My housemate was the same "Why would you ever want to buy a HMMWV, what a piece of junk..." etc.. Then (20 years after she got out of the Army) she borrowed one for an American Legion parade... then she borrowed it for another parade.. then another and another... it went up for sale and she comes to me and says "Hey you always wanted a HMMWV, maybe you should buy it".. at which point she explains it's a hell of a lot of fun, much more fun then when she was in and HAD to be somewhere, at a specific time, and someone else had to maintain it and never seemed to do it properly..
LOL half the things she tells me are "normal", I've fixed and in her words "Wow, this runs better then any of the HMMWVs in our unit." (She was in from 1992-2000).