We Don't Like: Dystopian doors and seats and the inability to carry anything. You're looking at an SUV that really impressed our judges in some ways, but lost points thanks to a lack of fold-flat second-row seats to allow owners to carry big stuff inside the car and traditional rear doors to permit strapping stuff to the roof. Don't miss all the latest Car, Truck and SUV of the Year content at MotorTrendAwards.com! And the 2017 Motor Trend SUV of the Year is... See All 13 Photos These gadgety, form-over-function errors cost the Model X dearly in our engineering excellence and performance of intended function criteria. The power front doors and the Rube Goldberg-esque falcon-wing rear doors both proved glitchy, occasionally striking adjacent cars and once peeling off a piece of its own rear quarter-window trim. Besides neutering the vehicle's utility (prompting the quip "the U in SUV is silent here"), the mono-post seats rattle and don't adjust comfortably. They lack inboard armrests, too. Even that big windshield, which is super cool for stargazing, turned the Tesla into a convection oven on a sunny desert day. "Everything that makes it great can be found on the Model S," Jonny Lieberman said. "Everything that's new for the X is a gimmick or doesn't work properly 100 percent of the time." See All 13 Photos Others were no kinder. "It's a Model S wearing a parade float wrapped in a mishmash of ideas that should've stayed on the drawing board," Scott Evans said. It's a crying shame. The P90D's performance makes it the Lamborghini LM002 of our day. Nearly everything else about the way one approaches, interacts with, and drives any Model X seems certain to provide a perpetual source of surprise and delight. 2017 Motor Trend SUV of the Year Contenders