When driving to work or on a business trip, try to count how many times you have to use the clutch, gearbox and brakes. After all, while the car is in good order, it rarely occurs to anyone to pay attention to how certain controls are used. Of course, changing, say, prematurely worn brake pads is not difficult. But replacing brake drums or discs will require some effort. And it is not at all easy to deal with worn clutch or gearbox parts.
Of course, nothing in a car lasts forever. But if, for example, you use the clutch too often, maneuvering in dense city traffic, and do not take your foot off the pedal, even standing at a traffic light, the clutch disc will not serve the required 80 thousand km of mileage, of course. Its early replacement will not save the situation: the next step is the premature failure of the clutch "basket" plates and the clutch release bearing, which simply "dries out" from thoughtless use of the transmission and breaks the "basket"...
The same can be said about the gearbox. The most "patient" of the domestic ones - the "Zhiguli" gearbox - is capable of "driving" 150 and 200 thousand km without repairs; gearboxes of Audi cars are somewhat more capable of serving. But reckless control of the gearbox, accompanied by jerks of the lever from one position to another, long before the term puts the synchronizers out of order. And although this is not the most difficult, it is a repair. Therefore, patient drivers, when changing gears, use the "on three counts" technique, that is, as if saying to themselves "one, two, three" when moving the lever from one position to another.
However, "sportsmen" who prefer to "take off straight away" have to pay not only with a failing steering system and prematurely worn tires. With this style of driving, a huge load falls on the drive parts - constant velocity joints, bearings, clutch disc, not to mention the engine. There is no dispute that modern cars equipped with powerful engines can drive like sports cars for some time. But they are not designed for "sports" loads, unless, of course, we are talking about a "one-off" car.
What to do if you still need to "tear" the engine, getting out on a muddy road or skidding in the sand or on ice? Experienced drivers know what to do in such cases: they create conditions for the car that increase its cross-country ability. It is enough to reduce the pressure in the tires of the drive wheels to one atmosphere to significantly improve the grip of the wheels on the surface of the dirt road. And in a front-wheel drive car, which surpasses a classic car in cross-country ability, difficult sections of dirt roads are overcome by moving in reverse.