Day 64 of 365: More Parts and Wholes

After a long hiatus, we're continuing now with analysis 5 of 7 in the "seven analyses" of the Middle Way. Looking at a car, or anything else for that matter, can we say that there is a reality dependent upon the parts? If there were such a reality, it would appear as something else, singular, lasting, and independent, when the parts were assembled. This doesn't seem to happen. Adding further suspicion to this - If there were a reality that depended up on the parts, the parts couldn't change because that particular reality, say "carness", was lasting. Parts break all the time...