So going down the 2018 EPA raw data on fuel economy, looking at the unadjusted old style highway numbers (which still involves acceleration and deceleration and should be beatable steady state long haul), there are a few good numbers in there.
BMW 328d auto is 64.8 MPG
Cruze (hatchback or sedan) 1.6d manual is 77 **non-hybrid champ***
Cruze 1.6d auto is 70.2
Jaguar XE 2.0d auto is 63.2
Mirage auto is 64.4 **non hybrid, non diesel new champ**
Mirage G4 auto is 61.7
Prius c is 64.0
Fusion hybrid is 62.4
Sonata hybrid is 64
Camry hybrid LE is 71.8 (the XLE/SE drop to 64.5 for some reason)
Prius is 71.6
Prius eco is 77.8
Accord hybrid is 69.5
Ioniq is 74.9
Ioniq blue is 79.1 ***this is the champ, new car***
Kia Niro FE auto is 66.2
Now going back to 2001 and looking at the same test
Golf, Beetle, or Jetta TDI manual was 62.9 mpg
Prius was 57.9
Insight was 87.4 ****clearly the best ever****
Civic HX manual was 56.0
If you wanted to go older than 2001 in 1995
1995 Honda VX was 72 mpg *best non-diesel, non-hybrid I could find*
Swift was 63
Ferrari F50 gets 14 *best at something*
I think this should make the G1 the best but then again it is optimized from the factory. I wonder if any of the others would beat it with a few tweaks.
https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/download.shtml