The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it.
But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes.
Other families bought automobiles; we had a horse-headed hitching post in front of our house and drove horses.
A limit on the automobile population of the United States would be the best of news for our cities. The end of automania would save open spaces, encourage wiser land use, and contribute greatly to ending suburban sprawl.
The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile.
Worry is like racing the engine of an automobile without letting in the clutch.
DIY, cricket, automobile repair. I could study it for a lifetime and not produce a word on the carburettor.
The US will always be an enormous automobile market. You're lost without a car there.
Something wonderful begins to happen with the simple realization that life, like an automobile, is driven from the inside out, not the other way around. As you focus more on becoming more peaceful with where you are, rather than focusing on where you would rather be, you begin to find peace right now, in the present. Then, as you move around, try new things, and meet new people, you carry that sense of inner peace with you. It's absolutely true that, "Wherever you go, there you are.
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.
And what do automobile companies do? They see something that's taking off and they want to mimic it, don't they?
What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
The power of branding, particularly when it comes to automobiles, is overwhelming. You go back to the seventies and eighties with the General Motor situation I was describing? Literally, folks, the Camaro and Firebird were identical cars but you'd so have the Firebird buyers, the Pontiacs, "No way I'm I buying that Camaro!" " It's the same car. " "Nooooo, it is not. That is a Chevy and mine is a Pontiac. "
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.
You know, I really hate Romans, but I have to say their descendants make one fine automobile. (Kyrian)
I thought that automobiles were going to have mufflers and go fast and airplanes were going to fly fast.
The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.
Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.
