- Feb 18, 2001
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Please list one vehicle that you just assumed got good gas mileage yet let you down when you learned the facts.
My vote goes for the Scion XB, I am sitting here, surfing the net and a Scion commercial for the XB comes on. I was amazed to find that the combined MPG for the car (with a 2.4L 4 cyl) is only 24 MPG. I had never considered buying an XB because they looked so awfully ugly but assumed that others had bought one because they got great mileage ... they do not. This truly ugly vehicle (with a 4 cylinder engine) gets only 5 MPG more then my V-8 powered Lexus. In passing this begs tthe question as to why anyone would buy it. I'm sure some people find the car endearing ... but I thought blind people could not legally drive.