Cars don't have souls. Only people. Cars are hunks of metal, some put together better than others. I would rate the 250 as middling at best.
how is soul quantified?
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Cars can be art forms, no different than music, painting, architecture, etc. Does a car experience the afterlife after getting crushed? Absolutely not. But, the designer of a car can make something extraordinary, thereby transferring some human "soul" to an object. Most would agree that other forms of art have a soul, even though they are nothing more than inanimate objects as well.
My personal GX has been modified as an expression of my personality - transferred to that object - making it unique. Some cars are so well done - so much of the designer's "soul" transferred to them - they don't need to be modified. And that's definitely not a 250.
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Ha. You must be fun at parties.
Goodness. I guess I've never thought about a car being an expression of one's personality. Don't get me wrong, though, I love cars and buy them way too often. Last I counted, I've owned 51 different cars over the last 43 years. Everything from Ford to Ferrari and a bunch in between.
Perhaps it's the analogous to having been with lots of different women, but never having been in love?
I'm at Car #6 and have been driving for 24 years. That includes overlaps as well, and some that I've kept for just over a decade. Three of those were driven to their deaths, I still have one of them, and only 2 were sold in good condition. I tend to stick with them for the long term and develop bonds with them thru driving them, working on and modifying them, and having them be a part of key life events (vacations, taking newborns home from the hospital, etc).
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Cars don’t have souls but the people driving them do. The experience of driving a great car or truck, and for land cruisers especially the life experiences that come with driving the truck (connection to nature, quality time with family, exploration of parts unknown, adventure to the limits, all with comfort and peace of mind), enrich the soul. A vehicle not capable of those things, or not capable of doing them for as long or without attendant maintenance headaches, does not.
Einstein pointed out that the only thing that exists is “The Field,” the field of energy to which everyone and everything is connected. No one can show me a human’s soul any ore than someone can show me a machine’s soul. That doesn’t dampen my belief that people, machines, music, etc, can have souls. People have mentioned that a part of them is transmitted into a vehicle as they customized it into exactly their vision of what it ought to be. In years gone by when craftsmen pounded fenders into shape by hand and machinists carved metal into beautiful forms so that they would perform functions as well as they possibly could, it was probably much easier to see/feel/hear a vehicle’s soul than it is to find it in today’s mass produced vehicles.
My own opinion…
The mechanical workings of cars made them feel alive. The sounds, vibrations, and the forces felt from using the vehicle. Their eccentricities in working or not working properly at times.
As vehicles have been refined we have lost those inputs to our senses on day to day use.
So to gain back that feeling of soul, I think, you eventually achieve that by creating memories from using it.
The mechanical workings of cars made them feel alive. The sounds, vibrations, and the forces felt from using the vehicle. Their eccentricities in working or not working properly at times.
As vehicles have been refined we have lost those inputs to our senses on day to day use.
So to gain back that feeling of soul, I think, you eventually achieve that by creating memories from using it.
Wondering if the amount of soul is inversely proportional to the amount of automatic doo-dads and computer operated gizmos. I'm pretty sure that my FJ55 has plenty of soul, but it does lack a brain. Everything is manual, even the choke. It is modified a bit as we've been together 39 years, I figured out early on that she has a soul AND a personality...how much? A handful.
End of story.
I suppose this thing had some soul. Enjoyed it for a time.
Wowza!
