>My car maintenance costs since 2018 has been a gallon of windshield wiper fluid and new tires

Just to be clear, you keep buying stupid and poorly designed cars to save a couple hundred dollars on oil changes? Which are the ONLY maintenance item you need to do on any brand new ICE from purchase to about 100k miles?

You repeatedly purchase brand new, luxury priced, "new car premium" priced cars to save a few hundred dollars?

Uhhh.... What?

My ICE car's entire maintenance budget since I purchased it 5 years ago has been about $300 worth of oil changes, once per year, and Europeans claim that's way too often.