His opinion definitely needs to be taken with a grain of salt. He strikes me as more of a Jeep guy.Seems to me he just needed more time behind the wheel. Plus, there are ergonomic preferences which have little or no impact on the way the truck is used. I think he would have been happier driving an AWD Denali or an SSV with the transfer case set to Auto.
Oh, and his mpg claims, his department must've been using recycled gasoline or something, even my wife gets better mileage!