Jason Calacanis Quotes

But, I think I first got into cars because of an electric car - it was the Tesla. And then, just the fact that they are such high-tech products. There's automated driving. There's battery technology, all the other stuff that goes into it.

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.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

The automobile has moved into the mainstream of our integrated digital world.

I think Detroit is where muscle meets brains.

As a part of the Renault family, I want to develop the car and write new success stories.

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

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.

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Components are important in the evolution of cars, and there is increasing need for electronics.

I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volumes. If you're making 300,000 vehicles, you have to play it safe. Ultimately, the companies want to make customized cars, and they are all working on ways to do that. Experiments with structural systems are usually about that.

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 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 am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

Ultimately, auto designers need to overcome market challenges with innovative design solutions. The automotive industry is at a turning point with environmental and economic conditions on one side and breakthrough technology on the other, so it will be fascinating to see how these design leaders envision the future.

Chrysler builds great cars.

The car is the most regulated thing in the world. It's more complicated to make a car than it is to send a rocket to space.

The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 team members and dealers in North America - are among the best in the auto industry.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

I come from Denmark; Fisker Automotive comes from California.

Engineers are behind the cars we drive, the pills we pop and the way we power our homes.

The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.

I don't put Tesla in the Amazon category. They have not proved to me that, as a financial model and an economic model, it is going to work.