Am I being unreasonable to sugggest to my husband that he should change his 2 seater car for a 5 seater? To give context he bought a 2 seater convertible car second hand a few years ago for his Birthday when our children were younger ( 3 and 5) and I was working part time, and locally so didn't need to drive much. Our kids are now 5 and 8.
We have another small SUV that can fit the children in. However I am starting a new full time job soon 20 minutes drive away. He works at home and occasionally takes the train into London. When I start working full time he will be taking main responsibility for the children's pick up and drop offs and various afterschool clubs which we have to drive to.
I will need to drive his 2 seater to work as he will be doing most of the taxi-ing of kids to clubs. I feel that we would be able to manage the logistics better if we had 2 cars that could fit children in, so that if I wanted to do morning drop off, or pick the children up straight after work this would be more manageable. Or sometimes, esp at weekends, we can mix and match drop offs and pick ups around our own social lives/gym/errands. Whereas at the moment that is not possible.
As it stands, since he has bought it he has rarely driven the 2 seater car, and I actually drove it more often than he did on my days off work. Occasionally he has even had the option to take the 2 seater out himself when he's gone out but has admitted himself that the larger car is more comfortable so opted for the SUV. I feel it doesn't make sense to keep the 2 seater sat in the drive way most the time, when we could buy a 5 seater (still more fun and nippy car than the SUV) that we could use at a weekends with kids in tow, and even fit extra friends in if ine of us is taxi-ing to parties and playdates.
He has refused, without much other reason than he likes it, it was a Bday present to himself and so he wants to keep it. And I am finding it frustrating that he won't find reason in what I am saying. He has even suggested we can buy a third car instead if I really want. But we don't need and cant afford 3 cars.
It is not a particularly special/collectible car. A bog standard lower end 2 seater convertible. So I don't understand his attachment to it when it is barely used. I understand he likes the car, but in the grand scheme of things just doesn't make sense as a family of 4.