Sounds like while you can get away with one car, it’s nice to have a second backup car.

As a backup car, I wouldn’t bother with new.

Perhaps you can use it as an opportunity to dabble in the next generation of car – an electric vehicle specifically. EV’s make great in town runabouts!

And you can do it on the cheap, with it still under warranty, for a little more than half the price of that new Corolla appliance.

Look at 2013/2014 Nissan Leaf’s. ~10k with low mileage. Either with factory warranty still intact or buy an extended warranty.