Robby Gordon Quotes

Everybody in my family who had a job worked in the auto industry or something related to it.

I have motor oil running through my veins.

I'm a huge NASCAR fan, but I'm not a gearhead. I've never been into fixing cars. It's not because I don't like it. I would love to know more. It's just my dad never taught me that stuff because my dad wasn't a mechanic.

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.

Go into the auto mechanic, you've got to know computers to be able to work on the cars.

It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.

I worked my way through art school as an auto mechanic, doing various stuff including sanding bodywork and using Bondo filler.

My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and then built cars. I inherited from him a love of cars, but with no technical ability whatsoever, sadly!

I believe the auto business is a highly comprehensive and complicated business. It's not that easy for people simply to enter and ruin the whole thing.

I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.

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

I studied to be a car mechanic. That was my plan B. Servicing cars and changing tyres in Finland.

There aren't too many women out there who talk about cars. So that one person who I talk the most to about cars is my husband. It constitutes about 90 per cent of our conversations.

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.

People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.

You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.

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

The automotive corporations, including Ford, I think are in the business of trying to make cars that people will drive.

I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past, due primarily to the high software content.

It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you have to have sophisticated equipment that can deal with microchips. We're entering a world in which the complexity of the devices and the system of interconnecting devices is beyond our capability to easily understand.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

The only magazines I read are car magazines.

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.