Alec Issigonis Quotes

No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

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 never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around with hot-rod magazines. As I would be at home fiddling with my guitar, they would be fiddling with a car engine.

I remember when I started off, my first car was a Kia Spectra. With a spoiler kit and some rims.

I love the shape of cars. They are very inspiring as modern pieces of machinery. I can't drive, but I do like the look of them.

Cars for me are like a piece of art.

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.

Our car looks better than everything I've seen so far.

I would design any vehicle, but probably least likely... a minivan.

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 hate to take compromises with a racing car. The more standard a car is, the more compromises you have to take.

Cars mean nothing to me. I'm not a car guy.

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

'Fast & Furious' is a well-oiled machine. Those guys really know what they're doing. The guys that work behind the scenes are just as important as the ones in front of the cameras. They are car enthusiasts. They live and breathe this world.

My dad was a big car guy. If you wanted to spend time with my dad, he was working on the car.

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

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.

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.

When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling.

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

The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better.