I bought my wife (her phrasing and we paid cash) a very nice blue BMW 335i optioned up gently with a 6-speed manual. Lovely and a very fast car.
Your opinions about my knowledge of cars appears to have no effect on reality. Like you. My obligations in buying a car, vis a vis fuel economy, are to buy something which, if everyone did the same, would meet our collective environmental needs at the time. I realize that is a complicated sentence for stupid people to parse but work on it. Maybe one day you'll get it.