I don't know what SUVs you drive - but I don't believe there's one on this planet that would get 19-22 MPG overall mileage where I live, in the winter. Flatland Michigan, maybe. My wife and I are always on the lookout for any AWD or 4WD that can get good fuel mileage - but they are getting harder to find all the time. Even our old standys - Subarus - are hard to find with small engines and many of the newer ones are dogs. We live on top of a mountain in New York on a narrow dirt road that gets a lot of wind-driven snow drifts all winter long. So, even when it doesn't snow, many mornings have a 1-2 foot snow drifts we have to drive through. And, my wife drives 50 miles a day, up and over two mountain dirt roads. We've experimented for years with may types of 4WD and AWD vehicles. For a conventional SUV, I've never found one that could do better than 18 MPG in winter driving - and we don't drive them hard. That's all around driving average - not a long trip on a flat highway. Recently my wife's parents came to visit here - from Alpena,Michigan. They have a new Ford Escape - with the high-output 3 liter V6 and 4WD. They got 25 MPG coming here, which is pretty impressive. But, they stayed here for two weeks - and averaged 15 MPG - and it was summer - not winter. I've watched and checked fuel mileage very closely with our vehicles. We don't buy much new, but here's what we've gotten in average winter driving.
My wife's summer 2WD drive is a 91 Volkswagen Jetta diesel. It consistently gets 50 MPG on the highway - and gets 38 MPG average - climbing mountain roads. My summer driver - when not needing a truck - is a 1981 Chevy Chevette 1.8 diesel and it gets 48 MPG highway and 35 MPG around town. I wish we could drive them in the winter. But, even if we could - the road-salt would quickly detroy them.
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