My older son recently purchased a 2019 Lexus SUV RX flex fuel hybrid. He's got some complaints about the navigation system and the auto cabin temperature control, too many bells and whistles, but with six kids to cart around, it fit a need. He's getting about 35 mpg in city driving, 60mpg or so on the highway heading back and forth to our place in Rhinebeck, and further north. As a trauma medical specialist, he's also decked out the vehicle for emergency response, including a refrigerated cooler for emergency meds like adrenaline, a police band two way radio, a portable defibrillator, a small oxygen generator, and both a rolled up stretcher which rides in a container under the vehicle, and a rear seat with casters he can pull out for wheel chair use when necessary. No sirens, but a blue flashing light array builtin to the lighting system. He paid about $50k with a souped up suspension, and I think it indicates the future of SUVs and crossovers in general. His wife drives a two year old Subaru, and he's getting better mileage.
It's scary, his five year old twin boys have figured out how to use the police radio. They are not allowed in the front seat, but they manage to ignore dad and mom at every opportunity.
