I usually haul my bikes around on their tires To me, the bike is first & foremost a means of transportation.

In the rare cases that I've put bikes on a car, we have a rear rack that works perfectly on a small sedan for up to 3 bikes. Seriously, as the others have said a sedan is *more* than sufficient for hauling bikes around, and you have a lot of options as to how you do that (without damaging the car).

Why does your husband think that hauling a bike on the sedan is ridiculous? Is it for aesthetic reasons? Or because it isn't built for 'sport' and 'utility'?

I assume that you are going to be using the car for more than just transporting your bikes, you may want to consider that the Tahoe has much poorer gas mileage than the CTS and you're going to be stuck with that beyond the trips you take with your bikes. That makes a big difference beyond just the (financial) cost of gas.

To my mind what is ridiculous is to justify an extremely inefficient form of transportation because you want to haul bicycles around on occasion...but I am a little opinionated on the subject.

Anne