Your story is suspect and un VP like...
Therefore one must conclude your wife is making you buy a minivan...
You are wizened beyond years.
I want the very gaudy, completely impractical, gas guzzling, 50 ish thousand dollar beast of the 2017 Ford Raptor.
The logic was to make a substantial down payment so the wife didn't have to see a 900$ payment go out the door for a truck. I was going to try and pay about half (not all of which would be deployment money but from savings).