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I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.
ROLAND BARTHES, Mythologies
All of those cars were once just a dream in somebody's head.
PETER GABRIEL, Mercy Street
The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
KARL LAGERFELD, Vanity Fair, Feb. 1992
- All dash to and fro in motor cars,
- Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.
The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
MARSHALL MCLUHAN, Understanding Media
As we drive down the freeways, we see the new cars, but not the massive new-car loans that enslave their drivers to the banks.
GERRY SPENCE, Give Me Liberty!
Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom. In terms of pollution, noise and human life, the price of that freedom may be high, but perhaps the car, by the very muddle and confusion it causes, may be holding back the remorseless spread of the regimented, electronic society.
J.G. BALLARD, Drive, Autumn 1971
Environmentally friendly cars will soon cease to be an option ... they will become a necessity.
FUJIO CHO, North American International Auto Show, 2004
I like cars. I like travel. I like the idea of people breaking down and I'm the only one who can help them get on the road again. It would be like being a magician. Just open up the hood and cast your magic spell.
SAM SHEPARD, Curse of the Starving Class
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