Because "decent off road" = "I can navigate someone's overgrown shitpile of a mountain side driveway during mud season with low effort and nearly guaranteed success"
Also it's one of two convertible SUVs on the market so if you want that your options are basically a coin toss.
Because there are lots of places you can legally drive it off road. And driving off road is really fun. He didn't say it's totally illegal to drive off road.