I wasn't a fan of my '16 Impala on road trips. The V6 has plenty of power, but the seat is built to make you lean left. I like to lean right and rest my arm, you know, on the arm rest, and some weird metal hump in the seat would push against my ass. Also, the car wasn't Droid-friendly.. So, if you have an iPhone and like to lean left while driving, it's an okay car. Back seat room was abnormally high, so kid seats aren't an issue. Averaged over 20 mpgs and I drive like an asshole.
Had a 4cyl Cherokee or Compass (don't really care to recall) rental in Philly a couple months ago. It was okay, minus the fucking shifter. In D, at the bottom, it has manual shifting if you bump it left or right into a + or -. If you fucking breathe on the thing, congratulations you're stuck in some gear until you push it up into 3, then back down into D. You won't even notice unless you have one eye on the gauge cluster showing you're in Manual mode.
Obvious conclusion is that a lot of cars seem okay on paper with their mpg's etc, but you gotta test drive them.