 In general I really love my Mazda5.It is fun to drive and highly versatile for my growing family.What I loved most was that I did not have to give up a manual transmission to get a mini-van, and assumed I could get good gas mileage given the advertised 22-28mpg, especially with a 5-speed.That was an important selling point to me because I was trading in a fuel efficient sedan, and did not want to sacrifice fuel efficiency.But so far this car has yet to deliver anywhere close to the adverstised gas mileage.It has not yet *once* even gotten the lowest value of 22mpg since I purchased the vehicle almost 3 months and 3200 miles ago.It is usually an abyssmal 19.5 mpg.