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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. -- Paloma Picasso
Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it. -- Jonathan Ive
As the son of a racing car designer and mechanical engineer, I was exposed to motorsports from day one. -- Charlie Kimball
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. -- Henrik Fisker
My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design. -- Alec Issigonis
Sam's light-cycle, the car, and the jets are new of course, and other stuff. The new ones are sleeker and so contemporary, that if you could put them in a car design show they would hold up. -- Daniel Simon
Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one. -- Carlos Ghosn
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. -- John Maeda
When I see a car I've designed going down the street and somebody admiring it, that's a nice feeling. -- Henrik Fisker
I believe there's still room for the dream a lot of people in the industry have - to design and build your own cars. -- Henrik Fisker
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. -- Baba Kalyani
Writers now are putting total faith in designers at Apple and Amazon. It's almost like a race-car driver having no input into how cars are designed. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I'm such a girl because all the guys go for cars because of their engines or something like that. I like the colour and the design. -- Nathalie Kelley
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, is more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons. -- Marilyn French
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. -- Martin Jacques
Design - pure beauty - will be number one at Fisker Coachbuild. We want to bring beautiful, desirable cars to the market, limit the production of each model, and do so with the highest quality. -- Henrik Fisker
I designed a sports car, the Cizeta-Moroder, with Marcello Gandini from Lamborghini; he did the Countach, of course. The Cizeta cost $600,000, but we could bargain - if a Japanese businessman says he wants it for three, fine. -- Giorgio Moroder
LaFerrari' means 'the Ferrari.' The excellence. In this car, we put everything we are able to do. Our extreme technology, extreme experience, extreme capability. And this has been the first Ferrari totally designed in our design center. -- Luca Cordero di Montezemolo
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that's because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. -- Richard Dawkins
Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being. -- Bill Bryson
Wearing a bold print gets harder as you get older. It's safer to stick to subtle prints or block colours. I have always found prints quite tricky. My daughter Carly, who is on the design team at Stella McCartney, is obsessed with them. -- Twiggy
I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything. -- Carroll Shelby
I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting. -- James Cromwell
Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine. -- Paul Cookson
It takes five years to design a new car in this country. Heck, we won World War II in four years. -- Ross Perot

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