Continued refuah.
Listen, if you want to waste (or spend if you prefer) your money on a Jaguar, that’s between you and the Ribiono Shel Olam. I promise you, I’m not jealous in the least.
But don’t fool yourself into thinking it’s about reliability and value. For that, you could have bought a Honda or a Toyota. In fact, if you put 5k miles on it per year, you could have bought a Chevy for the best value.
Sure, for a luxury car, $3500 per is cheap. But that’s not at all the lesson that your Oma was trying to teach you.