Haha, reminded me of this post by @oldmustang.
I think there is an interesting common denominator here, but maybe not one of the obvious ones (price, ”luxury”). Both of these are products that people with the means buy to reward themselves. They are the culmination of a journey that may have spanned decades or the fulfilment of a dream that may have been born in their youth.
Although it is easy to get speed blind a quarter of a million is an awful lot of money for most people (hey, even $10k is a lot of money for most people!) and that will buy you, among other things, a very nice DAC, a very nice car or a holiday home (at least I think there are some places where that is still true). Assuming one’s financial position means one needs to choose, which one chooses and why is an intensely personal decision which I would argue goes way deeper than ”perceived value” or ”taste”. IMO there is little logic here and certainly no objective pecking order.
For some, the ultimate ”reward” will be a Varèse (or a Lina or whatever) and for some it will be two Boxster GTS 4.0s.
And for some very lucky ones it will be all of the above.