Eric Fellner Quotes

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

The problem with the auto industry is layered upon the lack of consumer confidence. People are not buying cars. I don't care whether they're or American cars, or international cars.

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

Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what was happening - these better-made foreign car companies were encroaching on the U.S., and the U.S. car makers had less than half of their own country's market.

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.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

When General Motors builds a car, they want to meet the specific needs of many customers. But if they custom-make each car, then it will not be economical.

One cannot compare Skoda with the Volkswagen brand. Volkswagen is the world's biggest brand selling over four million cars a year, so there is really nothing to compare.

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.

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

Chrysler builds great cars.

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.

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.

What I wanted to do was build an automobile.

A car designer is really a sculptor.

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.

Tesla is becoming a real car company.

You know what? Starting a car company is risky.

Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

I've got a great team of engineers behind this race car. I've got a great bunch of mechanics that make it reliable. This car is developed to go out there and be better than the Reynard, and I feel that it is.

The automotive year 2013 was, especially for European car makers, extremely challenging.

I love cars; I like the idea of manufacturing something, having a product, a hard product to sell and promote, but as time went on, I recognized that car companies are so bureaucratic and so ossified that it would take forever to work your way up. And so I went into consulting.

We have teams of people working on electric cars. So you never know - you may find Virgin competing with the Tesla in the car business as we do in the space business.

I love Obama to talk about Chrysler. It's the cheapest bloody advertising I can get.