Martin Winterkorn Quotes

I've got two old Volvos, two old Subarus, and an old Ford Ranger. If you've got an old car, you've gotta have at least several old cars, 'cause one's always gonna be in the garage.

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

If you have a car, you tune it up; you replace the parts. You try to keep it in good shape. This country has tires that are shot, a bunch of engine problems, and rather than saying, 'Okay, let's maybe put some new parts in here,' we just keep putting gas in and driving forward.

The general population isn't interested in the nitty-gritty of cars.

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

My husband is pretty particular about his cars. In his opinion, the Mercedes are the best of the best.

You have to think about whether that Mercedes-Benz you have is actually worth how much it costs to you.

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

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

My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn't properly care for it.

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

Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

Car technology needs to advance, and the best place for that to happen in is Silicon Valley.

After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

If you look at Jeep, Ram, and the premium brands, those are brands that will survive.

Connectivity offers a great opportunity for General Motors. When you look at the investment we have made in OnStar and putting 4GLT in and the access you have to not only put data in, and we haven't really tapped into the data you can use from the vehicle.

There's not a single doubt in my mind that the whole of Chrysler organization views itself as an American car producer.