. Hoog tijd voor een vervolgdeel.
Over autos heeft iedereen wel een mening, die varieert van 4 stoelen en een stuur tot wat meer
diepzinnige opinies. De volgende vonden wij de moeite van het reproduceren waard:
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of
the great sympathetic nervous system. Jean Cocteau, Frans dichter.
Send me your Viper, I wont part it out John Hennessey
And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With
your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very
high. Racing, competing, its in my blood. Its part of me, its part of my life; I have been doing it
all my life and it stands out above everything else. Ayrton Senna
I need NOS! Brian OConner
Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner.
They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider
streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations. P.
J. ORourke, Amerikaans journalist en libertarir.
Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be
obliterated. Jean Baudrillard, Frans socioloog en filosoof.
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. E(lwyn) B(rooks) White,
Amerikaans schrijver
You got a fast car Tracy Chapman
I think that 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, Frans filosoof
No other man-made device since the shields and lances of the ancient knights fulfills a mans ego
like an automobile. Sir William Rootes
The reason American cars dont sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the
American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars
are not beautiful. Thats why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire. Karl
Lagerfeld, gehandschoend modeicoon en hater van dikkerds.
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically
old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution,
noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very
muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented,
electronic society. J. G. Ballard, Brits schrijver (geb. 1930)
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.
Will Rogers
To finish first, you must first finish. Juan Manuel Fangio
I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Dominic Toretto
Speed never killed anyone, suddenly becoming stationary, thats what gets you. Jeremy
Clarkson
Winning is everything. The only ones who remember you when you come second are your wife and
your dog. Damon Hill