Would be remiss not to point to the excellent work of Michael Paul Smith here-

Never understood the hate for these- I think it’s one of the better automotive expressions of the “Hello, cocaine” era. If I had one I would spend every Saturday driving around the block, listening to Bowie’s “Golden Years” on loop.

Daily driven around our neighborhood in Harrisburg, PA.

I had the immense displeasure of driving a rental Nissan Rouge back and forth across the Mojave Desert in July for a work trip, and can happily report that I would sooner cancel a vacation than be looked in the eye by the Hertz agent and be told that I had to spend another minute behind the wheel of that god awful…

The Rogue is the most heinously under-powered, poorly designed, cheaply built, disconnected-from-reality, and overall disappointing vehicle I’ve ever driven.

I had the profound meh-pleasure of piloting one of these down the pacific coast highway from Seattle to San Francisco. What should have been a glorious, formative driving experience...was still awesome.

Keeping with the spirit of 2016, I have only hate to offer.