I felt the same way about questing in WoW for the longest time, still do in fact but it's aliviated by the Questhelper addons ect.

Why would I want to run around in a game 80% of the time instead of utilizing my character and it's abilities? Anyway, my sisters BF got me into wow purely to test out HKN and now Innerspace and I'm actualy having a good time, but without the questhelper I would have quit(again) a long time ago.

So, I'm not looking forward to these vehicles at all, honestly I dont get why they would have them in the game to begin with - same with the chopper mount, like WTF?