We've managed without a car for years now - we just tend to hire them for weekends away/holidays as and when we need to and use public transport the rest of the time, but from next year we'll have a school run and a nursery run to do, as well as get ourselves to work, and running a car seems the easiest solution. I don't have any attachment to cars and like the idea of getting use of a brand new reliable car, having all the maintenance covered and then 2/3 years later getting a new model all for a fixed monthly cost - cars suffer so much depreciation anyway.
I gather it's quite common in some countries - has anyone done it here?