Guys want a 500 horsepower car. I'd rather have one horsepower - in a horse. That's macho. You go to pick up your date and you show up on a horse.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, 'Nah, what's wrong with a horse?' That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.
A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
People ask how hard it can be sitting down for work during a 500-mile race? Well, without power steering or power brakes, holding onto 650 horses in a car that has nearly 3,000 pounds of downforce and can produce up to 4Gs vertically and laterally can be extremely tough - even sitting down.
The guys that drive Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Bentley GTs, it's because they want to flaunt the fancy car and get the girls and stuff.
If a horse doesn't want to do something, you're not going to make him do it. They're incredibly powerful animals.
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
I love horsepower.