Our situation is the same as your’s Brydo. We are financially comfortable. But, I can’t enjoy gas guzzlers no matter how I try. My wife takes the opposite view, that since we can afford it we should not make economy a consideration. I just can’t do it. Something inside me, just makes me feel uncomfortable about wasting money. It’s not that there aren’t cars I would have that are heavy on fuel, but they would have to be special, and offer something out of the ordinary. I appreciate that the xc40 is a very nice car. But its poor mpg from a modern engine. What happened to cars getting better and better mpg, so that if you ran an old car you paid a fuel penalty?
Now we seem to have gone backwards, where you get a brand new car and its MPG is lousy.