Good thoughts regarding the cars. I have a full shop at the house and do most all of my car maintenance. But I am in a "phase" now driving a $1300 '02 Taurus Wagon. DWs car is a 2012 VW CC with almost 140K miles on it. I just did a 4 hour intake manifold replacement on it. And my '08 truck has at least 3-4 things wrong with it. So fact is I am just tired of working on cars (except for my antique ones) and dealing with broken stuff. DW wants an Audi which I think are overpriced (but very nice cars) but she has talked about it forever, she still works, so we will find a way to make it happen if she really wants it. I'm still not sure what I would buy either, keep my truck (which I plow our driveway with in the winters), etc. etc. But as I said originally, I am trying to plan for replacing 2 of the cars 2 years from now, not now, and just find a way to pay cash for them when the time comes.