Dear Fiat, Please Don't Ruin Jeep...

Here's your chance to sound off on what you'd like to see for the future of Jeep. Fiat has said they're not going to mess with Jeep's core character, but for sure there will be changes coming. Hopefully some for the better. What would like to see Fiat do for Jeep, or NOT do?  

Jeep's are American vehicles. Americans love our freedom. The latest offerings from Jeep(excluding the Wrangler) have been too watered down and "car like" for them to be called Jeeps. Not exactly giving us the freedom to go anywhere. I remember reading a CEO or high level executive for Chrysler a few years ago saying "Does every Jeep vehicle need to be able to drive over the Rubicon Trail? No, I don't think they do." or something along those lines. That was where jeep started slipping. The Compass? has a hard time with speedbumps. The Patriot? can't get out of its own way. The Commander? Damn them for building a pile of crap in the Cherokee's image. BUILD JEEPS! Not a damn Mercedes with a different body and INDEPENDENT(!) FRONT AND REAR SUSPENSION(new Grand Cherokee). This does not a Jeep make. Give us back our solid axles and get rid of the damn mall crawlers. Build Jeeps for America, not Europe. We like rally racing, but it's not as huge here as it is in Europe. We like trail riding, muddin',and rockcrawlin.
If you're going to base your designs off anything not American, look at what they do in Finland and Iceland or Thailand. Give us vehicles we have a choice as to how mild or hardcore we want it to be and keep it simple. And bring back the Cherokee and get rid of the Liberty. Give us an offering that will take us places a person in a Prius can't get to. Go to Easter Jeep Safari, Tierra Del Sol, a run over the Rubicon, any off road park and take a look at what we are doing with our Jeeps. The new Grand Cherokee wouldn't make it in a lot of these places and nobody is going to take something they paid that much for and go wheel it. Bring in engineers who are off roaders, or better make the guys from Skunk Works the lead designers for Jeeps. You want to build cars? Have the guy who designed the Compass do that. Get Jeep back to what it was from the beginning. A go anywhere, do anything vehicle that is fairly, easily modified by the owner for his or her wants and needs. America(at least Jeep owners) will welcome you with open arms. Keep going the way they were before and your sales will dry-up quickly.