Do you think that fuel economy is a factor in determining which car to buy? We at TACH believe that it could be a tie breaker and that everything is equal. Lets see this SUV gets 6 mpg and this one 8 mpg, although I really like the other I can get 2 extra MPG with this baby.dream on folks.if MPG really mattered we would all be driving cars that get 50 MPG but we re nahhhot!