Exactly.
I like my car. It’s reliable, comfortable, and the interior is flexible — a station wagon with a pop-up seat in the rear, seat-belted for a total of 8 people (7 comfortably), and with both sets of back seats folded down, there’s room to stick a sofa in the back (which I have had occasion to do). And the AC is nice and cold. It’s the notion that this sort of car is “crappy”, and similar notions about houses, colleges, and weddings (one of the biggest financial sinkholes ever invented) that gets people started on the road to financial trouble.