Controversially just Keep it if its paid for, and don't become a sheep 
We all get sucked into accepting massive and continual depreciation in the name of desire, which is most likely the 2nd biggest purchase in our lives behind a mortgage. Imagine if we traded up in property every few years to then take a massive hit at resale, and then repeat like we do with cars! 
Every car after 2020 has more features you don't want, and things that are more complicated to turn off, or what's worse can't be turned off.
I've had a good few nice cars (to me), I've lost a lot of money on nice cars, and its taken me till 54 to work this out
Wise words.
Well, unless buying before and then selling in a boom you’d have to recover stamp duty, solicitors fees, removal costs, all the bits of necessaries you have to put into a newly bought house and if you bought a new build (equivalent of buying a new car but also needs flooring, furnishing, garden sorting, curtains, blinds, shelving etc etc) then you’d certainly see a huge hit to your finances.
Houses are longer term investments just like stocks and shares.
Cars depreciate far less once (ironically) they’re out of warranty and the associated risks actually increase, so could be argued a far better long term purchase like a house if nothing serious goes wrong. Unfortunately the last of the VW’s you could actually sit on your drive and fix with basic tools and a swear box would be an up! which went out of production several years ago. Anything newer than that is just a motorised iPad and heaven help us when they get old.
Plus I’d argue that buying a sports car or hot hatch isn’t sheep like these days as the sheep all “drive” SUV’s. And I use the term drive loosely. Real sheep would actually do just as good a job of piloting those things as your average human driver.
And then there’s renting. Rent a house and you’re at the mercy of the landlord, your costs will go up and not down as the market changes and if the nice lady who rented you the house pegs it then chances are the family will sell it and boot you out. At that point it gets very financially painful, I watched my sister go through that process a year or two ago.
Most buyers of new cars are technically renters.
I still think a well kept mk7 is worth hanging onto, just like mk2’s and mk5’s stood the test of time (only the former two were arguably better built).
What to do eh Watts?
Maybe talk the wealthy wife into buying a house with a bigger drive and space to fit a car to suit each of your moods?
