Reply #142: You might want to check out the Ford Escape hybrid or its Mercury Mariner twin.

[amandabeech]

They're smaller SUVs, but in Manhattan stop and go traffic, the full hybrid drive train gave something like 37 mpg. Of course, not much is like the Manhattan stop and go (about which I speak from experience) which almost continually uses the brakes which in a hybrid charges the battery.

Mileage will be less in normal suburban/city driving, but my recollection is that overall mileage is expected to be more than 20 mpg.

I'm at work and can't take time to Google, but you might want to check out what's out there on the Escape/Mariner hybrid.