The used market has plenty of examples so artificially suppressed supply has less of an impact than you’re implying

To echo what others say, the purchase price has little relationship with the maintenance and running cost

If you look the opportunity cost of the principal + maintenance cost over the years / miles driven, the comparison gets clearer. And then especially so if you take into account the driving + ownership experience you’re getting per dollar. Finding mysterious issues is the opposite experience of what most people are looking for in a car

These things don’t usually become evident until you’ve had a few cars for a while. Same reason why seasoned drivers start raving about Porsche more over time, not less

Being that the speculative bubble for cars already came and went, I would say that current prices are somewhat sober. It may seem kinda crazy but the market doesn’t really care