If you are a car enthusiast, then perhaps it is always one more than you have. If you are an environmentalist on the other hand, the answer may be none at all.
For my wife and I, the answer turns out to be two (not including the three classics that are outside of the range ofCM). After a number of years, we have ended up with two cars that not only allow us to go to different places at the same time but also serve very different purposes.
At the moment, those two cars are a 2011 Fiat Panda and a 2007 Volvo S60 2.4D, both of which have previously been featured in these pages (the Panda in September 2020 and the Volvo in June 2021). One car is used for short