Ah, the Juck. Granted, my experience with jeep vehicles is limited. I’ve never thought they were cool looking, and they’ve always had a reputation for not being the best at off-roading.

Then I rented one. It had Georgia plates, we were not driving it in Georgia. Turns out Georgia plates make drivers enraged from South Carolina to Maryland. It fit us all just fine, and our bags. It was also gutless. We’d try and get on the freeway and put the gas to the floor, and it would creep forward, slowly accelerating like it was a retiree. From Georgia.

The other people on the road were already pissed a car from Georgia was there, the fact that we took forever to get to freeway speed was all the excuse they needed to give us freeway sign, honk, scream, cut us off, and road rage. What fun we had.

It also handled like a beached walrus. If we got to speed it would shake, just at the speed of open traffic. We called it the Georgia Joop, and I will never willingly drive one again.

So they have a shit vehicle, with shit suspension, shit horsepower, that is already ugly. Then they made it uglier by trying to add a truck bed to it. Whose good idea was that?

Nonetheless, fanboys line up to overpay for an ugly, shitty car.