[drunken monkey]

well, i think, from the perspective of someone who works in the design industry that there is good design and bad design and in most cases, i tend to look at cars too in that respect. sure any car will have something good to say about it but i'm not convinced that is reason enough to ignore the bad points. My most cited examples when ever i'm part of a crit panel is that of the VW beetle. Fundementally, as a car it is a well engineered and pretty reliable and well built machine. Unfortunately, as a design, it is old and lazy, being essentially a golf with a new body clunked on.
as you should know new body = new loads, new stresses etc etc and yet surprisngly, pretty much nothing was done to the underlying golf chassis to make up for the changes. Fundementally, while the car is without doubt a well made thing, it is in my eyes, a flawed car and a piece of lazy/bad designing.

it isn't all down to being closed minded as you seem to live branding all people with.

one thing that i have always ended up with in these discussion is that ultimately we all have freedom to buy whatever the heck we like, even if it is totally inappropriate for the eventual use (although there is more argument for driving a 911 in the city than there is for driving a range rover in the city).
then again, doesn't that freedom also extend to us being able to not like any particular car for any reason?