She Appears in "The Wonderful World Of The Hecks".
Mary Birdsong as Marlene, Rusty's ex-wife.Jerry Van Dyke as Tag Spence, Frankie's father.Marsha Mason as Pat Spence, Frankie's mother.She Appears in "The Potato" and "The Carpool". Rachel Dratch as Principal Barker, Brick's middle-school principal.Brian Doyle-Murray as Don Ehlert, Frankie's ex-boss.Alphonso McAuley as Hutch, Axl's football teammate and best friend at college.Brock Ciarlelli as Brad, Sue's ex-boyfriend and current classmate.John Gammon as Darrin, Axl's friend and Sue's ex and later boyfriend.Beau Wirick as Sean Donahue, Axl's best friend.Galadriel Stineman as Cassidy, Axl's ex-girlfriend who broke up with him when they went to different colleges.Ted Goodwin, Frankie's over-friendly boss who is oblivious to sarcasm You don’t need me to tell you I get much worse than that in my old big-block 454 Suburban, but it’s also much better than the V8-powered Lexus GX, too, which in my own experience struggles to break 17 or 18 mpg on the highway with a load of passengers and cargo. I averaged 23.5 miles per gallon on my 1,495-mile adventure. The Palisade is EPA-rated at 19 city, 24 highway and 21 combined. The third and final road trip bit of importance I’ll comment on is efficiency. Everyone agreed they were happier inside the Hyundai than my own Lexus. All of these things work together to make Hyundai’s biggest utility vehicle an excellent choice for piling up the miles. From the driver’s seat, the Palisade feels calm and collected, with a comfortable ride and good steering feel.
I polled my passengers - which included my wife, her brother and his wife - and received positive notes from all regarding the ride, spaciousness, quietness and seat comfort. I therefore feel well qualified to proclaim that none of those big’uns is as comfortable as the Palisade at 70 miles per hour winding through the hills, tree-lined backroads and coastline. I’ve put tens of thousands of miles on the Lexus GX 460. I’ve done sizable road trips in several recent models, including the Chevy Tahoe, Ford Expedition, GMC Yukon, Nissan Armada and Toyota Sequoia. Granted, my own Suburban is an old one the latest models ride and handle several orders of magnitude better than my ’93 K2500. Here’s where the Palisade blows a traditional body-on-frame SUV out of the water. The second most important need for road-trip duty is comfort. The $64,000 question (okay, fine … maybe a few bucks less than that) on my mind: How much better is a modern crossover for long road trips than an old-school SUV? I could have taken my current-generation Lexus GX - much more modern than my GMC but still a traditional body-on-frame SUV - but I wanted to experience crossover life. This wouldn't represent the first long trip our Palisade has been on, but it was my first taste of its usefulness. My current vintage 1993 GMC Suburban is quite adept at racking up the miles, and it boasts plenty of virtues that make it a solid road tripper.īut when the option to use Autoblog’s long-term Hyundai Palisade for a weeklong trip to the beaches and sunny climes of South Carolina presented itself, I jumped at the chance. I fully understand the appeal my family has owned several of them over the years, starting with a 1992 Nissan Patrol that we bought while living in Central America, moving to a Mitsubishi Montero, then a Lexus GX 460 before settling on the largest I’ve ever parked in my own driveway.
Big SUVs are extremely popular choices for long-haul road trips, and for good reason.
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