Winfried Vahland Quotes

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

Chrysler builds great cars.

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.

I love technology - yes, I have fallen in love with older cars, but I'm all for new technology.

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

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed.

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 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.

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

At Indy, we are the NASA of the production-car world, and that's clearly why manufacturers are involved - it's such a good testbed.

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

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

I will build a motorcar for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one.

Building cars is highly specialized, it's hard, and it's capital intensive.

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.

Consumers want safe and really efficient automobiles.

F1's ability to problem-solve is second to none and our ability to make rapid prototype parts is again second to none.

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

I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.

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.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.