Long-lasting car engines

 

How far is 100,000 miles?
To reach that distance, you could drive from San Francisco to New York City and back about 17 times.
You could drive from my home in Utah to Buenos Aires, Argentina over 11 times.
If there were a road around the entire earth at the equator, you could drive the whole thing 4 times. AROUND THE WORLD.
If you could average 70 mph, you would need 1,428 solid hours of driving, or almost 9 months of 40-hours-per-week driving, to cover 100,000 miles.
It's a LONG distance, for sure.
But we routinely see our vehicles achieve this milestone (usually over several years, not several months), and more. My friend Clayton has a 2000 Dodge Dakota pickup that just passed 300,000 miles! It's astonishing to me that mankind in our day can make a machine that, with appropriate maintenance, can function SO WELL for SO LONG, achieving levels of performance (speed, horsepower, efficiency) that are more and more impressive as each year goes by.
I #GiveThanks for the wonders of technology represented by our vehicles. They enable us to do so much, with such ease. I can travel in a single day a distance that would have taken my pioneer ancestors a month, and I do it with fresh cool air and pleasant music. What a gift!

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