It seems to me they created the H3 for the "me too" crowd. I mean buying an H3 tells me you bought it for the name/so-called prestige. Everyone knows you can buy an overall better vehicle for about the same amount of money(X, 4Runner, Tahoe etc).

Two reasons the H3 got that crappy inline-5, for 1 if it had any more power it would creep too far up the food chain and take sales away from the H2 line. 2, and most importantly, people who are buying the H3 aint buying it for the inline-5, in fact they probably could'nt give a rat's ass whats under the hood. it's the name/so-called prestige I mentioned above.

As far as looks, I prefer the H3 over the new X, now I don't prefer it over the old X, you know the good one? :p