Motortrend is notoriously unreliable in their ratings, especially where truck-based vehicles are concerned.
They themselves have admitted that they place weight on items that only the few testers like and "think" they know what the average consumer wants.
The H3 wasn't designed for the "average consumer" as you explained it. It was designed, as was the H2, to be a mix of off-road prowess with refined on-road handling. Motortrend's definition of an SUV is a mall-hopping grocery-getter.
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