I completely agree that there’s a fair bit of luck involved in any specific person’s experience with each specific car. This article tries to use data that predicts the average outcome one should expect.

In principle, you could toss an honest coin 100 times and get “heads” each and every one of those times. The probability for that happening is low (about 1 in a million), but not zero. However, that’s not the outcome I’d bet on.

Similarly, you could have a new car that gives you nothing but trouble for years, or an ancient one that runs almost as well today as it did decades ago. However, on average, you should not bet on either of those outcomes.