Materialisum at it's best. You need something that makes you feel more important when you go to dinner I guess. My point is that you should make who you are. If you need a car or any other status symbol to accomplish this for you, that says a lot.
BUT, if you are truely refined to the point where you are looking for what the BMW or the like can give you....that's a different story all together.
Like it or not, the SRT4 is like an CSVT in many ways. It's based on a commuter car, but built for a performance crowd.