What should I do for a vehicle?

So I'm married. We are very busy and don't have a lot of money.

I'd like to just get a scooter for driving around town and for the occasional out of town. Maybe a Honda PCX 150, that gets 100mpg and can go on the highway, although not too fast of course. The benefit would be that there would be a lot less to maintain and repair. Of course that doesn't go over too well with the wife seeing that it gets really cold and snowy here in the winter. This could be $5,000 to $6,000 brand new, then an occasional belt, oil change, valve adjustment, etc. Hopefully if anything breaks it won't be like $1,000 to fix.

We have an old VW Golf. The problem is that it needs quite a bit of repair. I don't mind doing the repair, but I don't have the time. And a mechanic charges $75 to $100 an hour. They are actually quite expensive here, charging a bare minimum $100 just for an alignment, which is why I've figured out how to align it myself (and I do a pretty good job if I may say so. I have to align it after any time I do work to the suspension.) It seems that that's just the way used cars are, always needing something, which takes away either time or money or both. When they break down then we're having to wait until we save up enough money to fix it. In the mean time there is no public transportation, so we have to bike or bum rides.

On the other hand we could get a new car. On the one hand it wouldn't need to much as far as repairs and stuff at first. But payments plus insurance = >$500.

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