80% Angel; 20% devil. ibid. Diesel
How does it feel? To be on the other side of a Wanted poster? Fast Five 2011 starring Vin Diesel & Paul Walker & Jordana Brewster & Tyrese Gibson & Chris Bridges & Matt Schulze & Sung Kang & Dwayne Johnson et al, director Justin Lin, gangsta
We’re gonna use this and do one last job. We’re gonna take all of Reyes' money. Every dime of it. And disappear. For ever. ibid. Diesel
We’ve got a job. ibid. Diesel
I smell skanks. The Fast and the Furious 2001 starring Vin Diesel & Paul Walker & Michelle Rodriguez & Jordana Brewster & Rick Yune & Chad Lindberg & Johnny Strong & Ted Levine et al, director Rob Cohen, bad bird
I’ll die before I go back. ibid. Vin Diesel
I didn’t do it for the money. I did it for the cars. Gone in 60 Seconds 2000 starring Nicolas Cage & Angelina Jolie & Giovanni Ribisi & Delroy Lindo & Will Patton & Christopher Ecclestone & Robert Duvall & Timothy Olyphant & Vinnie James et al, director Dominic Sena, Cage
What do you think is more exciting: having sex or stealing cars? ibid. Jolie to Cage
And if you’re not too busy you can wipe the bugs off the windshield. Mr Majestyk 1974 starring Charles Bronson & Al Lettieri & Linda Cristal & Lee Purcell & Paul Koslo & Taylor Lacher & Frank Maxwell & Alejandro Rey & Jordan Rhodes et al, director Richard Fleischer, Bronson to garage bloke opening scene
To Jack, for shooting Harry. Speed 1994 starring Keanu Reeves & Dennis Hopper & Sandra Bullock & Joe Morton & Jeff Daniels & Alan Ruck & Glenn Plummer & Richard Lineback & Beth Grant & Hawthorne James & Carlos Carrasco et al, director Jan de Bont, toast in bar
We have a slight situation on the bus here. ibid. Reeves
Relationships based on extreme circumstances never work out. Speed II 1997 starring Sandra Bullock & Willem Dafoe & Jason Patric & Temuera Morrison & Brian McCardie & Mike Hagerty & Colleen Camp & Bo Svenson et al, director Jan de Bont, Bullock’s driving test
See you at the line, Tommy. 200 MPH 2011 starring Jaz Martin & AnnaMaria DeMara & Hennely Jimenez & Darren Thomas & Paul Logan & Zedrick Restauro & Jared Kahn et al, director Cole McKay, black bloke
Face front. And keep driving. The Hitch-Hiker 1953 starring Edmond O'Brien & Frank Lovejoy & William Talman & Jose Torvay & Wendell Niles & Natividad Vacio et al, director Ida Lupino, hitch-hiker
It’s cruising night, man, on South Beach. Smoke n Lightnin’ 1995 starring Christopher Atkins & Kristoffer Ryan Winters & Sabryn Genet & Catherine Nagan & Rand McClain & Alfie Wise & Michael Linstroth et al, director Mike Kirton, dude to dude
Me and me mates – we used to go scrumping for cars. Red Dwarf s4e3: Justice, Lister, BBC 1991
Kirk: Are you afraid of cars?
