Yea this had been discussed many times before. Those of us with many miles of daily use on our H3's have various opinions. In short the H3 is setup to meet some pretty strict offroad requirements that other SUVs only pretend to. So there is a cost to pay in space utilization, gas mileage, weight and onroad performance when compared to the other car-based SUV's/minivan substitutes. But the H3 is well engineered to still have adequate on road performance and decent comfort.