Dishwasher/TV example is not a good one, if the TV is a Beko £250 and also compared is a 6K Viera, or £20 goodmans speakers compared with 12k Dali speakers. You can't compared such vastly differing items, here in lies the folly of looking at this in anything other than magazine selling terms. Your ref to Clarkson having power? His comments never stopped the Boxster selling in millions or the random family looking for a Toyota at the local dealer did it? There power is way over rated when it comes to influencing people spending there own money...
PS the CS and CSS is to be celebrated, but in context...