Women and children enough to drive you to drink

[DaMadman]

Can I please have a few opinions on this please

here's my situation.

I have a daughter that has been in college 2 years, at community college. She is starting at the State University this semester in a hearing and speach to get her masters.

Well when my daughter started driving we gave her a my wife's toyota tercel and bought my wife a 4 Runner and she has been driving it ever since. we put an engine in it for her and the car is in great shape. Now that she is going to be driving to the University 2 times a week and it is about an 1 to 1-1/2 hours drive my wife is scared for her to drive the Tercel because it is such a small car and she think she would be safer in a larger vehicle. My wife and I both have 2 vehicles the wife drives a Honda accord and also has a Toyota 4 Runner I drive a dodge truck or a Bronco II


My wife bought the Honda because she was getting upset driving the 4 Runner to work and it was starting to get nicks and dings and cracked widshield and racking up the miles so she bought a beater to drive (the honda) and only drives the 4 Runner a few days every couple week or on trips. The same with my truck and the Bronco II
The truck gets poor gas mileage and i was really racking up the miles so I bought the broncoII as a daily driver.
Anyway after recently (a year) ago getting rid of our Car Payments (payed off all the vehicles) and hearing my wife talk about how nice it really is to NOT have that payment hanging over our head, now all of the sudden my wife want to give the 4 Runner to our daughter, sell the Tercell and the BroncoII buy a Highlander for herself and pick me up a different truck to drive to work.

My solution is to let our daughter drive the 4 Runner 2 days a week to school, keep her tercel to run around town and as a daily driver and NOT have a $400 a month car payment.

Well the wife is all bent out of shape at me and is making me feel like a jerk because she says she would just really feel better with our daughter driving the 4 Runner and I am thinking about the amount of debt for basically no good reason.

Does anyone here see this in a differnet light.

who thinks I am being unreasonable and who think I am doing the right thing?


I am just asking for opinions and I would not get mad one way or the other.

I just respect you guys and your thoughts and would like to know what you would do in this situation.

The way I look at it is that we already gave our daughter one car, we pay her car insurance, we pay her cellphone bill and we have paid for her first two years of college. She is a great kid and does work and buys her own shampoos and pays for part of her books and has payed for her insurance in the past. She is putting the rest of the college on student loans and we already told her that we would help her with books and living expenses (gas, clothes, books ect.)
She has a reliable car (the tercel) and she can drive the 4 Runner the couple days a week to and from school, and this way she still has her little car that gets good gas mileage and has use of a little safer of a vehicle to drive back and forth to school. Without me having to shell out $25,000 to $30,000 for another new vehicle when we already have reliable transportation in the driveway.

Am I being unreasonable guys