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3. No room around gas pedal - my Boxster has more room, I am only a size 11 and my boots touch the brake pedal when I am on the gas. It looks like they have a manual brake pedal on an auto vehicle.
4. The seats have too much support in the middle, I seem to sit on top of them and not in them - maybe too used to the Boxster as my wife loves the seats
5. Not enough cubby holes for storage - center arm rest box is very small, nothing overhead.
6. Not enough undercarraige protection. My disco had none but the wrangler was much better. On a serious 4x4 I should not have to spend more $$$.
7. No rocker protection/sliders standard - See # 6
8. No standard side air bags - A casualty of building to an under $30k price point.
10. Cheap plastic door handles/locks, wiper stem - I would have paid a few bucks more for real metal. Were they afraid nobody would buy the truck at $31000 base price?
11. Where the hell is the front end? The hood dips enough to make it hard to tell where everything is - the Wrangler was tops in this category and the Disco not too far behind. Practice will make me more confident.
12. Old fashioned temp controls - the disco (and many other modern vehicles) let you set the temp and forget about it. Another under $30k price-point thing.
13. No locking gas cap standard - See # 12
14. Not enough hand-holds - Ditto
16. No place to rest my left arm, door sill is too far away and armrest covered with controls - Disco was no better, Wrangler was perfect.

18. Whip antenna??? Even Land Rover (with their Lucas legacy) topped this

20. Rear seat headrests not removable! Results in very poor rear visibility.
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Have to agree with your highs, but would like to comment about some of the lows:
3. I have to agree. With my dress shoes on, all is ok, but with my tennis shoes on, I hit the edge of the brake pedal often when putting my foot on the accelerator pedal.
4. I agree, but that is the design of the seat. My Vette wrapped around my rear, and I sat low in the seat.
5. Did you pull the insert out of the center console? There is a lot of room under that black insert to put stuff. It's plastic inside so some items might rattle, but something like a cloth CD case should fit. Just noticed this yesterday. For me, this vehicle has a ton more storage in the immediate front passenger area, than either of my last two vehicles. With the Vette, the console was only 2" deep, so it was worthless, and the glove box was filled up with the owner's manual, and there was no place else to put anything, except to throw into the rear hatch area. The Wrangler is not much better, it did have decent size glove box, and I replaced the console with a Tuffy Steel console which gave me a giant console to put stuff in. It did have small compartments in the doors.
6. This one baffles me. I have a '03 Wrangler and this offers more protection than what the Wrangler had from the factory. In fact, it has a front shield that protects the steering, something the Wrangler did not have. I find for most off-roading most people will do, the undercarriage protection is more than adequate, for those like me, I will pay the extra dollars for more protection. Have to remember, at least 50 percent will never see any hard off-roading, so why should they pay for it. One solution would be to include these items on the off-road package, at least the rocker protectors and the undercarriage protection grid.
7. See item 6.
8. Agree they are not available, but not sure if I would want them anyway. Personal....
10. Metal is going out due to having to pass crash tests. Plastic breaks during an impact, metal does not. Can't remember the last vehicle I have had that had actual metal parts like this.
11. Design, but something you should have realized when purchasing the vehicle. It is hard to determine where the front end, ends. I agree, the wrangler was great for me, so long as I remembered I had a Hi-Lift Jack attached to the front bumper. Makes it safer to other parked cars, I seem to park about three feet from other cars and objects. Guess someday I will learn exactly where that front end, ends.
12. Personally, I love the temp controls, the size, the texture, same with the radio. Why? Well, in my Jeep, the aftermarket radio controls were smaller and when bouncing around on rough MI roads, or off-road, I could not change the station since the buttons were too dang small to grab while bouncing. Now these large ones are easy to grab and turn. Some will love 'em, some will hate 'em. (Might have something to do with age too.)
13. Never had a car shipped from the factory with a locking gas cap.
14. It would be nice to have one on the driver's side. Heck there is one for the front passenger, and four in the back. It would have been nice to have one on the A-pillar for the driver; especially a short one.
16. I'm 6.2" and rest my arm on the door rest quite well, as well as resting it on the window sill if open. I would like to have seen the switches moved a bit forward. My Wrangler was ok, but those metal rods, used to hold the plastic window frame in place, were a pain in the elbow at times.
18. For good radio reception in outlying areas, a window antenna needs to have some horizontal pitch, or a super large surface. Those window antennas that do not have this, tend to be weak in outlying areas. Personally, I like the whip antenna. (Although I have to admit, if it fell off I would not miss it, since I only listen to XM.)
20. I agree, would have been nice, or at least the flip-down types that GM has one some vehicles.