Many people think that for a off road vehicle you need a big powerful vehicle. True more horsepower and big knobby tires is the norm for off roading, but can you drive that everyday with the same comfort of a car? A good off road vehicle only needs to be light and agile, which the Patriot is. granted your not going to be doing any mud bogging or rock crawling but if you wanted a vehicle for that you wouldn't be on this site.
Yes the Patriot is based off of a car platform, but the platform is sturdy enough and tough enough to tackle off roading, and trail driving. I spent two years looking at all the different vehicles out there and the first one that I said "I could see me driving that," was the Patriot.
I'm not a four door car driving kind of guy either. I've driven Muscle Cars and 4X4 trucks my entire life. The Patriot is a great vehicle, you can drive it across the country and take any trails you come across along the way. Before the Patriot, I would drive my "Good Gas Mileage" Car on long drives (A Chevy Malibu with over 400HP) that got 12 MPG's on the highway. If I came across a gravel dirt road Id say to my wife "we should have drove the truck" and she would just roll her eyes and say "I ain't riding 1200 miles in that uncomfortable thing just so you can have 5 miles of fun"
Now with Patriot I have both comfort and fun. Good gas mileage and off road capability. And something else, which if the Patriot didn't have I wouldn't have given it a second glance.,"The Look," allow me to elaborate. When I look a modern vehicles I get sick, they all look the same. I can't tell the difference between some brands it is getting so bad that even Japanese cars look like American Cars now. And SUV's are the worst at copying each other. Jeep is Jeep it looks like a Jeep it is square boxy and beautiful, two round head lights spaced by a slotted grill that just seems to smile at you. I LOVE IT!
