Yes, we should indeed be proud that we can still do it over from scratch with new technology, since the past fifty years implied pretty strongly that we actually couldn't anymore, and certainly I don't see new car companies springing up anywhere else besides China.

What's more, by that clever little formulation of yours, you can cynically dismiss so many things of value. Why be proud of anything anyone does here unless you've never seen anything like it before on the face of this earth, right?