Yes...a four thousand pound truck with a hampster pulling it is sluggish.



I'm wondering why it wasn't sluggish when you test drove it though...that, is odd.



The X is a sturdy beast...a work horse, not a race horse.

It has a real frame...not a unibody like the station wagons dressed up to look like SUV's like the Ford Escape, etc...and you could crash it into stuff, and it might survive...its tough.

With the 4, it will never be quick...and, as its rated for about 17 mpg...you have to be patient with it...if you floor it away from every light....the gas needle and the tach needle pass each other quickly....and you will get less than the high teens for mpg.

If you accelerate gently, and go with the flow of traffic...you can get the mpg into the low to mid 20's....high 20's on the hwy for long trips.

BTW - ALL of your questions were asked already...there's a search button on the top right of the forum...if you wanted to, you read an awful lot of threads discussing this issue....and get essentially hundreds of second opinions.

Some people even do the search first, read the answers, and sometimes don't even need to ask anything...but, normally, they find that there's ANOTHER question that was raised in their minds, by what they read, etc....and they do it again, etc.