Lewis Hamilton Quotes

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

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company.

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

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.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

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

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

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

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?'

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.

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

A car designer is really a sculptor.

I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

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

I'd love to be part of the process of building cars.

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

There is a lot of development to be done at Toyota. It will be tough in the beginning, but the chances are very good, so that is why I decided on this team in the first place.

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.

I would say that if there is one thing we could have done better in the last 10 years under my watch, is when we launched what we called 'the new car.' It is now called the Gen-5. We just didn't get the collaboration we needed to get from the industry, the owners, the drivers, the engineers and car manufacturers.