As the owner of a Frontier, I'd say I'd rather have the Xterra offroad
than a Liberty. Having had experience with the Honda Passport (Rodeo)
I'd say forget it. I'd take a last generation 4Runner over all of them
and an XJ over the lot if the offroading got serious.

David C. Moller wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 20:07:26 GMT, "Nathan W. Collier" <abuse@A0L.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>>" Paul Brogren" <pibrogren@msn.com> wrote in message
>>news:bib2ic$75uv7$1@ID-190695.news.uni-berlin.de...
>>
>>>Wonder how the Isuzu Rodeo would size up with the X-Terra?
>>
>>im not really sure, as i have no experience with the rodeo. i think the
>>xterra is about the best IFS compact suv on the market, or at least of the
>>ones ive driven. i hope the grand cherokee will do as good when its
>>equipped with IFS in '05.
>
>
> I dunno man... the xterra is simply the Nissan Frontier with an SUV
> body and clever marketing. I'd take the Liberty over the xterra, but I
> already know your feelings on the Liberty hehehe. As many drawbacks as
> the Liberty may have compared to other Jeeps, I think the Liberty
> would easily take the xterra (or any of the other compact SUV's) in an
> offroad comparison. Course that being said, I'd rather have the
> Cherokee back in production. Haven't been following the thread, so
> apologies if we weren't talking about offroad comparisons etc.
>
> Dave
> http://home1.gte.net/res0p2es/david/index.htm

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