SUV recommendation

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Anonymous wrote:I’m looking to spend in the mid 30’s on a used SUV (2018 or newer). I need a third row for occasional use only. We put high mileage on our cars and keep them for years. I’m considering the Highlander. Does anyone have opinions on the Highlander or other vehicles to consider. Thanks!

Highlanders are great. Reliable, comfortable, plenty of space for cargo and passengers.

Weird - my 15 year old station wagon does all of that and gets great mileage too. Of course like all cars on the road most of its miles are my wife driving alone to work but hey get that third row for the 6 times a year you will need it so someone doesn't have to sit in the middle seat.

Everyone driving these silly status symbols realizes that we are killing our planet right now? And that everyone on the road, including you, is less safe too?

I highly doubt your 15 year old wagon gets significantly better gas mileage than a modern SUV or minivan. Most SUVs now are based on cars, not trucks, and fuel efficiency has improved significantly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m looking to spend in the mid 30’s on a used SUV (2018 or newer). I need a third row for occasional use only. We put high mileage on our cars and keep them for years. I’m considering the Highlander. Does anyone have opinions on the Highlander or other vehicles to consider. Thanks!

Highlanders are great. Reliable, comfortable, plenty of space for cargo and passengers.

Weird - my 15 year old station wagon does all of that and gets great mileage too. Of course like all cars on the road most of its miles are my wife driving alone to work but hey get that third row for the 6 times a year you will need it so someone doesn't have to sit in the middle seat.

Everyone driving these silly status symbols realizes that we are killing our planet right now? And that everyone on the road, including you, is less safe too?

I highly doubt your 15 year old wagon gets significantly better gas mileage than a modern SUV or minivan. Most SUVs now are based on cars, not trucks, and fuel efficiency has improved significantly.

Yup it does - we average 33MPG in a mix of suburban/highway driving (we don't drive it that much in DC because we don't need to) and we still get over 40MPG on the highway.

And most SUVs are in fact SUVs for classification purposes because the mileage is so poor - Outbacks were cars until about 15 years ago when Subaru decided to ditch marketing them as being fuel efficient and instead market them as being hip so progressives don't have to think about driving something that in fact is a gas guzzler but to do that Subaru re-classified them as SUVs so they would meet US fuel efficiency standards.

Even the hybrid SUV's that are on the market in almost no instances get better mileage than non hybrid baseline car models.

But there is money to be made upselling consumers to SUVs - we'll figure out how to rescue the planet later.