Letting my wife drive the fleet

[inconsistant]

20 hours ago, Peter C said:

We had (great) sex that evening.

Was it ‘classic’ intercourse?

 

 

[barefoot]

Letting my wife drive the fleet

I don't understand this. The multiple cars we have are ours. The fair wife doesn't much care for the Scirocco or the t2. But enjoys driving the 75 and the 944. We don't do 'his n hers'.

[Rust Collector]

6 minutes ago, barefoot said:

Letting my wife drive the fleet

I don't understand this. The multiple cars we have are ours. The fair wife doesn't much care for the Scirocco or the t2. But enjoys driving the 75 and the 944. We don't do 'his n hers'.

We have a similar dynamic in my relationship, but not due to my partner having any interest in the cars; it’s more that if she wants to drive anywhere then she just has to make do with whatever vehicle isn’t broken at that point in time.

She’s a lucky* lady to have me 🤣

[Brigsy]

I prefer my mrs to own the cars so she has to pay the insurance and tax. I have tried offloading a couple to her for free for this reason but shes wise to it now😄

[Lord Sterling]

On 15/12/2025 at 19:39, GrumpiusMaximus said:

My Mum always used to hate driving my Dad's cars and always found them difficult to park (apparently).

Explain this.  She had a Volvo 240 at the same time Dad drove a Ford Fiesta!  Mum stopped driving a couple of years ago.  She's only 66!

Apart from having big cars, this sounds exactly like my Mum. She's always hated driving big cars and prefers small cars. Plus my Mum has temporarily given up driving, mainly because what she had wasn't an auto and she didn't fancy shelling out for one.

[EyesWeldedShut]

On 14/12/2025 at 21:50, UltraWomble said:

Top of that list was the Citroen BX,

No chance we're married to a bigamist?
BX hated only marginally more than an XM (which I've never owned, only hinted at  ). Ovlov 940 she never drove as she hated that one too i.e. anything wedge shaped.
Most other stuff she's either driven or 'stolen' - most recent thefts are CLK and SLK320. The latter, apparently, was her idea to buy from the outset? Weird...

[stuboy]

future mrstuboy wont drive the mighty mondeo as she cant see out the rear window.......................

[Bradders59]

On 15/12/2025 at 00:16, Wibble said:

My wife says the Superb is too big but used the Senator as her daily 20 years ago?

My Wife regularly drove my Senator 25 years ago, but wont drive any car at all now.

Tried getting to the bottom of why, but answers are mysterious at best.

[Zelandeth]

I always enjoy letting folks drive my cars.  Aside from getting to experience them as a passenger being different, it's always something I figured was just fun to share.  It's all fine and good taking them to shows and such, but looking at them only tells you so much.

I was quite lucky in that I had two good friends back up north who always had some interesting and often quite exotic motors coming and going and were always happy to toss me the keys to anything once I was driving, even before that they always made a point of dropping by and taking us for trips out in whatever they had at the time.  They said half the fun of having interesting cars was sharing them.  I guess I've just carried that tradition on.  You never knew what they would turn up in, it literally could be anything from a Ford Model T to Lada Riva to Fiat 500 (the original one) to a Lamborghini Diablo and just about everything in between.

It's their fault that a Rolls Silver Spirit is on my wishlist though!  Did a good number of miles in the driver's seat of that.

The *only* car nobody else got to drive was a (very orange) W plate Escort 1.3L 2-door estate.  That was the first car he bought new, and was of huge sentimental value and was the only one he was at all protective of.  

[hairnet]

3 hours ago, Bradders59 said:

My Wife regularly drove my Senator 25 years ago, but wont drive any car at all now.

Tried getting to the bottom of why, but answers are mysterious at best.

2.5 she wanted 3.0?

[Bradders59]

It was a 3.0 24v and she loved it. Current 3.2 Omega she likes but wont drive it, or anything else.

The common excuse is the memory seat adjustment is too complicated, but Im pretty sure its purely a confidence thing, but she wont admit to that.

[beko1987]

My ex wasn't too bad from what I remember.

When we first got together we pretty much swapped cars for 18 months and she had my puma and I had her corsa c 😂 My fuel bill thanked me.

She drove the zx twice, once to pick me up from a pub where I accidentally got shit faced.

Wouldn't drive the xm locally but didn't mind taking it up the motorway on long trips. Seem to remember she liked the 406 but that was as fucked as our relationship was at the time and didn't last long.

She ended up hating my regular changing of cars, despite it being the cheaper way out of whatever went wrong with the last car and I kept her cars (cos of the kids) in top order 🤷