Automobile Revolution Quotes

1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

The automobile, practical since 1906, was proceeding to disintegrate and stamp anew the pattern of communication, manners, and city life in the United States, by 1918; before long, men would begin to see that the automobile, and the mass production techniques which made its possible, could alter the national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants. As a mechanical Jacobin, it rivaled the dynamo. The productive process which made these vehicles cheap was still more subversive of the old ways than was the gasoline engine itself.

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car -- out of pure malevolence no doubt -- changed the history of the world by reinventing man.

There has always been at each decisive period of the world’s history some voice, some note, that represented … prevailing power …. And now finally, there was heard in the streets the murmur of the newest and most perfect of forces, the automobile, rushing along at the rate of 25 miles and hour.

We're just getting started. We're just beginning to meet what will be the future-we've got the Model T.

Cars let us out of the barn and, while they were at it, destroyed the American nuclear family. As anyone who has had an American nuclear family can tell you, this was a relief to all concerned.

Car ownership as we know it will change. The promise of car ownership of the past, the freedom of open roads... the reality has been more of a burden.

This is the beginning, and the dawn of a new era of transportation.

The car was the iPhone of the 20th century. Kids these days don't have to drive anymore. They just go there virtually.

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

We have seen things in the twentieth century like the ATM machine, the VCR, and even the car. The electric car was invented in 1920, and here we, 100 years later, it is only now becoming an actual thing. So it doesn't surprise me that new ideas are met with a lot of questions.

I don't see the value in Tesla.

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

Early traction of Tesla is tracking very closely to Apple.

Nikola Tesla, one of Colorado's famous residents, always believed that the gasoline engine made no sense.

We loved cars until the '70s or so. Then they became appliances. They turned into motorized cup holders. Most of it has to do with urban sprawl. What began as pleasure ends up in necessity, as so many things do.

When Octavia was introduced in India in 2001, it had opened up new segments.

We don't realize how hard it was to drive anywhere outside the major cities less than a century ago.

The '20s are a very interesting period to me.

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Everyone thinks of the roaring twenties and associates it with decadence and flappers, female sexual liberation, the freedom of women to express themselves, the beginning of feminism. But it was also a time of huge, huge change.

Driving a Model T Ford was extremely difficult. The pedals are reversed from the way they are now. It's so crude, but that was the motorcar that started it all. It's an incredible part of history.

During the 1890s the middle classes and the wealthy began bicycle touring en masse. The result was the creation of a tourist service sector in the national economy. The building of these tourist services has been attributed to the automobile, but actually had its inception during the hegemony of the bicycle.