Automobiles and transport

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This page contains quotes and slogans about automobiles and transport.

[edit] About brands

[edit] BMW

• The ultimate driving machine

[edit] Ford

• People can have the Model T in any color -- so long as it's black. --Henry Ford (This is not true, however, as in the first four years of production, you couldn't get a black Model T!)
• Fix Or Repair Daily
• Found On Road Dead
• First On Race Day
• F___er Only Rides Downhill

[edit] FIAT

• "Fix It Again Tomorrow" or "Fix It Again, Tony"--Backronym about its reliability.

[edit] Jaguar

• "Grace...Space...Pace" --1950's advertising slogan, previously used by M.G.

[edit] Rolls-Royce

• "The quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten". -- Sir Henry Royce
• "Whatever is rightly done, however humble is noble". -- Sir Henry Royce
• "Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn’t exist, create it. Accept nothing as nearly right or good enough". -- Sir Henry Royce

[edit] Škoda

• "Oh no, another great Škoda!" --A popular sticker.

[edit] Volkswagen

• "It's not a car, it's a Volkswagen! 100% Slow."

[edit] Other (sourced)

• "I think 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' The New Citroën (1957)

• "Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Admittedly, there is the primal shock of the deserts and the dazzle of California, but when this is gone, the secondary brilliance of the journey begins, that of the excessive, pitiless distance, the infinity of anonymous faces and distances, or of certain miraculous geological formations, which ultimately testify to no human will, while keeping intact an image of upheaval. This form of travel admits of no exceptions: when it runs up against a known face, a familiar landscape, or some decipherable message, the spell is broken: the amnesic, ascetic, asymptotic charm of disappearance succumbs to affect and worldly semiology."

—Jean Baudrillard, America (1988), pp. 9-10

• "Ferraris are art, but they love being driven."

—Chris Evans, British presenter and DJ. Live magazine, the Mail on Sunday (UK) newspaper, 29th November 2009

• "Nine-tenths of our crimes an' calamities are made possible by th' automobile. It has unleashed all th' pent-up criminal tendencies o' th' ages. It's th' central figure in murders, hold-ups, burglaries, accidents, elopements, failures an' abscondments. It has well nigh jimmed th' American home.... No girl is missin' that wuzn' last seen steppin' in a strange automobile.... An' ther hain't a day rolls by that somebuddy hain't sellin' ther sewin' machine, or ther home, or somethin' t' pay on an automobile.... Maybe th' jails an' workhouses are empty, but that's not because th' world is gittin' better. It's because all th' criminals escape in automobiles."

—Kin Hubbard writing for his character, "th' Hon. Ex.-Editur Cale Fluhart."
Quoted in Norris W. Yeats, The American Humorist: Conscience of the Twentieth Century, Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1964, p. 107.

• "Automobiles move us towards immobility."

—Leonid S. Sukhorukov, eng.weekly.ua, (23 Dec 2009)

• The problem with traffic is that the people of today are driving the cars of tomorrow on the roads of yesterday.

—Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press, ca. 1987

[edit] Other (unsourced)

• "If the wings are moving faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe."

• "The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire."

• The three most common expresions in aviation are "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?", and "Oh Shit!"

• "When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get to the scene of the crash."

• "Mankind has a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there."

• "When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten."

• "Airspeed, Altitude, and Brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete a flight."

• "Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day."

• "You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal."

[edit] See also

• Plug-in hybrid