Which car should I keep, or do I keep both?

I found out the incredible news today that a lady at my church, who is buying a new car, wants to give me her old car. She says she’s been blessed and at one time I had expressed an interest in buying it since my car was getting older, so she said then she just decided to give it to me.

Now, it turns out her car has a hundred thousand miles on it, so it’s not quite as big a deal as you might initially think. The car though is only 11 years old. My current car has about 90,000 miles but is 15 years old. I told her I would take the car because she had to know today and I really just couldn’t process it that quickly about what I should end up doing, but my question is, which car is going to end up being the better one to keep?

She also just got new tires on her car and I was getting ready to buy a new tires on mine. Also, my car has some cosmetic issues from when it was my dad’s car before he gave it to me. He wasn’t in any major accidents but he got some scrapes on his car over the years.

I know she’s kept up with all the maintenance work on her car, as have I, but my car is just not running as smoothly as it used to so I’m really debating.

Another option would be for me to keep both cars but I’m trying to figure out if it would be worth it to pay insurance on both cars. I don’t know if it would be too much more because I already have a renter’s policy and my current car’s insurance, so to add another policy would probably be at a discounted rate.

It’s just me in my household so it probably seems silly to keep two cars, but I know that right now I am not sure about taking my car if I drive up to the mountains so it would be nice to have another one. And the other good thing is that, if one of the cars broke down, I would have another car to fall back on until that one gets repaired.

I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts on the matter.