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My putting arguments from an explicitly European perspective always gets me in trouble here. But here I go.

There may (MAY) be some Socalization [sic] going on here. I.e. Americans think this is what people do in America, therefore they must be like this everywhere.

Americans might keep expecting you to give them a car as a Christmas present. Europeans would never be so materialistic as to want or expect one. Have at it.

The overall TCO of a nice German car is easily $1m. So most people don't understand that 15m is only 15 cars. And I mean only. And you can't buy anything else on that hypothetical basis.

Is my partner into my or my money? Maybe I DON'T know the answer to that. But I'm past caring.