DH could get a 'nice car' on his company scheme.
Why, you would, boogles my mind though in terms of the financials. It doesn't even work that well in terms of taxation for him.
He looked at it for three or four years before deciding it was a mugs game, which tied you to a company. Thankfully since he didn't get one, it was easier for him to change jobs when problems started emerging there. He's paid better at his new place.
He was relieved and he's been massively put off the company car handcuffs. Instead we're saving for a new car of his choosing which we will own and not have the spectre of debt having over us (which in theory could affect remortgaging in future too). It's theoretically an asset, which although it depreciates, you still have something tangible rather than just throwing money at thin air. Indeed because the second hand market has been so inflated, the amount his current car has depreciated is a lot less than we factored. Its functional and gets him from a to b.
Every so often he wistfully dreams of having the flash badge with all the gadgets. Then looks at the numbers and goes 'fuck that, I could do x, y and z for that'. It makes no sense except for ego or status.
DH is reinforced by the experience of someone else. A friend of his at his last place is single and bought a fancy car. He's stuck with it, it's woeful fuel efficiency (at one point last year it got to the point he was avoiding going into the office). He loves his car but he'd never get something similar again.