<prompt> Human: Edit: heres so more info that I had posted below. Budget: 17,000.00Currently my wife either drives me to work first thing in the morning or I drop the car off to her at lunch. This has been very convenient for the most part since I only work 4 miles from home. Im now moving jobs to an office about 25 minutes away no traffic and about an hour with traffic. Thus, the reason we are looking for a car. Ideal world we keep doing our thing and she drops me off. Among other things, a chief concern of my wife is my ability to get home from the new office in case of any type of emergency. All replies are truly appreciated and I thank everyone for their insights.  <response>: Mr. Money Mustache has a pretty helpful car-buying guide There are several wagons crossovers on here that might be a good compromise between an SUV and a sedan. And 17k is more than enough for the cars here - you could get most of them for 10k and save the remaining 7k 