sell my X5, or add 2nd SUV?

[c4racer]

Got a bit of a dilemma brewing here. We may end up in a situation where we need a 6 seat vehicle for 2 years starting in 3 months.

Current stable:
2007 Corvette
2000 740i
2003 4.6is
2003 Mazda protege - wife's car

Currently I split my driving between the vette, E38 and the X5. Wife sometimes drives the X5, but not all that often.

Oh - added wrinkle is we add a teenage driver to the household in the next month or so. Currently the thought is she will borrow wife's Mazda when she needs a car and wife drives the X5. Kid will not need a car on a daily basis.

So since I like the vette so much I am thinking that it will have to stay.

If I keep the X5, the 740i is the one to go and I would then get a bigger SUV to be used on carpool days (4-5 days a week is the way it is shaping out since we have 2 of the kids in it we get double duty cycle - oh joy). Thinking about getting a used Tahoe or Suburban since the wife really likes those and they hold value pretty well so wouldn't lose too much selling it after 2 years. She won't do the minivan thing - can't say I blame her, neither would I, and whatever we get I will end up driving too.

I'm also looking at a couple options with decent lease rates on a 24 or 36 month lease since we can go with a 10K mile or 12K mile limit easily. Mazda CX9 or maybe a Nissan Pathfinder. I would have gone Pilot in a heartbeat, but wife vetoed that idea too

Now if we do that we would have 2 SUV's which we don't really need. The one benefit is we wouldn't ever be fighting over the SUV when I go on a ski trip by myself or when I am hauling my music gear around, which is at least once a week and quite often more frequently.

Now, the X5 has 120K miles on it, but everything has been refreshed on it or will be soon, so it has many many more miles of fun driving ahead. Only thing that could cause trouble and big expense is the transmission or TC which is a potential concern. But the car has been well cared for and always maintained properly - it was a former CPO. So I'm not afraid to run up the miles on it, plus it only gets 10-12K / year which isn't so bad.

So is it crazy to have 2 SUV's in the household? I suppose we would not be the only ones eh?

Oh - I also tried to sell her on the idea of a Mazda5 which is a 6 seater mini-minivan / car / wagon type of thing. She vetoed that so fast it made my head spin Oh well, can't say I would have been all that excited about driving one myself....