I just bought my wife a new ‘18 pathfinder SL in November. For the price and equipment/tech it blew everything else out of the water.
Biggest gripes are: CVT, orange backlit (drives me nuts) and it’s heavy.
But it’s the best value, by far. Also, it can freakishly tow 6000lbs now. That gave my confidence in the CVT reliability, not that I’ll tow with it.
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age."
-H.P. Lovecraft