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Another vote for buying a small car. I recently drove a 2004 Chevrolet Aveo (it was a loaner car), and got 35.8 MPG in the coldest part of the winter. That car had an automatic transmission.
Get one of those with a manual transmission and do some easy mods: grille block, LRR tires pumped up, wheel alignment checked, a Scangauge or Ultragauge, a kill switch, and some belly pan tweaks. I estimate that I would average about 45 MPG in our winters, 55 in the summer, and 49 to 50 MPG year around.
In your warmer climate, you should be able to average well over 50 MPG. I would think that most any small car should perform similarly.
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06 Canyon: The vacuum gauge plus wheel covers helped increase summer 2015 mileage to 38.5 MPG, while summer 2016 mileage was 38.6 MPG without the wheel covers. Drove 33,021 miles 2016-2018 at 35.00 MPG.
22 Maverick: Summer 2022 burned 62.74 gallons in 3145.1 miles for 50.1 MPG. Winter 2023-2024 - 2416.7 miles, 58.66 gallons for 41 MPG.
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