Ar I am having this conversation with my mom right now by text. The context is that she is at a dealership looking for a new vehicle, an SUV to replace her awesomely badass retired California Highway Patrol car that has 200k miles on it. :-( She is basically texting me the vehicles and I'm looking them up on edmunds for her.
Mom: What about a 2012 Jeep Liberty?
Me: It says cons are outdated transmission, poor fuel economy, sloppy on-road handling, subpar interior materials, sluggish engine, and poor headlight illumination. It literally says "when Patrick Henry famously declared 'give me liberty or give me death, he was not talking about this vehicle."
Mom: lol I like it though.
UUGGGHHHH she is obsessed with having a jeep for her commute, because snow. Granted, she lives and works in the buffalo snowbelt and it is common in the winter to have 6 feet of snow fall inside 24 hours. On those days she WORKS FROM HOME. She wants to spend less than $10,000 and get an AWD SUV that drives like a car, has low mileage, is good on gas, has high safety ratings, and "isn't a Honda, toyota, Kia, Hyundai, or ford." For fucks sake.