Buying a car for SWMBO

This is the hardest thing that has ever been done by man.

What do you want, something sportier then my mini but comfortable. When do you want to test drive cars? Never...

This is how men buy PT cruisers for women to torment them for the next three years.

This is when you just wait for the phone call that they're at the dealer and they bought something, and cringe at whatever it is. There's just no winning that game. I got lucky when mine spontaniously changed her mind from a Murano to a Cooper S.

Get her a Cayman S and if she hates it... you drive it. You will not hate it. At all.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Get her a Cayman S and if she hates it... you drive it. You will not hate it. At all.

Have you seen my garage I have plenty of cars the last thing I need is to do that. She will eat me alive if I did that, again....

Hand her the checkbook and let her pick her own dang car.

I have tried... tried and failed to pick a car for SWMBO. I have thankfully been able to steer her towards cars I don't mind inheriting down the road, since that is home we do things.

I stayed out of my ex's car buying decisions, other than to do a mechanical checkover, in fact I stay out of all my family's car decisions except for the aforementioned mechanical advice. I'll be damned if I will put my head on the chopping block like that, picking someone else's car for them.

I did let the ex know that if she picked something German she was 100% on her own, I do NOT mess with those things. At all. Life is just too short.

Went through this several years ago. My wife wanted "a green one". That was the sum total of her input, so I found an S10 Blazer in a nice emerald green. She was happy for a few years.

My wife drives an 02 Prius and likes it. She also likes my Saturn. She basically likes anything that has A/C and isn't huge.

I hope this does not change.

If you asked Mini for that, they'd take down your number and have BMW call you.

Sounds like a 1 series.

Mike wrote: If you asked Mini for that, they'd take down your number and have BMW call you. Sounds like a 1 series.

I was just about to lease her a M235i but she has decided its a bit to big. I swear I am just going to get her another beetle convertible on a lease and be done with it.

Condolences. You have unfortunately taken on a task that cannot be performed in a satisfactory manner.

Can't you just divert a river through some stables or something?

I just gave mine a list of what I thought she would like and we test drove them at carmax. From there, she would narrow it down to a couple and I went shopping. Worked great both times.

We lucked out with the second one. She wanted a convertible. Didn't like the mustang and wanted something 4 seats. So I thought used 3 series right away. Well, just that morning a 17K miles 4 year old 328I convertible got traded in. We snatched that up very quickly for $24.6K She is in love :)

It has been done, 2014 Denim blue 1.8T Beetle with a few options on a lease for 36 months. Came with warranty and service during the entire lease and 1.49% money factor, ~4K off sticker on cap and another 1K because its a turbo.

Actually a really fun little car, but being a dude driving down the coast with the top down and some classic rock blaring out the stereo will get you some looks.

Not the actual car, parked next to the R8 in the garage it looks gigantic though.

I just went through this with my wife. Needed something that was 4 doors had enough room for us, the coming baby and her two Anatolian Shepherds. She wanted something that was 4 wheel drive as winters around here can get ugly and she likes to be able to go into the mountains as well.

Had her look at some smaller SUVs Cherokee's, Trail Blazer, S10 Blazers, Explorer, 4 Runner etc. Nope none of them had enough room for the boys. Look at the Tahoe, yep checks all the boxes, uses a bit more gas than her old rig but its newer, safer, better equipped etc. Also we can get the Tahoe basically with no money out of pocket because of what we got for her old Tacoma.

Here it is almost 2 months later she takes my Charger every chance she gets because the Tahoe is "to big". Uh I tried to get you to get something smaller and you said they were all to small!

Took a year to convince the wife she needed a new car before hers started nickel and dimeing us to the poor house. Spent a month going out every Thursday and having her test driving different vehicles.

Then I let her decide which one she wanted and haven't heard a complaint yet(1 1/2 years now).