Bmw Quotations

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.

It was an unbelievable experience! The brakes, the g-forces and the power of the engine are beyond description. Thanks to BMW and WilliamsF1 for giving me this chance to test. The test team looked after me brilliantly and I learnt plenty.

The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It's like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

Recorded engine sounds, however, are a deliberate deception. They're like going to a concert and listening to a recording. On the other hand, I wouldn't mind buying a BMW recording and installing it in my '96 Jeep Cherokee.

Only in the last week, South Carolina announced that it is seeking to become the U. S. center for hydrogen fuel cells, and BMW revealed that it will power some of its high-end model cars with hydrogen.

In fact, I'd just like to own something. Everyone thinks I'm glamorous, rich and famous but all I've got is some recording equipment and a battered old BMW.

I didn't get my first car until I was 22. It was a BMW 1602 and now I've got it back I'm waiting to restore it.

My first job was in sixth grade, sweeping the clay tennis courts at the yacht club near my house, which I was not a member of. Always had to pay my own rent. But I don't really have any concept of how money works. I don't know how much things cost. Like a BMW. Or a quart of milk. It's embarrassing.

I know that BMW is now a sponsor of the USOC - of the United States Olympic Committee - so they offer the use of their aerodynamic speed-tunnel for testing and such for the athletes, which is a great advantage. But to be honest with you, I'd rather have a free car!

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.

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

A BMW can't take you as far as a diploma.

I'm glad to see that BMW is bringing an electric car to market. That's cool.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

I'm not a big splurger of money, but my guilty pleasures do lie within BMWs. I get roped in.

I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.

I have heard what the French journalists have said and they need a new job. It is false information that they have disseminated everywhere. Renault want to stay in F1 but only under certain conditions, like the other major manufacturers Mercedes-Benz, Honda, BMW and Toyota. They all want to see the same conditions.

When we saw BMW coming in, we thought this would be the perfect corporate sponsor.

The paid-off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.

Porsche and BMW drivers are arrogant.

Spirits are perceived as affordable luxury. People are more careful with their spending today. Maybe they can't buy a $40,000 BMW but they're willing to buy a good $60 to $70 bottle of Scotch. You don't get that kind of trading-up feeling with beer.

The presence of this facility in Barbados is a major breakthrough for the Caribbean and Barbados in particular, as it not only means better service to BMW owners, but will also mean foreign exchange for this island as all the region's mechanics will be trained in Barbados.

Mercedes and BMW took advantage of the Lexus launch. They knew Toyota was launching the Lexus and prepared to fight.

Mercedes-Benz and BMW are associated with quality engines, so it was a smart thing to do.

Voting Tory will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3.

I love money, and I love movement. I like what it has let me do for my family. I have paid off my mum and dad's mortgage, I've bought them two BMWs, they can have anything they want. I am buying a fleet of cars for myself. I have unemployed my sisters, they don't need to work, don't need to worry about a thing.

It is interesting that the black BMW is the preferred car of so many assholes.

Toyota, Honda and BMW continue to do well at the retail level. GM and Ford need to stop their retail share deterioration, and GM hopes their March madness campaign will help do that.

I don't have anything against commercials, and I really like BMWs.

I respect BMW for not interfering in these projects. They're just trying to support short films with their brand, which I think is great.

We have created well over 100 units of instruction and posted them on the BMW web site. They are available to anybody who wants to use it. You do not have to go and reinvent the wheel.

President Obama, by the way, is, I think, making his first presidential European trip. And while he's there in Europe, he plans to fire the CEO's of BMW and Volkswagen.

For average working folks, America was becoming a puzzle. Who was buying all these two-hundred-dollar copper saucepans, anyway? And how was everyone paying for these BMWs? Were people shrewd or just stupefyingly irresponsible?

BMW has lost something like $6 billion since they acquired Rover, and they are getting rid of something that has been losing $2 million a day and been a specific problem in terms of the drag on management time.

BMW is a bigger company than Porsche, and Rover is a smaller company than Volkswagen, ... and even then it diverted too many strategic resources from BMW.

BMW is trying to spread some good news for a change. Everything has been so bad for the last year that it is desperate.

BMW reported a positive surprise to fourth quarter profit numbers today along with a proposal for a three percent increase in the dividend and notice that the board is to seek authorization for a 10 percent share buyback.

BMW will now be able to turn its attention back to its core brands.

The sweet spot is 25 cents a minute. That will attract more calls. But BMW might want to reach you even if your bid is $1 or more.

We had a guy who bought a BMW for his wife on a Tuesday. She went out on Friday night, came back at 3 a.m., and acted funny all weekend. He took the car back to BMW and had the seat taken apart and sent to us for testing - and he caught her.

We had a strong feeling about Jordan after meeting him last year at Road Atlanta. Obviously BMW feels he will be a top competitor and represent their brand well, as noted by their selection of him as a BMW Junior Driver for the 2006 season. As a team, it is our responsibility to help develop his skills to their fullest potential and put him in a position to excel both on and off the track.

Railings will probably head towards a race like The BMW if he comes up OK in the autumn.

