Yes, absolutely. A lot of Jeep owners will tell you that pretty much everything on them can be fixed with a $10 socket set from wal mart.
I love my Jeep because when my dog and I crawl into the thing covered in mud, I can just hose it out the next day. There are holes in the floor that lets the water drain out when it gets rained in, and I know that there are very, very few places on the planet that it won't take me if I ask it nice enough.
There is definitely something to be said about simplicity in engineering. I feel more connected to my Jeep because I can see everything working. There is no abstraction level, it's all just mechanical.
It's the same feeling I got when I first started using linux. I could see everything working which, for my brain, was awesome.
I love my Jeep because when my dog and I crawl into the thing covered in mud, I can just hose it out the next day. There are holes in the floor that lets the water drain out when it gets rained in, and I know that there are very, very few places on the planet that it won't take me if I ask it nice enough.
There is definitely something to be said about simplicity in engineering. I feel more connected to my Jeep because I can see everything working. There is no abstraction level, it's all just mechanical.
It's the same feeling I got when I first started using linux. I could see everything working which, for my brain, was awesome.