text: I would not even look at an SUV without a Diesel engine. I took my sister in laws ROUGE to the store yesterday and it said the gas mileage since she bough it averaged 12.5 L/100km, with almost 100,000 km. It is about the same as my Lexis IS350. However my VW Touareg TDI is just 8.4 L per 100 L of fuel with over 80,000km on it. That is a big difference (close to 50% better for those inclined to do the math) and it is a beautiful handling SUV, stops on a dime, will drive 160 KM per hour no problem and hauls my boat to boot. In NB, the diesel is cheaper after the winter, always cheaper in Ontario  and out west, but we have a lot of oil burner stoves so the price goes up in the busy heating season. The bad news is when I went to look for a new one at VW two days ago the sales guy told me VW was not making the diesel for North America any more,. He did say that Mazda may bring one in with the CR9 latter in 2017 so I will have to wait, which is not a bad thing, just a change in plans.