Henrik Fisker Quotes

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

I'm more into, like, colour than, like, the type of car and stuff. I don't know much about cars, so I'm just more into picking the right color.

In its heyday, the car was an expression of technical flair and design genius: the original Mini, the Beetle, the 2CV, and the Fiat 500 were all, in their various ways, inspired incarnations of functionality.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

I think the old classic Porsches are fantastic, with those lovely curved lines, but I don't like the modern ones at all.

The Aston Martin is a beautiful car. It's a work of art, I love the interior and the style of the car.

I think people are still conscious about how the car looks, whether they're going to be driven in it or not.

Porsche is a driver's car - a performance car. That was funny - here's this awesome car, but it's got no cup holders.

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.

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.

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.

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

I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design.

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 GTO is such an important car because it's a racing car and a touring car and that's pretty unusual.

I designed a sports car, the Cizeta-Moroder, with Marcello Gandini from Lamborghini; he did the Countach, of course. The Cizeta cost $600,000, but we could bargain - if a Japanese businessman says he wants it for three, fine.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

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.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

My motivation for starting Fisker was simple: I thought there must be a market for beautiful, exciting, fast, environmentally friendly cars. The car is probably the only product you can still fall in love with and have a relationship with.

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.

Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.

Design is very, very critical for the success of the car. We want to find the distinctive features for Chinese cars on the world stage.