Hard to believe there are sports cars on this list.

You left out the SX4 Crossover, one of the most underrated vehicles on the road.

25 mpg is not “fuel efficient” I have a 1995 volvo that gets almost 30 mpg…
I expect better from cars 17 years later…

I’m not pleased at all with so many of the car companies out there!  Most still get really poor gas milage! And if they happen to get great milage they look like a very Fugly Hoopty!  They charge so much more money for it that any money I saved on milage all went back into the over priced Fugly car I bought to save money on gas.  I love Honda’s and Acura’s but the gas milage sucks!  My car requires Super Unleaded/Premium Gas and I only get about 19 miles a gallon.  If I were a car maker I’d make Family cars, Trucks
 and Convertible Sports Cars that looked and performed great with 5 Star safety, tech smart, electric, at least 100 miles to the gallon and sell them for 25,000 to 35,000 and sell 10X more then everyone else!

Hmmm. Shud i buy a used one: maybe ’08 -’10 ?
martha

Sorry, I owned two of them one in 2011 and another in 2012, it’s a long story why I had two identical cars in two years in a row, but I’ll share if you’re not bored. In my opinion the SX4 is just a basic (not bad, not exceptional) car that will, do the obvious, i.e. take you from point A to point B ok, but at the same time it’s plagued by a lot of design flaws (e.g. annoyances) that really have an impact on you in the end. It is definitely a “plough”, with excellent driveability through snow and great safety features but beyond that (non snow driving) it’s a car that gets on your nerves quickly. It is probably one of the the worst cars I have driven judging it in many other aspects. Since this thread is about mpg, the epa estimate of 23/29 is a bogus, with average driving I get more like 19/26. I ‘ve never gotten more than 21 in the city no matter how carefully I drive and yes, I will get as high as 32 mpg in the highway but only if I were to drive for at least one hour at a steady speed of no more than 55-60 mph without having to brake and re-accelerate, which is pretty unrealistic. I also found the Suzuki dealers to be on the average pretty shoddy and manipulative, in general a very unpleasant experience with the SX4.     

What about TDI?