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Two things you can do to extend a car's life is to reduce the load on the engine and reduce the engine's revs per mile. Since most of the load on the engine at highway speed is from wind drag, you can reduce this load by aeromodding to reduce the car's Cd. Taller gearing will reduce the revs per mile. Since brake linings are a consumable (you use a little bit of the lining each time you hit the brakes), by using the hypermiling technique of "driving without brakes" to reduce the use of the brakes, you can get more miles between brake jobs (I typically get 140,000 miles on the front disc brakes and 300,000 miles on the rear drums, almost 600,000 on the car).
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