Automobile

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Automotive

An automobile or motor car is a wheel motor vehicle for transporting passenger, which also carries its own engine or motor. Most definitions of the term specify that automobiles are designed to run primarily on roads, to have seating for one to eight people, to typically have four wheels, and to be constructed principally for the transport of people rather than goods. However, the term is far from precise because there are many types of vehicles that do similar tasks. Automobile comes via the... full article at wikipedia

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The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.	Alex Cox	Repo Man	Miller
The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.	Marshall McLuhan
A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.	Jean Cocteau
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.	J. G. Ballard
The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.	Daniel J. Boorstin
We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.	Will Rogers
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
What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.	Virginia Woolf
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.	E. B. White
Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.	P. J. O'Rourke
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