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POLL: does your household have more cars than drivers?

rh71

rh71

No Lifer
Personally we have 2 cars (both mine) but my wife also drives if needed (hasn't in years since she works in the city). I look at people's houses and some are stacked with 4 cars - some actually have an entire family in them (kids driving too) so I don't really question it.

But then there's the house with 2 drivers but they have 4 cars (minivan one of them), plus 1 non-working (though in good condition) vehicle [this is not exactly MTV cribs territory]. Even with 1 extra car I feel it's sometimes a waste with the need for insurance(!), annual inspection, registration, and general upkeep. It literally sits unused for 5 straight days sometimes so I worry about the battery. Everytime I go out I feel like I should move the idle car a bit but then would rather drive the other. It is more hassle than not keeping a car that I don't favor in my opinion. Doing the math, it's actually more money to keep 2 cars gassed up even when just using 1 at a time.

How do people with more cars than drivers deal? Don't people always have a favorite they'd just rather drive everytime making the others a waste of money to keep around? I do have a purpose for the other one, but that purpose comes into play maybe 10% of the time I need to go somewhere.
 
I don't live at home anymore, but as a family we do. An extra car comes in handy, it's when there are multiple spares that I'd probably deem it a bit excessive.

Me: 2008 VW GTI
Dad: 2007 BMW 550i
Mom: 2004 Honda Pilot
Sister: 2000 Honda Accord
??: 1999 Saab 9-5 Wagon

Both of my grandparents passed away recently, leaving us the Saab and the Accord. At the same time, my sister got her license, so with the timing she get her own car. The Saab really isn't worth much anymore (maybe 4k). My parents don't need the money, so there's no point in selling it and the extra $60 in registering it each year isn't going to break the bank.

Sure, there is the added insurance cost, but it comes in handy at times to have it. My dad can't really use his car if he wants to run to home depot to buy anything and this way he doesn't have to wait for my mother to switch cars with him if he wants to buy something dirty on a whim. It now also serves as his winter car on snowy days, so when his winter tires wore out after last season he didn't need to buy a set this year.
 
4 cars and a motorcycle and two drivers. My wife is stay at home mom and she rarely drives. So we have 3 cars and a bike sitting at home most of the time. I have to take the cargo van for work so I don't really have a choice on the vehicle to drive. I pay little over $1,000/ year for tag registrations and about $2,500/ year for insurance on the vehicles.

For me the biggest problem is the garage space and wife. I would like to pick up 5th car but parking becomes an issue and the wife might make me sleep in the garage with the cars. Still the market is very tempting and if I come across a steal of a deal, another car might show up parked in the driveway whether the wife likes it or not. 🙂
 
For just me:

3 cars, 1 motorcycle, potentially a 2nd motorcycle soon. It's all choices and trade-offs. I would rather have the vehicles than have the money that would be freed up by not having them.

ZV
 
Kindof..
My mom has her license but will almost never drive and force us to drive her (3 cars) (3 licensed drivers including my mother) one car we are trying to sell
 
Originally posted by: rh71
does your household have more cars than drivers?
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Not any more but at one point my wife and I owned four vehicles. All four were registered, insured, mechanically sound and driven frequently.
 
Yes,
Me and the wife, 1 year old can't drive yet. Three in the driveway.
2002 camaro Z28 "the toy"
2008 Ford Escame "Soccer mom mobile"
2009 Chrysler Town and Country "work truckster"
 
nope, we just added a second car to the household. I don't foresee going more than 2 til the kid is old enough to drive. And he's only 4 🙂
 
Yep.

Me and my wife have...

1994 Mazda B4000
2001 Corvette
2004 CTS


battery went dead in the Corvetet from lack of driving. So I charged it and have been driving at least once a week. I also try and drive the truck once every other week.
 
We have three cars right now between the two of us. Originally, it was her 4Runner and my CTS, but recently she got the Altima back from someone that she co-signed with but couldn't make the payments. She is currently trying to decide what to do with the Altima and 4Runner as we only want 2 cars.
 
Ah what the heck. 4 people and the vehicles are as follows:

196X VW Beetle
197X VW Beetle
1996 Mazda Miata (for sale)
2000 Chevy Camaro SS (for sale)
2002 Toyota Camry
2005 VW Jetta
2005 Mitsu Lancer Evo VIII
2006 Chevrolet Silverado

199X Suzuki Katana
2006 Honda Goldwing
 
I have 2 for just me. One a miata and the other is an old 89 dodge caravan. I paid $800 for the van 7 years ago to use as a winter beater/hauler of crap and its great at its role. Insurance almost pays me to drive it and its worthless so its not like its costing me much a year and its super handy.
 
Me:
1976 Dodge RAM pickup - used for hauling firewood
1997 Pontiac Grand AM GT - daily driver
2003 Jeep Wrangler - off-road toy/ summer vehicle

Wife:
2008 Subaru Legacy SE - daily driver/ road trip vehicle
 
I have 4 for myself. Each has their own purpose / use, although I may consider selling one in the near future as the purposes are sort of starting to overlap.
 
I have been strongly resisting this actually. Right now, we have my pile of crap neon that rots in the driveway and our 06 elantra. We carpool and functionally, we really only use one car. The other one is occasionally used for when one of us has an appointment or if the driveway turns to ice and I can't get the Elantra out. (Pretty rare, like 2 times a year)

But all that sitting isn't improving the Neon any. I hate driving it since the radio is broken and it has an oil burning smell sometimes. It has developed a rusty back wheel that drags when I first drive it. Its just not reliable and I'm loath to spend any money fixing it up since its worth nothing and I'm planning to get rid of it in a year or two when we have kids since we will need two cars then.

Part of me wants a truck. A POS truck would be a better second vehicle RIGHT now then the POS neon. I could use it to take things to the dump, get gravel, mulch, furniture, stick a plow on, etc and the gas mileage wouldn't matter since I'd only have to drive it to work no more then once a week.

But once kids come, the truck is useless. I'm not going to drive an old shitty unreliable truck to work every single day when it also uses a ton of gas. And my wife isn't going to load kids into the fucking jump seats to go to the grocery store with it either.

I don't want three vehicles because I already feel like I have to many fucking machines to maintain. Liability insurance on an old truck is only like $20/mo. Registration is like $100/yr or something. But a blown transmission means either a white trash eyesore on my lawn or at least $1500 in repair bills.
 
Right now we have two. My wife has her Malibu Maxx and I've got a small van/wagon thingy (Mazda5).

But at some point I'd like to pick up a...pick up. I'd be a 3rd vehicle that'd carry liability only so insurance wouldn't be more than a couple hundred a year and plates in IL are only $78 a year.

We've got a LOT of home improvement stuff coming up, and in 3 years will be building and doing even more. Plus it's easier to toss bikes or kayaks into a truck bed than it is to load them onto a bike rack. And when winter comes around 4WD is nice if the roads haven't been plowed. And then you still have a backup vehicle in case one of your primary ones has to be serviced for any period of time or a family member needs to borrow one.

 
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