After I joined Toyota, there was a period when I drove more than 200 cars in one year - different types, other companies' cars. I want to be able to tell what distinguishes one car from the next.


Akio Toyoda

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it'...
AKIO TOYODA
Almost 90 per cent reconditioned cars used inside Bangladesh are imported from Japanese Toyota Compa...
ABDUL HAQUE
I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars t...
AKIO TOYODA
I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.
ANTONIO SABATO, JR.
I've never been big on cars. When I first got to Hollywood, I bought a used car from Avis. I dro...
VINCE VAUGHN
I like to hang on to cars. I'm not one of these guys that goes flipping cars all the time. If I ...
BILL ENGVALL
Starting in the 1970s, American cars started to lose market share to foreign cars. It was clear what...
IRA GLASS
I grew up in Texas, and people love their American-made muscle cars there. I grew up around people w...
AMBER HEARD
I'm as passionate as any car owner or car collector that has one car or 300 cars.
BILL GOLDBERG
My very first car was a grey Alfa Romeo Alfasud, which I got in 1987. But, in our family, all cars w...
ALLAN MCNISH
Everyone was trying to win the race on the restarts. I took a measured approach and was cautious out...
CHRISTIAN FITTIPALDI
I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental ...
TAYLOR SWIFT
I call them and they move it, but a couple days later, other people park another car. As soon as one...
ENRIQUE LOPEZ
In the future, the cars you see from Toyota will be 100 percent hybrid.
KAZUO OKAMOTO
I remember my father's last race very clearly when he drove at Hockenheim in front of 100,000 pe...
NICO ROSBERG
What I enjoy doing more than anything is, I have my little antique car collection, and when the weat...
ALAN JACKSON
I have a large collection of town cars because when I was just a snipe in the gutter, growing up in ...
CLIVE CUSSLER
We want customers to be able to come, see, feel that these are different cars.
KATSUAKI WATANABE
He said he has one that has to do with cars.
CHRIS ROSE
I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is drivin...
KEVIN O'LEARY
I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is drivin...
KEVIN O'LEARY
I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.
AKIO TOYODA
The Lotus is a couple of years newer than the Williams was, and as the pace of development in F1 car...
NELSON PIQUET
There are no drivers like Formula One drivers. They are engineers, in a way. They are driving manual...
ASIF KAPADIA
You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.
MARIO ANDRETTI
The Wood Brothers' car and ours are the only one-car teams in the top 25 (in points), and I'm very c...
ROBBY GORDON
We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I...
DARYL HANNAH
I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'
ADRIANE LENOX
I think there could be more experimentation if car companies didn't have to make such huge volum...
CHARLES PELLY
My dad used to design cars, boats and vans, ... I would sit next to him from the time I was 3 and co...
CHIP FOOSE
I think the car count will be higher. It gives more guys a chance to get their cars ready who weren'...
MARK WERTZ
I like being able to race against the other challengers with their cars.
ANTHONY COLLINS
I wanted to race cars. I didn't like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right ...
GEORGE LUCAS
I think everybody in town lost their car. There was no insurance coverage for flood damage to cars a...
FRANK MERRILL
I'm not trying to be new school and I'm not old school - I'm classic. There's a lot ...
LL COOL J
What if cars drove by the power of colors? Like if you would fuel your car on red. Or purple.
MATT MALDRE
HOW CAN I TELL YOU "I LOVE YOU AFTER HEARING CARS LOVE SHELL?"
JERRY RUBIN
I drove 3,500 miles this summer on our family holiday, we drove across 10 countries. I have driven a...
GEOFF HOON
I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way ...
MITCH HEDBERG
I never bothered with cars. I was probably one of the few kids in school who didn't run around w...
ANGUS YOUNG
It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
CARLOS GHOSN
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you k...
HELEN KELLER
It's nice to see our old cars here. There's no one better to give some feedback on the car than Andy...
CHRIS DYSON
These are the two most powerful and challenging cars to drive in the world. Growing up in England, i...
KATHERINE LEGGE
I'm a crazy car guy. I've got an airplane hangar full of cars.
PAUL WALKER
As for Lexus, he says, ''I'm getting involved with their new hybrid [car] . . . and I was told that ...
PAUL MCCARTNEY
I could hear screaming and hollering. It sounded like it was coming from one of the cars.
CATHY LORE
I want to be out there and I don't want to hear all this stuff ... the noise of trucks and cars.
JUSTIN KAMP
The problem is Twitter is designing the metaphorical equivalent of a Toyota Prius. A car for the mas...
ROBERT SCOBLE
I always do like seeing other people dance in their cars. It's one of the things that makes me h...
ARIEL GORE
I hate it driving more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost...
RACHAEL LEIGH
When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars.
ADAM FERRARA
There was a time we laughed at the old guys up on the hill. The ones who graduated a couple of years...
TUCKER ELLIOT
There were many years when I was hand-to-mouth and didn't know how I was gonna make rent. I'...
BEAU WILLIMON
You need very good reliability and a car that has strength. Many of us are in the same boat this yea...
ANDY WALLACE
What you're talking about is two very different operations. I don't want there to be hint of a sugge...
TED KOPPEL
Fortunately for me, I'm married to an amazing woman - Nancy Lasseter - who is wise enough not to...
JOHN LASSETER
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the wo...
RICHARD HAMMOND
I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove ...
IRWIN WINKLER
One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or wh...
FOREST WITCRAFT
I lived in Beverly Hills for years. I always had a line, 'I hate the rich.' From what I witn...
ANDREW DICE CLAY
I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn ...
FLIP WILSON
I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It's a good thing, a...
ELON MUSK
People get very thoughtful when they are in cars. I no longer care for cars. I don't collect the...
MICK JAGGER
I don't think it's a car for the U.S. market. Those cars look great in Europe, but put them on road ...
GEORGE MAGLIANO
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT
I just like a good story. I want the story to be good and I want the character to be different than ...
GARRET DILLAHUNT
One of my favorite places I've visited is Havana, Cuba. On my way home from Costa Rica, I did a ...
MEGALYN ECHIKUNWOKE
The car was fast. We passed a lot of cars when we needed to. I'm just overwhelmed.
SCOTT DIXON
I love going one-on-one with someone. That's what I do. I've never lost. It's a whole di...
KOBE BRYANT
I know I'm not supposed to like muscle cars, but I like muscle cars.
JOE BIDEN
You even drove your own car down if you wanted to. I drove down. I was single and I had a car down t...
DICK HOAK
We want to drive our cars and we want to do so one car per person. We have not changed our habits de...
MITCH PALLY
Learning how to be successful from an unsuccessful person, is like buying a car from a car sales per...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN
Am I a car aficionado? No: for me, cars have always been just for transport. I didn't even know ...
MICHAEL CAINE
All I could really think was how much I wanted to sleep. How much I wanted to be in a different worl...
JENNIFER BROWN
A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, ...
FOREST E. WITCRAFT
It takes a while to figure a car out, to get a complete understanding of what's going on with a car....
MARK LAMOREAUX
The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.'
'Th...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY
We're getting reports of 200 to 400 stranded cars on I-25 between Denver and Colorado Springs.
JIM CARPENTER
I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in term...
RATAN TATA
I t needs to be done. I t does destroy your car . I t's a hazard all around for bicycles, motorcycle...
KEVIN MOORE
There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS
I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
LAPO ELKANN
I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR.
When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred...
GABE NEWELL
When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day lo...
KYLE MACLACHLAN
I used to think that, by the 21st century, cars would run on electricity rather than gasoline and wo...
PAT CADIGAN
No one was more distraught than Ambrose after the game. I actually talked to him more than any playe...
CHARLIE WEIS
I'm a big fan of old, classic American musclecars like a Shelby GT or the '69 Dodge Charger,...
RICKY WHITTLE
My grandfather on one side was trained as a cabinetmaker but eventually worked as a coachbuilder and...
RICHARD HAMMOND
There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, t...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.
LUDACRIS
My first car was a 1976 Toyota Corolla Liftback in red, like the one in 'The Blues Brothers.'...
RICHARD HAMMOND
What was very alarming to us is when we get our end-of-the-year statistics in. Although we are down ...
PETE SMITH
I love you more than designer lables, expensive houses, and fast cars. What can I say? I am seriousl...
ZEPPELIN HARLOW ROSE
Each time I get into one of these cars I feel more at ease and the tension drops a few notches.
BORIS SAID
Each time I get into one of these cars I feel more at ease and the tension drops a few notches,
BORIS SAID
I drove from L.A. to the bottom of Florida on Vespas, and I drove cross country multiple times in a ...
ARMIE HAMMER
There is this idea that it's very different from the French point of view to work in America bla...
VINCENT CASSEL

