I used to race cars, everything from single-seat Formula Fords to tube-frame mid-engine cars. After 20 years or so, it got old, spending all those weekends and all that prep time. Now I'm down to a Jeep Grand Cherokee (tows the tent trailer, the building materials trailer, performs all the truck-like duties), an older Jeep Wrangler (mountain trails plus haul the trash trailer to the dump), a Mini Cooper S (supercharged, chipped, CAI, Borla exhaust) and a new Toyota RAV4 as the around-town and highway car - for a V6, it averages 28 mpg on the highway and 25 mpg in mixed driving. Not bad.
When I bought the Toyota, I intended to buy an American car (yes, yes, some "foreign" cars have more US labor and parts than "American" cars, let's not quibble) but Chrysler didn't make anything that suited my needs that wasn't butt ugly (I hate the look that is so popular, the cross between a HumVee and a Brink's truck) or got terrible gas mileage, GM shut my local dealer down, meaning I'd have to drive 150 miles to just look at one, never mind get it serviced, and what I liked in Ford was too expensive and came with a lot of features I didn't want. So it was down to a Subaru Forester or Outback or the Toyota RAV4, and the RAV4 won in my road tests.