[jcp123]

CUVs have come a long way. My company rented me a Ford Escape a while back and doing nothing special aside from a few extra psi in the tires and cruise control at 65, I recorded 36mpg. That's with some windows down/sunroof open time followed by AC use and alleged acceleration burts and rubber-slaying. Got about 10 miles of slower mild hypermiling at 49mpg at the end. For a vehicle with 240hp which could allegedly do 100yd burnouts, and handle as well as it did, the case for the Prius V is a bit difficult.