The Volkswagen Golf TSI: Wolfsburg gains the middle ground

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If you have the automatic in the Subaru, it's actually a CVT. CVT's are pretty famous for superb mpg but notorious for being completely absent of fun.

Tell that to my Nissan Versa.

I don't think we've ever gotten 30mpg out of the POS. The average fuel economy has been a couple of mpg better than my 2001 Saturn L200 (manual).

Further, it's really inconsistent with how it responds to pushing down on the pedal as if the shifting algorithms are badly written. Sometimes it "downshifts" until it's screaming at 5000 rpms and other times it doesn't shift low enough to get moving. Regardless, the shifter is laggy.

The worst part is that we bought this car because it was an economy car (Read: high mpg rating).

At this point, I'm pretty sure that the car is a lemon or that CVT is overhyped/sh*tty.

It's probably the CVT. I have a '15 Sentra with a CVT, and while it's not as bad as you're describing, it does leave a bit to be desired. Not sure what's up with your MPG though, I'm heavy on the pedal and get 27-30 city, 45 highway with cruise (1.8L)