Say I take your analogy seriously. Someone is offering you the BMW for free, but it has different control placement (cruise control is in a different place, cl

Say I take your analogy seriously. Someone is offering you the BMW for free, but it has different control placement (cruise control is in a different place, climate controls work totally differently, and so forth), and requires more expensive gas. Oh, and you have no money to pay for the gas, and you do a _lot_ of driving and don't want the distraction of learning the new controls on the road. And for your current usage, the Civic works fine. Oh, and the Civic has better reliability than the BMW. See http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Honda_Civic/2011/Reliability/ http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Honda_Civic... vs http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/BMW_3-Series/Reliability/ http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/BMW_3-Serie... I can totally understand someone wanting to stick with the Civic instead. Of course I speak as someone who bought a Civic, precisely because it's a pretty darned good car. ;)