Blue whales have a heart the size of a small car.
The Car is now an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete.
The Car is a danger to the modern city in terms of its contribution to air pollution, to huge road building investments which damage the city, and in the drying up of public transportation which increases difficulty in access to certain parts of the city.
The Car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.
Japan is the largest automobile producer in the world
The Car is so pervasive in the US that our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Los Angeles has about 3x more automobiles than people.
The Car is a king on a vinyl bucket-seat throne, changing direction with the turn of a wheel, changing the climate with a flick of the button, changing the music with the switch of a dial.
Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949
The Car is responsible for having dissolved the living tissue of the city. Its appetite for space is absolutely insatiable... moving and parked, it devours urban land, leaving the buildings as mere islands of habitable space in a sea of dangerous and ugly traffic.
The Car is responsible for the disintegration of communication, manners, and city life. Nothing could alter national character and morality more thoroughly than could the most absolute of tyrants.