Hmmmm. I'm just the opposite.

Soon after acquiring my '08, on a balmy warm sunny day, I decided to test what would be involved in swapping the spare out on the road. Even if I imagined I didn't have to deal with rusted bolts/nuts, I thought GEEZ this would be crazy at night in the rain or even worse in the winter, so I decided the spare was a complete waste of time.

Once the spare and the mount were off, along with a few other changes, I decided it looked less Jeepy or Jeepish or Jeep-like, whatever the proper adjective, and more in line with the look of the H2 family.

To each his own.