Welcome to XOC. Glad that you got an X. I too am the same. I orginally bought the X for my wife as I hated the thing and never wanted one but then I got it for her and then drove it for the last 2 weeks that I was in school and loved it. I am now waiting until next year about this time and will be trading up to the 4X4 as well. I too am going to be waiting for relability reports on the '05 as well. If I don't like it then I'll get me an '04.