They trot with vigor with two months, then they disintegrate and leave the Model T Ford right in the middle of the road.

I tell you honestly, there is no modern car that can match the Model T Ford construction-wise. Don't simply contrast the gleam of the bodywork. Beauty is not food. The metal from which modern cars are made - models like Peugeots, Toyotas, Canters, even Volvos and Mercedes Benzes - fall to pieces as easily as paper soaked in rain. But not the Model T Ford, oh no! Its metal is the kind that is said to be able to drill holes in other cars. I'd rather keep this old model. A stone hardened by age is never washed away by the rains. A borrowed necklace may cause one to lose one's own. The new models come from Japan, Germany, France, America. They trot with vigor with two months, then they disintegrate and leave the Model T Ford right in the middle of the road.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Devil on the cross (1980. English version 1982), 29-30