Would you believe that i just bought a 2019 SUV that gets...are you sitting down...53MPG. The sticker says that it averages 50MPG, but I've been averaging 52 - 55mpg for the last 3 -weeks.
It's outstanding.
My boss in Norway bought it first. I never even heard of it before. It's a Kia!! I also bought the Advanced Technology Package along with it, and that gives it Autonomous braking (only in cruise control), steering, lane changing, Front collision warning, and some other stuff.
I've made lots of videos of it steering itself down the highway by itself, but it needs two white lines to navigate itself in-between them (I don't even know how it works...cameras?? Sensors?? Both??). If you take your hands off the wheel and let it drive itself down the highway, it waits about 5-seconds before beeping--alerting you to place your hands back on the steering wheel.
I'm going to put all of the videos together and upload them to Youtube along with a brief review next week. I'll post the video here next week when i get the chance.
I'm very impressed with it, but more impressed with the 53MPG i'm averaging.
10yrs ago if someone would have told me that one day you can get a small SUV that gets over 50mpg, i would have laughed at them.
I'm not laughing now.