Example is the best way. Get through a Nebraska winter with your current set up and the wife may be interested.

Selling your car may be fairly easy. Make sure she gets her share of the proceeds. My ex-wife and I spent many years as a one car family. There weren't too many problem spots. Get a AAA card for her. Tow trucks can cure almost anything. For most other situations, things can be worked out.

The worst one for me? I was at the gas station five miles from home late at night and locked the car with the keys in it when I went to pay for gas. I got lucky in that a samaritan heard my plight and drove me home, but I still had to walk back with the spare keys.

Having a good bike rack for the car would be worth the money. Our car, a Mitsubishi Mirage, had beer can thick metal, and trying to put a rack on visibly dimpled the trunk when lashing it on, so we couldn't use it.