After the car broke down, we realized that I need to travel to the office on 2 particular days and he shifted his appointments around, to go in on the other days. If either of us needs an additional office-day, we drop the other off at the train station.

And that was it. We could have done that the whole time, but we didn't think of it.

I now just do my shopping and appointments, and whatnot, on those two days or on the weekend.

Could we have 2 cars in the States? Probably. Does it matter to us? Not really.

A lot of things don't really matter.