What you say makes sense, but take my situation as a counter-example.

I commute 15 miles each way to work and my wife works from home. I drive a small car that gets 30mpg and she has a minivan for toting kids around, grocery shopping etc.

If we ever need to go anywhere that requires comfort, additional space or a long drive, we will take the minivan. For running to work or zipping around the neighborhood, we use the smaller car.

An electric car that would suit our lifestyle perfectly existed over ten years ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_EV1

Try co-op games instead. Like you, I hate getting repeatedly owned by 15 year olds, but co-op is a whole other ball game.

Hellgate:London was my game of choice for the past year, but there's only about 10 days of that left now :( Some other free to play co-op games include Diablo 2, Titan Quest, Dungeon Runners, Guild Wars, Sacred 2 and many others.

Sure, you can play all these games solo, but they really come to life when there's a whole team of players helping each other out and kicking the crap out of the computer AI. :D