Just dawned on me--I don't think I can buy another beater car. It actually has to be nice.
Wife just accepted a job at the hospital, as a lab tech, which means "essential". It's also like 40 miles away, where you cross over a bit of a mountain area, and are nearly into VT. What are the odds of needing AWD & snow tires & clearance at midnight in winter?
This was not what I wanted to buy...

I was hoping to keep to all cheap FWD's but this changes things. I had not thought about this when encouraging her to go back to work!