Insurance and maintenance/repairs, as well as the lifestyle implications -- who is the driver trying to impress? When you take a woman out in a beemer, you feel more obligated to that premium gasoline and carwash, that dinner in a tablecloth restaurant rather than at a diner, and that expensive bottle of wine. Driving a Honda or Toyota makes the driver feel more settled down and thrifty.
Sure thing, AW. Which one would *you* want to date. The one with the Beemer or the one in that old Honda Civic?
Be honest now... ;-)