The Car Executive of the Century was an international award given to the most influential car executive of the 20th century. The election process was overseen by the Global Automotive Elections Foundation.
The winner, Ferdinand Piëch, was announced at an awards gala on December 18, 1999 in Las Vegas.
Famous quotes containing the words car and/or executive:
“The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.”
—Karl Lagerfeld (b. 1938)
“To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God’s hand, his brain as God’s brain, his purpose as God’s purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)