I'm reminded of my old Engineering boss and his wife's car.
After our company finally took off and the stock was climbing nicely, he decided to buy his wife a Mercedes S550 sedan. We had both attended a meeting off-site to which he drove his wife's car that day, and he offered me a ride back to our building to show off his car to a known "car guy" (which he definitely was not).
As we're riding along, the car phone rings (this was mid-1990's so you had no dash screen to announce the calls). We're both looking all around the dash to answer the call but after 6 or 7 rings the call ended and we still didn't know how to answer it. (we later figured out that the car phone had a couple of dedicated buttons right on the steering wheel for ease of use).
Later, when we had arrived at our building, he wanted to show me the V-12 engine in his wife's new car, but neither of us could figure out how to get the hood open. And we were supposed to be a pair of the top storage engineers in the country.
Maybe that's the difference between a car owner and a car driver..... Or maybe not!
Lots of co-workers bought cars as status symbols - Most of the Senior Staff drove Cadillac STS cars because the founder drove a Cadillac Sedan deVille. Once he moved to a top end Lexus, all of a sudden we saw lots of Audis and BMWs and a few "sports cars" show up in the Corporate lot. All of them were under warranty so the owners never had to work on them, just drive them.