Not at all, Captain. It’s your driving that alarms me. Star Trek s2e17: A Piece of the Action
It’s a mint condition 1969 Camaro. And yes, you mean a lot more to me. Star Trek: Voyager s4e20: Vis a Vis, Tom to B’Elanna
Henry Ford had created a new kind of car ... The assembly line completely changed manufacturing for ever. The Men Who Built America VIII: The New Machine, History 2012
Detroit 1913: Henry Ford isn’t just making a revolutionary car, he making it in a revolutionary way: the production line ... America’s love affair with the car had begun. America: The Story of the US e8: Boom, History 2010
Americans have always loved their cars. Now the whole country has fallen in love with the automobile. 1955: Americans are spending sixty-five billion dollars on cars, buying eight million of them every twelve months. America: The Story of the US e11: Superpower
The beast: this $300,000 limousine is flown to wherever the president is visiting. It’s Good to Be the President, History 2011
They are some of the most advanced and heavily protected vehicles ever built operated by technicians prepared for the worst. America’s Book of Secrets s1e7: Presidential Transports, History 2012
Don’t ask a man to drink and drive. UK road safety slogan from 1964
Clunk, click, every trip. UK road safety campaign from 1971
If you so much as touch my car, I’ll kill you. The Young Ones: Cash ***** Vyvyan to Neil, BBC 1984
In 1941 the manufacturer Henry Ford designed an automobile that was built almost entirely with vegetable products. Especially cannabis and its derivatives. Marijuana True History
I traded it. No, for a microphone. The Blues Brothers 1980 starring John Belushi & Dan Aykroyd & Steve Cropper & Donald Duck Dunn & Murphy Dunne & Willie Hall & Matt Murphy & Carrie Fisher & Ray Charles & John Candy & Aretha Franklin & Twiggy & James Brown & Henry Gibson et al, director John Landis Elwood to Jake
It is the new blues-mobile or what? ibid.
Richard Trevithick ... He was a natural talent. A natural engineer. A problem solver. But even so no-one at the time imagined this was the man who would build the first high-pressure steam-engine, the first car, and the world’s first railway locomotive. Mark Williams on the Rails: Cornish Steam Giant, Discovery 2004
The reason I moved to California the first time was to build the Cobra. I thought it was stupid to have a 1918 taxicab engine in what Europeans like to call a performance car when a little American V-8 could do the job better. Carroll Shelby
Automobiles have always been part of my life, and I’m sure they always will be. What is it about them that moves me? The sound of a great engine, the unity and uniqueness of an automobile’s engineering and coachwork, the history of the company and the car, and, of course, the sheer beauty of the thing. Edward Herrmann
Don’t fuck with another man’s vehicle – it’s against the rules. Pulp Fiction 1994 ***** starring Uma Thurman & John Travolta & Samuel L Jackson & Harvey Keitel & Tim Roth & Amanda Plummer & Maria de Medeiros & Ving Rhames & Eric Stoltz & Rosanna Arquette & Bruce Willis & Christopher Walken et al, director Quentin Tarantino, Vincent
Blunt-nosed mechanical beetles that might mingle their gas breath with the free air of pines and waterfalls. John Muir
[Terry-Thomas as rozzer giving evidence from dock with help of notebook] I then asked the defendant if he was the owner of the vehicle. To which the defendant replied, ‘Yes, I mean no, not exactly, I borrowed it.’ I then asked him if this was with permission of the owner. To which he replied: ‘Well no at least I’m sure he would have given it if I’d asked him as he is my brother in [turns page] law. Or rather he isn’t my brother in law but he will be. I mean what I am trying to explain is that I was in a hurry, and there wasn’t time to ask him. And at the moment I didn’t give a damn whether he minded or not. No I don’t mean that exactly.’
Magistrate: Will you repeat that? Happy is the Bride 1957 starring Ian Carmichael & Janette Scott & Cecil Parker & Terry-Thomas & Joyce Grenfell & Eric Barker & Edith Sharpe & Elvi Hale & Miles Malleson & Irene Handl & John le Mesurier et al, director Ray Boulting
A Toronto teenager crashed into six cars as she completed the parking manoeuvre of her 2001 driving test. Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! 2006
An English woman took 300 driving lessons and 48 tests before finally passing in 1987. ibid.
Part of his [Gordon Brown] plans to solve both the carbon and the credit crunch, Britain will create lots and lots of jobs by manufacturing and subsidising the use of electric cars ... Doesn’t his advisers know that they will all depend on plugging into the same electric grid? ... We are being lied to the whole time. Professor David Bellamy, Challenging Orthodoxy
So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me, ‘Can you give me a lift?’ I said, ‘Sure, you look great, the world’s your oyster, go for it.’ Tommy Cooper