Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

I think one of the following has to be true:

• My car was a terrible example of the type
  
• Precision (and BSG before them) made up the ailments and I'm a fool for believing them
  
• Most people would look at the lists of jobs needing doing and would select 30% of them and live with the rest
  
  

I'm hoping it's the latter, but prepared to accept it may be any/all of those.