With two growing daughters–a three-year-old and an 18-month-old–my wife and I knew we needed to abandon the small, sporty cars we’ve been driving and trade up to a bigger vehicle. In deciding what to buy, we had to work around each others’ varying preferences. My wife does not like SUVs because of their poor gas mileage and their sheer size. Personally, I believe (as I have written about before) that one’s money should go into appreciating assets, not depreciating ones. So I see spending a lot of money on a car as frittering away money best directed elsewhere, especially...
