Subaru's Forester and Outback
Subaru's Forester and Outback have excellent EPA fuel economy ratings. In our testing they match or exceed those ratings, just as VW's vehicles do. Every vehicle sold in America has the same test cycle (or cycles if you count the two that are averaged in EPA's formula). For real-world safety rankings there is not better source than HDLI and IIHS. Here is the link: http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/driver-death-rates As you can see the Jetta wagon and Subaru Outback are both excellent with a driver death rate per million miles of 6. However, the Legacy has the best rating ever recorded at "0" and the Jetta has a rating of 20.