What jeep really needs is a long, 4 door wrangler.
In the world market for 4x4's 'jeep' is a generic term
for a 4x4, but actual Jeeps are a minor player.
Toyota Landcruiser Nissan Patrol and Mitsubishi montero/pajero are
the preferred, durable machines.

Here in Haiti you cannot even buy a wrangler from the Jeep dealer.
They sell Liberty and Grand. The Toyota Land Cruiser II is the
best utility car you can buy. Land Rover is good too, but expensive.

That Wrangler Safari that daimler/chrysler showed a few years back
is what they should do for the real market for real off road cars.

They should have keptthe xj in production as a utility car alongside
the civilianized Liberty.


Monte Castleman wrote:
> I had a chance to chew the rag with the Jeep people at the Minnesota
> State Fair, and one of the guys mentioned that Jeep was coming out with
> a new vehicle named the Cherokee. This will be a big vehicle with a 3rd
> seat, obviously designed to compete with the Ford Expedition. Anyone
> know anything about this. It seems Jeep is becoming more and more like
> any other SUV maker.
>
> Also, I asked if there would ever be a Liberty with full
> instrumentation. The sales guy had to look to see that the Liberty on
> display didn't have a voltmeter and oil gauge. This seems to be a trend
> in smaller SUVs nowdays. I also pointed out that the Liberty was really
> too small to sleep in, and he didn't have much to say.