I was trying to cut them a little slack. A friend of mine bought a used Fiat Spider 40 years ago. He needed basic transportation. I warned him that the Fiat would be a maintenance nightmare. We chased down one problem after another with it. By the time that he bought it they had been in production for ten years, but they still hadn’t ironed out all the issues with it.
I owned a FIAT X1/9 back in the early 80’s.
Spent more time UNDER IT than IN IT!.....................