VXs have gotten more affordable, considering that the newest one is almost 7years old. Both of ours cost less than 1 when it was new.

I let my wife drive mine around for a few days and it grew on her too. I think that it was all the attention that she got driving it.
Other than myself, there are/were a number of other multi-VX households. Off the top of my head, both past and present:
Tone,
Joe Black,
Biju,
TechnoPope,
I know there's a few more, I just can't think of them right off.