How much fuel you use depends upon how you drive,how you maintain your truck,ETC. Mine is a 2002 4 door and gets 16 city and 19-20 highway is I am lucky. I like to run the A/C and I have a heavy foot most of the time. Sportages are trucks they are geared for off road and run high highway RPM's even if in overdrive and torque converter lock up. I would not class a sportage as a economy car.