Hi, I have a conundrum.
We currently have 2 cars...one is a 2009 Prius that is paid off. The other is a 2010 Mazda5 that we owe about $6k on. Long story short, I think I finally have my husband convinced that we don't need a second car, although we may well need one in a couple of years. The problem is that the Prius is a little too cramped,especially for my husband but the 5 gets dreadful gas mileage (maybe 20 mpg in town, which is where 90% of our driving is) and has higher running costs generally.
We are considering trading both cars in on a used PriusV.
We have 2 kids in car seats and my husband is quite big/tall. We have grandparents who fly in to visit every 6 months or so (the extra seats in the 5 are needed then) and other family we visit also about every 6 months in a bigger city 6 hours away so we bring back stuff from Ikea etc. then (we are slowly redoing our kitchen). Otherwise we are just running short trips in town that I can't use a bike for (usually means kids and stuff combined, or going to and from work when we have 2 adults and a kid). We haven't actually used the Mazda in a couple months.
How terrible is this idea? Should we just sell the prius or 5 (this is a bit tricky, the PriusV option is because we can't agree on which car to keep) I'd love to hear any other suggestions...