It’s unndeniably true.
I sort of noticed it about the Compass that we rented back in the Summer of 2022, when the Dart was in the shop for about a month; that it wanted to be taken out for long drives. I didn’t get the sense, at the time, of the Compass having any consciousness or intelligence, but I certain got the sense that it called for being taken out on long drives, in a manner that I had never previously noticed about any vehicle.
But when we got our first own Jeep last June, I quickly became very much aware that it has a soul of its own, a will of its own, and that in a much clearer way that I had noticed about the Compass, it communicated on a regular basis to me, demands that it be taken out on long drives. It clearly was a living, thinking being, possessed by a powerful spirit of wanderlust.
It’s predecessor, which we got with the insurance money after the first one sank, has a very similar spirit, though it is older, more experienced, and wiser.
On a somewhat related note, I’d like to ask the folks on this forum to help me choose between two pictures that I took today of my Jeep, to submit to a challenge on another forum under the theme “My Ride”. See this thread: