To HybridVUE: thanks for the thoughts. There's no malfunction to be found - in the time we've had it, Saturn/GM have had it for over a month checking everything out. We probably have the cleanest bill of health of any VUE on the planet so no malfunction unfortunately. We had so hoped that something would be found given our total disillusionment but, sadly, not. To their credit they have tried pretty hard to figure this out.

The bottom line is that it's not suited to a 15 min suburban commute (a potential 12 stops over about 5 miles on a bad day). What I'd love to see is one of the higher FE folk try a similar course and see what they get. That would be a pretty good test.

Highway MPG's are fine (not stellar) but good enough to keep us happy from that point of view. Then again, I don't see anyone averaging 35 there either...