I have a super fancy new car that is quite expensive. It has all the gizmos on your list and then some. It has a relatively small incremental benefit. I love t

I have a super fancy new car that is quite expensive. It has all the gizmos on your list and then some. It has a relatively small incremental benefit. I love the thing, sure, but it really isn't 'worth it' at all, it's purely an emotional thing of having a whizzy whee rocket sled, and I can actually definitely afford it. If I had, say, the median net worth in the US, I'd be driving a 1998 Civic. That's what I did, until I didn't. It's just like, not that big a deal. Most people, myself included, are probably doing this stuff for status. Having a battleaxe car is a specific type of signaling in and of itself (in fact this is one of the things I miss the most about my old car...)