I went from a Saturn SL to a 2006 Scion xB recently. I'm happy with the switch! The xB has lots more room; particularly, the room for passengers in the back is awesome. We took it on a trip from Atlanta to and through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and it did fine on the mountain roads. It's a manual transmission and I'm getting about 30 mpg city. It's worth a test drive.