It has to be said - being esconsed in leather, with the feel of real wood in one's hands, and the sound of the Harman Kardon filling the room, who wants to drive fast?
And - in response to the OP - we've had our P38 for two years now. After fixing most of the inherited problems, the only things to have gone wrong in the time we've had it are the MAF, crankshaft sensor, and EAS compressor (seal). These were all relatively cheap and easy to fix.
More money has been spent per year on repairing our 6 year old VW Transporter (fortunately mostly under warranty) than on the P38, even though we do about the same number of miles per year in each. And now the VW is starting to rust in several places, and every time it rains I get a half inch deep puddle in the passenger step.