What car offers the best combination of awd, mpg, and fun, for the money?

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03-11-2013, 11:19 AM

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Your right about the WRX being fun and AWD.

MPG

^Oh wait what is that? I'll just sweep that under the rug

Pretty much. My first thought was WRX as well, but then you look at mpg, and you start shuffling the deck.

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03-11-2013, 11:21 AM

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That's a good point. Disregard the STI comment.

So the Countryman gets 25/31 mpg and the WRX 19/25. But the Mini has a 1.6L engine putting out 181 hp and the WRX a 2.5L engine with 265 hp

Yeah I would still take the WRX.

This is where I ended up. WRX is fun, Mini is still fun, but 100 hp down, but gets you the extra mpg.

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03-11-2013, 11:31 AM

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335D xDrive

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03-11-2013, 12:45 PM

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335D xDrive

This car doesn't exist... at least not in the U.S.

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03-11-2013, 01:15 PM

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03-11-2013, 01:20 PM

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I bought Mingster's WRX and I can get 26/27 highway in the summer months. He put new injectors/turbo/cobb stage 1 etc.

Although I have the 2.0L, I hear they get better mileage than the 2.5L.

Waiting for the new body to come out or I might get a BMW 135

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03-11-2013, 01:51 PM

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335D xDrive

This car doesn't exist... at least not in the U.S.

It will soon

http://www.bmwblog.com/2013/01/29/bm...n-summer-2013/

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03-11-2013, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Saki GT

I was thinking about fun awd cars and good mpg, and I ended up concluding that the Mini Countryman is the car to beat for a fun, awd, and good mpg car.

Can anyone think of anything else?

Mitsubishi Lancer Ralliart is fun, inexpensive AWD - but has horrible MPG. What about Audi A3? Very tunable engine, from what I hear.