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by BoredPuffin 1410 days ago
Seeing your comment being downvoted is the most American thing I've witnessed on the internet today

> What are some other well engineered long-lasting products?

How dare you not mention Nokia!?

Jokes aside, if you restrict it to "long-lasting" - Japanese woodworking, Toyota Hilux, Honda Super Cub... in fact a lot of post ww2 era Japanese manufacturing.

If you include high fault tolerance as well - a lot of USSR engineering is beautiful in this aspect. I recall they design a propeller with 8 blades because they expected 4 of them will crack in early stage of usage. Same apply to screw enclosures.