Actually, there was a bit of a story there. We were replacing our 3 and a bit year old Holden Vectra, and we buy mid-sized sedans (don't want a 4WD truck, and we need to cart friends and family around so no coupes - so no Monaro next time around...).
The deal with us is that she has the car lease through work, and I, being the car guy, come up with a short list of cars (usually four to six) for us to look at, with one or two preferred cars from that list.
Having done the sums we knew what we were looking at, and the Liberty/Legacy was the very early favourite. From memory, the list was the Liberty/Legacy, another Vectra (what's the point of a new car if you're just going to get another one), the Mazda 626, the Honda Accord, the Peugeot 406 and the Citroen Xantia (hey, I had a quota to fill!).
The Pug, Citroen, Vectra (although the manual V6 hatch made a late run) and 626 fell out very early. I pushed for the Accord to be de-listed as well, but my partner stuck out and wanted to look more closely.
Now, as we know in the US the Accord squares off against the Camry. In Australia, Honda fancies itself as a bit of a prestige brand so the Accord is pushed up level. It's quite cynical (although not VW New Beetle cynical) and I don't much care for Honda Australia because of this.
So - I put my foot down. If we're test-driving the Accord, then we're test-driving the Camry.
It was then I found out that apparently we have an image to maintain, so test-driving the Camry (the prospect of owning one) were not in the frame. Scratch the Accord!
Turns out the Accord in the spec we wanted would have been about $7k dearer than the Liberty/Legacy - and I can't say I was impressed with the quality of the interior.
Very funny - great example of relationship dynamics.