I just wanted to share this excellent video about Japanese (Toyota..?) cars and how, if you treat the car with respect, it will last forever. Seems AI voiced, yet many concepts are very sound. Handle your car like a bonsai tree. Genius.
Some of those points aren't very relevant... Way too much hyperbole. But the main point is caring for your stuff, as well as caring for your land and country is a cultural thing and in the US we're a bunch of slobs living in squalor under a failed government. When I first started working on lots of people's Prius 7 years ago I was convinced I was going to restore them back to near new... But several of those cars I accomplished that on it all these years later are even more trashed than when I first started working on it because people don't care about themselves and their surroundings, they'd rather tune it out and not bother doing all the extra work. Meanwhile in Japan, even their garbage trucks are clean and shiny. When was the last time you saw a clean and shiny garbage truck in the US? So grateful I grew up with a dad who was obsessed with cleaning his car and fixing anything that was wrong right away. Got 200K miles on my Prius that I bought with 100K miles on it 12 years ago and still no issues. That's not good luck causing that either!