We are excited about entering the luxury automobile segment in the rapidly growing Latvian market as we have experienced 86% growth in cars sold in our existing business last year. It is an honor to represent BMW, one of the leading luxury automotive brands in the world. We believe that by combining the execution capabilities of BM Auto and Baltic Motors' management with the recognized BMW brand, BM Auto is well positioned to capitalize on the Latvian automotive market.

A lot of these sound like they aren't arcane. But if you compare a Porsche to a BMW and ask the engineer what actually makes a car better, it's that same thing. It's the gearing, the clutches. It's attention to a lot of details,

Say, 'I'm interested in buying a two-year-old BMW 325I in the next two months. What do you have coming off lease?' ... You can make some sort of preliminary deal over the phone.

We assume that BMW Group will remain on this path of growth in 2006.

This is good news because while BMW has been an industry leader in diesel and hydrogen technology, it hasn't been a factor in hybrids. No one knows for sure which technology is going to win for the future, but BMW can't afford not to look at other choices to learn which is the most economic and cost-efficient.

If you look at BMW and Mercedes and Ferrari and Lexus, altogether they aren't even 5 percent of the world's car output,

The Mini is built in an adjunct to the main plant so BMW doesn't have to keep the rest open.

I had a good finish at the BMW Asian Open and am planning to go to Europe after this. So I am keen on doing well here.

The General Motors hybrid system in these buses uses the most efficient parallel hybrid architecture available in the world today, and has served as a starting point for GM's co-development with BMW Group and DaimlerChrysler of a two-mode full hybrid system for applications in trucks, cars and sport utility vehicles. GM will launch the two-mode full hybrid in 2007 in the Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon.

The figures were a positive surprise. One should not forget, however, that Mercedes Car Group has suffered a sharp decline in European new car registrations (in January) in comparison to its main rivals BMW and Audi.

As a driver, it's fantastic. To come back into the American Le Mans Series with the BMW M3 is the best thing you can do in racing. I had so much success with Tom and PTG. Then to reincarnate the relationship with Yokohama is a tremendous positive. This thing is going to be a winning program.

It's just going to take some time. The BMW is not a mainstream car. But once we all have these new radios, we're all going to wonder why we didn't do this before.

We expect the BMW Group to remain on growth course in the financial year 2006. Our aim is to increase sales volume yet again and once again set a new record.

There may be little practical difference between a Ford Mondeo and a BMW three series, but in terms of perceptions of who you are and what you are, then they are worlds apart.

I feel bad for Ron and Paul; they were doing so well. For myself, it was a heated battle with the #21 BMW and we couldn't get by. I think we had the faster car, though. You hate to lose when the win could have been yours but we gained some ground in points and it's a big help towards the championship. We're also proving how competitive this car is - Jan and Paul won the last race - and we've had two other fourth place finishes so far. Not bad for starting mid-season.

I do not know another multi-national car company that would suffer the losses BMW has and at the same time

If you were to buy a [BMW] 6-series, I recommend you select reverse when leaving friends’ houses so they don’t see its backside.

You can't run the economy on BMWs alone. If the average person is in a pickle, how do you have a healthy economy?

Germany is a fascinating role model. The Germans have maintained their manufacturing edge despite being a high-tax, high-regulation economy. Why? Because the government really set about ensuring that it maintained funding for technical training, technical advancements and programs. It made a concerted effort to retain high-end, complex manufacturing -- the kind of BMW model, if you will. And they've done that so successfully that Germany, which has a quarter of America's population, exports more than America does.

I pulled into the Grand Union parking lot and drove to the end of the mall where the bank was located. I parked at a safe distance from other cars, exited the BMW, and set the alarm. You want me to stay with the car in case someone's riding around with a bomb in his backseat looking for a place to put it?" Lula asked. Not necessary. Ranger says the car has sensors." Ranger give you a car with bomb sensors? The head of the CIA don't even have a car with bomb sensors. I hear they give him a stick with a mirror on the end of it.

Within a few years the name 'Maria Sharapova' will be a brand as universally recognized as Calvin Klein, BMW and Rolex.

Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel or a private jet.

You know, when everybody starts to live from their heart, and go for what they want, they don't go for the same things. That's the beauty of this. We don't all want BMWs. We don't all want the same person. We don't all want the same experiences. We don't all want the same clothing. We don't all want ..... fill in the blank

They're going to come to me and they're going to say numbers for three years and I'm going to use my division and if it sounds good when I hear it, then I'll take it. But I'm not going to say I'll take less (than the max) . . . Put it this way. I won't take a BMW from somebody when I know I can get a Maybach from somewhere else.

I've never heard anything Wynton [Marsalis] played sound like it meant anything at all. Wynton has no voice and no presence. His music sounds like a talented high-school trumpet player to me... he's jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

Wynton Marsalis is jazzy the same way someone who drives a BMW is sporty.

You can stick a BMW badge on a dead cat - and people would still buy it.

I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

My first car was in 2006 when I got on my first TV show - a BMW 328i2 four-door sedan in slate grey. That was a great day, that was.

Maybe it's your obligation to use your celebrity for more than just your new BMW. I use mine to make people smile.

Does it really matter if I choose the bus over a BMW, and generic over Gucci? Because the car, the wardrobe, the zip code-those are just nouns, things that are fun to have around, sure, but in the end, they have nothing to do with the real me. Nothing to do with who I really am.

You can now get a Mercedes or BMW for the price of a Taurus,