His car - which I drive, and my car - which he drives!!
We started off with one car which went in his name as we needed a loan and I wasn’t earning when we bought it. It’s a seven seater Toyota Isis.
Then the next year he needed a car for work, (Subaru R2 - a little “keisha” light chassis cheap to run and insure thing) and as we bought it for cash, I said I wanted the paperwork in my name (in Japan everything is in one person’s name only including our land and house, so I feel a bit insecure sometimes as pretty much all of it is in his name, even though actually I’m paying the mortgage at the moment. We have a strong marriage or we’d still be renting!!)
I have the big one because I do more hauling of kids and things. He has the little one because he lives two and a half hours drive away and it makes the gas and road tolls cheaper. But if there’s a blizzard or he has to take work colleagues somewhere, we swap for a week or till the next time he comes home.
His car is manual and mine is automatic, so I usually spend a day bunny-hopping down the road before I remember it again!
Four vehicles in our names, although we did give one to our daughter - we keep it in our names for insurance purposes, plus there was no sense in re-titling it, especially since she lives here.
Anyway, the Crossfire is my husband’s car. No one else wants to drive it, so that works.
The Scion is mine, and both my daughter and son-in-law want it, but they only get to use it rarely.
The Aerostar is our hauling-stuff vehicle, but son-in-law drives it, since his car died and would have cost a ludicrous amount to resusitate. The Aerostar was mine - most if its 210K miles are mine.
The Beetle is daughter’s car. When she decides to replace it, whatever she gets will be in her name.
I drive the Lincoln (which I lurve, lurve, lurve).
MizPullin drives her Camry (which I hate).
PullinSon drives his Corolla
ExtraTeen* drives her Honda Accord
PullinDaughter isn’t old enough to drive, but is already shopping for her ride
…and our ginormous pickup truck is used by whoever needs to tow something.
*Neighbors threw away a perfectly good teenager last year. We took her in and she lives with us now. She’s our newest daughter.
Three drivers, four cars (our son left his car here when he moved to the big city.)
My daughter drives the 15-year old minivan. It’s pretty much exclusively hers now. I drive the subcompact. My wife drives my son’s car because it gets better mileage than the minivan. We reserve the newer minivan for long trips or hauling stuff.
But my car is a stick, and my daughter doesn’t drive a stick. So when her car is in the shop, she drives my son’s car, my wife drives my car and I (who actually drives the least) fall back on the minivan.
When we go out as a family, we may take the old minivan, the newer minivan or my son’s car. Mostly it depends on which one is in the driveway at the time.
She has a F150 truck that she drives. She is a truck person and says she will never own a car.
My American Muscle Car has it’s own building/man cave. Sometimes I just go out there to sit and stare at it. It is always kept clean and I’m a bit of a nut about it. Family says I have a problem. But I don’t keep it stored, I drive it as my main vehicle.
We do trade when I need the truck for some hauling or fishing or something like that. If we are doing something together the vehicle used depends upon who decides to drive. She would never drive my car while I am in it, and vice versa.
I have a car. All I can really tell you about it is that it’s a dark green Dodge of some sort. My husband has a silver car, I have no idea what company made it. He also has a truck, because he has a farm. The truck is red. AND he has an RV, which he and his brother are fiddling with, and HAVE been fiddling with for a couple of years now.
Usually I will only drive my car, as it’s the most comfortable one for me. My husband finds his car more comfortable for him. Occasionally, I’ll drive his car if I need to, and he’ll take mine out for a drive to make sure it’s working OK. I will ride in his car if we’re going someplace together, I don’t like him driving my car, he adjusts the mirrors all funny. I can’t get into the truck or the RV.
When our daughter comes home for a visit, she is given the spare key ring, which has the house keys as well as the vehicle keys, so she can drive whatever vehicle her little heart desires. She’s an adult, she still has friends and old boyfriends in this area, and she enjoys getting out of the house. When I visit my parents, they still treat me like a small child in some ways, and I don’t want to do this with my own daughter.
Though I am not married myself, my parents have always designated the cars as his and hers but never really stuck to it. For example, right now my dad is driving my mom’s car as his is slightly broken and I am home to chauffeur my mom anywhere she needs to go. With my sister and her husband though, they stick to their respective cars.
We have always had our own cars…until now. My husband has a small blue car that smells funny, like all his previous cars, which is one reason we have always had our own cars. I recently became the proud owner of a 1994 Jeep Cherokee 4wd. Somehow, in his mind, it is “ours.” In spite of the fact I told him he needed to get a car he like better than his, because the jeep is MINE. In spite of the fact I mounted Hello Kitty on the dash. In spite of the fact that I have chrome Hello Kitty insignias on both the side and rear of the car AND in spite of the fact I have front and rear tag surrounds of…you guessed it, Hello Kitty. He is NOT getting the hint.
I may have to paint it pink.
He’s been driving it and making it a mess, it is so obvious, my neighbors child got in my car and said “Has Tom been driving this?”
So, contrary to popular belief, WE have our OWN cars and he can stay the hell out of 1994 Jeep Cherokee Hello Kitty Edition (Bright Red).
