But they have badges! 😆

Yeah, it's hard to escape that opinion in my own mind.

I try to avoid sweeping generalisations like "american cars are shit" but it just seems to be born out so repetitively that it seems like a truism.

Jeep used to have a certain design aesthetic for their short wheel base models which has been great for decades. But reliability has never matched it and they haven't been able to transfer it to their other models like the cherokee.

In the Australian offroad scene you never see anything american. The guys building the most capable machines are starting with toyotas and nissans.

Stellantis. Not even once.

I own an old SUV from back in the day when SUV directly decent vehicles, what are the best feelings in the world is a driving around a Jeep or land rover that has managed to get stuck in a farmer's field, and here I am in suburbanite vehicle driving circles around them.

I always want to punch a jeep owner in the genitals when they climb partially up a pile of snow and end up in two fucking spots somehow when they could have just parked like someone who isn't a complete dickhead.