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I guess I never addressed your question.
The beamers and supercars have handling that the Prius will never touch. It's the reason I own a Del Sol instead of a CRX, it has handling comparable or better than most BMW cars. I sacrifice total car height lose ground clearance and gain handling. I also gain lots of MPG and cheaper parts but those are commonalities with the CRX and so are out of that decision.
People take one aspect of a car and thats the most important(handling, horsepower, economy, maintenance costs, sports-car feel are the list for me) and then they decide between the candidates based on the rest of the characteristics.
The Beamer crowd prefers handling, power, FE, sports-car, luxury but focus heavily on the first two. That also said what you ideally like over what you do is different. I don't drive an NSX because it has high twenties on a good day for FE, and replacing parts on it is very difficult(rear-midengine) and I can't currently afford a third car at the moment for just fun.
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