I do 40k per year and comfort is key…mpg is secondary to how comfortable I am. I avg 20 in my rx350 but the comfort is beyond worth it to me. I wish I could find something I like that gets near 30 but I don’t want a car for daily use and euro wagons cost too much to maintain.
I do 1000+ miles a week for work in my van, it doesn’t bother me because its used and has low miles. I would NEVER buy a new van for work it destroys the value of the vehicle. Say if I bought a 2013 transit connect with 2 miles on it, at the end of the week it would have 1,002 miles and the end of the year about 56,000.
I’ve had RWD vehicles since I started driving. I think 30mpg is pretty decent my budgets around 17-20k . I just saw 11,12 mustangs with 10-20k for 17 to 19k.