Thought I'd post some experience of our trip over the last few weeks. We spent a week in NYC, rented a car from there, drove to Quebec, Saint-Hippolyte, Montreal, Niagra Falls, Boston, Rockport, Salem, New Haven, then back to NYC where we currently are.
I booked the cheapest car but they upgraded me to a Camry which was actually quite nice - 2.5 NA engine and torque converter automatic which was much nicer than the usual modern cheap car combo of small turbo engine + CVT transmission. Bizarre spec though - electric drivers seat but manual passenger seat, adaptive cruise and high beam assist but no blind spot monitoring and a traditional ignition key. I drove it 2404 miles in total and averaged 41MPG which was a mix of city driving and highway driving at 85-90.
I did what I always do when driving in places I don't regularly drive in: just followed the faster drivers and used Waze which allowed us to make pretty good time. I think my luck may have ran out this time though as I didn't know that New York state has introduced white grand cherokee camera cars that they park next to the roadwork vehicles in construction zones. They conveniently look exactly the same as the cars the construction teams use and I'm pretty sure every car in front of me and several in the inside lane also got caught - we'd all slowed down for the construction zone but definitely not enough. I'll have to watch out more in construction zones in future which I guess is the point - it must be making them an absolute fortune as well.
This is what they look like:
Apart from that, everything went really well - there wasn't a huge amount of snow which was good as the car had summer tyres on it. This year we're planning a roadtrip around Europe, but in 2025 we want to drive from Mexico to Alaska over a period of around 3 months so this was a very short trip in comparison!