Akio Toyoda Quotes

The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

I've always been into cars. Cars are part of our genetic makeup. It's unavoidable.

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

Sometimes people are looking for, 'What's the next Tesla car? What's this really cool, super-specific thing that people are going to want?' But I try to be just like a Ford truck. They sell a lot more Ford trucks than they do Tesla cars.

I've driven just about every kind of car there is.

Before 2000, we were unable to design a single car; all the cars were designed in Japan, Europe or somewhere else. We were just converting.

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.

Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I'm sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile's engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I promise to myself I will make cars that work and functions worldwide.

Our dream is to see Geely vehicles driven all over the world.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.

As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one.

I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

As a car lover, I ask myself, 'What am I going to be buying in the future? Will it be a boring, underpowered, dorky car because the government tells me I shouldn't pollute? Or do I come up with a cool-looking, sexy dream car that is also part of the future?'

Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.

My wife loves cars, but the difference is she doesn't have 20 years of understanding the background of them. She basically drives them and uses her gut feelings as to which is best.

Chrysler builds great cars.

Any car designer always dreams about designing their own car - if they say they don't, they're lying... For me, it was never about starting my own company just to make another car.