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There was a car mechanic who lived next to where my dad grew up in rural Sweden. He spent enormous amounts of time on the cars he got in to fix and took out automatic locks and all electric wiring to the point of the car being basically invincible to time and very simple to repair again. Some cars he never managed to finish fixing and they were simply left forever in his front yard... My grandma drives a 25 y o Suzuki Alto that is basically this car. It even has the old school non powered steering. Runs great still, has no issues since she only drives in summer.

There is really something to be said for old mechanics and simple electric solutions.

These days _everything_ has an embedded microcontroller and a touchscreen. I'm more on the luddite edge myself...

If anyone is interested I can try to dig up an interview with the car mech on youtube (in swedish) :)