Two cars, a Ranger pickup (his) and a top end Camry (mine). He drives his truck to work and most of his weekend errands, and we use it for camping. I drive my car to work and for most of my errands, and we use my car when we go to dinner and/or have passengers, stuff like that. But we have no qualms about using each other’s vehicle when necessary. I work further away from home than he does, so the better gas milage of the Camry is a bonus for me, but if it were reversed, we’d probably change up. I used to drive a 4X4 Ranger and a full size Blazer, so largish vehicles aren’t a problem for me.
We have four drivers and four cars, and it’s rare for anyone to drive anything but their assigned vehicle.
Mine - BMW coupe, manual transmission. I love it and the husband hates it (yay!) and I won’t let the kids touch it.
Husband - Acura SUV. I hate the big boat and he doesn’t like anyone else in it because they might get it dirty. We do use it for family vacations and hauling big stuff, though.
Daughter - Honda Civic coupe, manual transmission. Too slow for me, too small for her dad, and son can’t drive a stick.
Son - Honda Civic sedan, automatic. Boring car but it gets him and his friends around.
My parents always had a “dad” and “mom” car. Mom’s was the new car, dad had the old car. When mom got a new car, her old car became dad’s car, and his old one was traded in.
My friend’s parent’s used to have the same set up, but recently they just seem to take whatever car is there. My friend prefers the old Grand Cherokee with 230,000 miles, as does her dad, because the Envoy drives like a minivan. The mom drives the Envoy to work, because it has working air conditioning, and is generally more reliable.
To make it more confusing, if I’m visiting my friend’s house, sometimes we all switch cars for whatever reason. I’ve driven the Envoy, while her mom drove my Jeep.
When my Jeep was in the shop, I drove their Grand Cherokee. I also drive my sister’s Dodge on occasion.
However, my Jeep is my Jeep. No one (other than my friend’s mom) has driven it.
We currently have one car in my household. Until this morning, we had two.
I had my truck (which I just sold for $225) and my sister and her boyfriend have their truck.
Anyone could drive my truck. I really didn’t care about it and I trust them both anyway.
They both drive their truck although when they’re together, he usually drives. They work the same shift at the same company so one vehicle isn’t a problem for them.
Before my accident last year, I was the only one who drove my nice brand new Hyundai Accent because my sister can’t drive a stick and her boyfriend was rusty and didn’t want to risk hurting my car. When I had my car, my sister also had her own car and her boyfriend had his truck (which he sold to me after my accident and which even then, we all drove).
Now, I have a bicycle which I can’t ride. Until I am able to ride it again, anyone else can use it.
Two cars, we do very little driving, and have a driveway that’s only 1 car wide so there’s no his/hers action, you take the one that’s not blocked in.
We do, however, have them designated as Summer and Winter cars. The SUV is the Winter car, since it’s better in the snow, though we don’t get all that much. The SUV, however has no A/C, and I’m not going to pony up thousands of dollars for a questionable fix on a 10+ year old, relatively beatup car. The other car is an '84 Mercedes Sedan, it has functioning A/C and a sunroof, but is probably not so hot in the snow, so it’s our Summer car.
We do a little bit of “drive the one that’s easy to get out” in the winter, but not much. It’s too much work. If I drive her car, I have to readjust everything (she’s 5’1" and I’m 6’4", so I can’t even get in until I’ve readjusted the seat), and then swap all of the sunglasses, iPods, and miscellaneous stuff between the two cars.
For family jaunts we take his because it is more comfortable and has a better stereo. We sometimes opt for mine on very long trips because it gets a little bit better mileage.
There aren’t too many times when my car would serve him better but when it comes up that I need to pick up or deliver something large we switch without it being any sort of big deal.
I just thought about my aunt and uncle. They always had 2 cars, both sedans, and treated them as virtually interchangable. A big difference though is that they had a long narrow driveway. Whoever left first in the morning took the car in the back. My husband and I park side by side…
Two person household, two cars. And one motorbike and a moped and a bunch of bicycles.
My daily driver is a company car, a 2007 VW Passat. It was assigned to me and I don’t care much for it. I’m entitled to my “own pick” of a company car, but since we’re in a reorganisation, all car decisions are on hold and I’m stuck with the current Passat. My wife almost never drives it, as it’s meant for business use only (the rare short drive to the store excepted).
Our other car is a 1995 Alfa Romeo Spider, which is our “has to do everything” car. We use it for shopping, for holidays, for drives to friends and family, et cetera. My wife does drive it at times, but she’s yet to receive her Dutch drivers license. She’s only been here 5 years.
(The Dutch version of the DMV likes money, and has a weird ass law stating your “home country” license expires after you’ve lived here for 6 months, and you then need a Dutch one. Including a full-on driver’s test, as if you were 18 again and have zero experience. She hasn’t been that bothered yet.)
The motorbike is for fun trips on the weekends, and I’m the only rider as my wife doesn’t have a motorbike license. The moped is hers, but it only has 300 km’s on the clock, as she dropped it in the rain after having it for only 2 months or so. She’s been afraid of it since. Anyone wanna by a bright red Piaggio?
