“- Gustav Shank: Couldn't you have picked a better car?
- Himmel Shank: I thought you'd like it. It's German.
- Gustav Shank: Haven't you ever heard of BMW, idiot?”

Jeffrey Jones - Gustav Shank
Edoardo Ballerini - Himmel Shank

“- Assistant Mechanic: Never heard of no one so shit-all stupid as you drivin' off that road. You musta got manure for your brains.
- Clark Griswold: Yeah, well, I'm from out of town.”
John Diehl - Assistant Mechanic
Chevy Chase - Clark Griswold

“- Peter Highman: How have you made it this far? How have you not run yourself over in a car?
- Ethan Tremblay: I've done that.”
Robert Downey Jr. - Peter Highman
Zach Galifianakis - Ethan Tremblay

“Automobiles are a useless nuisance. Never amount to anything but a nuisance and they had no business to be invented.”
Tim Holt - George Minafer

“I'm not sure George is wrong about automobiles. With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization. May be that they won't add to the beauty of the world or the life of the men's souls, I'm not sure. But automobiles have come and almost all outwards things will be different because of what they bring.”
Joseph Cotten - Eugene Morgan