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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 02:47 PM
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I would take my 95 jeep cherokee over the 2011 grand cherokees any day
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Bustedknuckle
^^ KJ's are a flop unfortunately. Sure there are quite a few lifted, and theres even KJ Overlanders Club, but overall, not many people are choosing them for a build. Infact, Rustys Offroad is discontinuing it's KJ lift kits. I personally like them, and if they came with a real axle and a real motor, I would own one.

Be interesting to see what happens to the KKs when we have a few more years of em. The KJs, maybe not. My point stands that when they get more years on them and the prices fall, people will lose the argument of "overpriced," at least.

I WOULD like em to not be IFS but honestly the more I look at the KK the more I like what I see, even for the price new.
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 02:59 PM
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i dont like the majority of the new jeeps and i got really angry with the new jeep commercial that said after so many years the answer to jeeps evoloution is the giant turd conpass or whatever it said ive seen them around town and they look like a cousin of the subaru outback or pt cruiser or one of those stupid things i really dont like the direction jeep is headed in if you want one of their new vehicles it HAS to b an effing wrangler
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 09:44 PM
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Even the new 2011 Wranglers look almost like a hummer now. Maybe the Jeep manufacturer got tired of the compete with GM Hummer and designed them to look alike. http://autovariouscar.com/wp-content...gler-pic-2.jpg

Isn't Hummer being discontinued? I heard pontiac is too.
I'd take this Wrangler over the new ones anytime.
http://images02.olx.com/ui/1/55/23/365223_1.jpg
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Old Mar 27, 2011 | 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Acesnines
Be interesting to see what happens to the KKs when we have a few more years of em. The KJs, maybe not. My point stands that when they get more years on them and the prices fall, people will lose the argument of "overpriced," at least.

I WOULD like em to not be IFS but honestly the more I look at the KK the more I like what I see, even for the price new.
Speaking with Rusty, he predicts (and I completely agree) WJ's are gonna be the new XJ hot ticket item when they get cheap enough. He said as it stands, he can't stock enough long arm WJ kits.
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 10:14 PM
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Does anyone else not like that jeep is now seems to be focused on luxury? And I'm not a fan of the electronic 4X4 switch.
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 10:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Stephen102938
Does anyone else not like that jeep is now seems to be focused on luxury? And I'm not a fan of the electronic 4X4 switch.
I dont like the new luxury thing either, and electronic 4x4 is cool while it still works!!!!
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 10:22 PM
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I kinda like the new JKs. My friend convinced the Chrysler dealership he was going to buy a 2011 Grand, so he could test drive one
Him and the test drive guy wanted to see how it does off road, so he took it out to our little playground a few miles from my house to climb some hills. Even with street tires it did near as well as our XJs without the hill climb assist, and with, it did better than the XJs do with street tires. Of course hill climbs isn't like crawling rocks or mudding. The WK will always look like a minivan to me.
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 10:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Acesnines
Can you wheel the newer Jeeps? Definitely! Are they more expensive? Sure. What was the sticker price on your Jeep when it was new?

Give the new jeeps 10, 15, 20 years and you'll be buying them just as cheap and then getting 3rd party parts to wheel them.

http://fourwheeler.automotive.com/20...all/index.html





Yeah, they're expensive as hell now. Since when has Jeep ever been cheap? Surplus government Jeeps in the 50s or 60s?
some soccer moms jeep liberty will be a sweet future project in 10-15 years i love how they look. as for the 2011 stuff it looks like some other luxury car. jeeps arent any different than a lot of other vehicles out there especially when they start coming with ifs
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Gmaster

I dont like the new luxury thing either, and electronic 4x4 is cool while it still works!!!!
Hell ya. Just like power windows lol.
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 11:21 PM
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Power windows, please I am afraid to roll down my windows, They might stay down.
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Old Mar 28, 2011 | 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Nemesissparadise
Power windows, please I am afraid to roll down my windows, They might stay down.
And that is the reason I have manual locks & windows. And you would really have to mess up to lock ur keys in ur car.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 12:24 AM
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"...However, major changes were underway with a new executive, Wolfgang Bernhard, who was known as a "cost-slasher" nicknamed "whirlwind", came from Mercedes-Benz to turn around Chrysler. "One of the first moves Bernhard made when he came to Chrysler in 2000 was to help kill the Jeep Cherokee, an aging, somewhat bland SUV." Thus, the (XJ) Cherokee line was replaced in 2002 by the Jeep Liberty (KJ) , although it is called the "Cherokee" in most foreign markets...."
-Wikepedia

And here lies the reason behind the death of the xj and birth of girly jeeps.
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Old Mar 29, 2011 | 12:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Stephen102938
And that is the reason I have manual locks & windows. And you would really have to mess up to lock ur keys in ur car.

Yea I bought my vehicle used tho, obviously so I got what it had I would have preferred manual windows/locks and anything else I could
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Old Apr 2, 2011 | 07:32 PM
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I viewed a Jeep KKs, AKA Liberty 2011, and they look almost like a updated XJ of what it would look like in today. http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&q...w=1259&bih=823

It really looks like the Dodge version too SUV, not sure what its called.
http://www.autodesign-review.info/im...odge-nitro.jpg

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