The world of cars is a complicated one, and every driver’s desires are slightly different. Thankfully there are dozens of automakers building hundreds of different kinds of cars all over the world, and if you want to pick something on the used market, your available numbers grow exponentially. Let’s say you’ve got a two car garage and a reasonably approachable budget (say under $100,000). Given your druthers, if you had to pick just two cars to serve as your “solution” to the problem of needing a daily driver and a fun car, which two cars would you choose?
I recently took the above photo at a small car gathering, and all I could think was that this might be damn close to my ideal solution. Of course this is a problem I’ve created for myself, buying and attempting to maintain 10 cars and three motorcycles. If I could pare it back to just two, I think these two might just be the answer for me. A Toyota GR Corolla would serve great as a daily commuter, while also capable of hustling at autocrosses and track days, while the Cayenne Diesel could manage my regular towing needs and long-distance highway shuttling, as well as some light off-roading.
There is an account over on Instagram, @2carsolution, which posits a similar question. “When a pairing of cars hits just right…” says the account’s bio, and most of the time they’re right.
There are lots of different ways to come at this problem. The first question you need to answer is what you want these cars to accomplish for you. Do you want a track car? A tow rig? An overlander? A plush commuter for your long afternoons stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic? Once you figure that out, you can start filling out the garage with potential use cases. So let’s have it, what’s your two-car solution?