More Akio Toyoda

With respect to sticking accelerator pedals, we failed to connect the dots between problems in Europ...
AKIO TOYODA
The hundreds of thousands of men and women at Toyota operations worldwide - including the 172,000 te...
AKIO TOYODA
People look at me and think I am an expert in the automobile industry, and I'm not.
AKIO TOYODA
For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by pla...
AKIO TOYODA
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the ...
AKIO TOYODA
It is in Toyota's DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated.
AKIO TOYODA
When consumers purchase a Toyota, they are not simply purchasing a car, truck or van. They are placi...
AKIO TOYODA
I respect my father as a father, but I also respect him as an honorable chairman.
AKIO TOYODA
I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it'...
AKIO TOYODA
I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.
AKIO TOYODA
I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect. I, more than anyone, wish for our customers' cars t...
AKIO TOYODA
Everyone says Toyota is the best company in the world, but the customer doesn't care about the w...
AKIO TOYODA
There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term. Money is shifting to th...
AKIO YOSHINO
The U.S. economy won't be able to avoid a slowdown given the damage from Hurricane Katrina on top of...
AKIO YOSHINO
There's no cloud in the sky right now. Japan's economy is poised for a reacceleration. There's no qu...
AKIO YOSHINO
The U.S. economy won't be able to avoid a slowdown given the damage from Hurricane Katrina on top of...
AKIO YOSHINO
There's no cloud in the sky right now, ... Japan's economy is poised for a reacceleration. There's n...
AKIO YOSHINO
There is a growing view that insurers have had their run for the short term, ... Money is shifting t...
AKIO YOSHINO
Earnings growth may also slow for technology companies in the region.
AKIO YOSHINO
The existing home sales data revived fears over the prospect of the US economy, especially about the...
AKIO YOSHINO
Japan's economy demonstrates quite a healthy picture,
AKIO YOSHINO
Japanese auto makers have had to grab market share from GM or Ford, but that's coming to a limit and...
AKIO YOSHINO
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITA
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exer...
AKIO MORITA
Curiosity is the key to creativity.
AKIO MORITA
Japan's labor market is showing a remarkable improvement recently and companies are eager to make ne...
AKIO MAKABE
Given pressure from the government and the ruling party, the Bank of Japan will be forced to maintai...
AKIO MAKABE
Investors are awaiting the outcome of the central bank's policy-setting meeting tomorrow. Caution be...
AKIO YOSHINO
I am bullish on corporate earnings given firm demand for goods.
AKIO YOSHINO
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.
AKIO MORITA
We will try to create conditions where persons could come together in a spirit of teamwork, and exer...
AKIO MORITA