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Originally Posted by bren
Shouldn't have cheeped out with the lower end model when you bought it if that was important to you.  |
Yes ... wasn't so much cheeped out as not aware of the differences ... was my first 4x4 and I didn't know better ... bought it second hand ... I think everything about the purchase was wrong ... petrol not diesel, Quadra-Trac instead of Quadra-Drive ... blah blah blah ... but it has served me well for 10 years.
Would have been nice to know what a higher spec Jeep could do ... but my wife wouldn't let me buy another now ...
I would love a mud loving 4x4 ... but honestly I would need it 5-10 days a year and honestly I am not entirely sure I would want to expose a brand new car to the sort of environment where my "cheap and crappy" Jeep would get stuck ...
As has been said a trillion times, realistically we spend most of our time on the tarmac, and here the X3 excels in performance and economy while maintiaing a 4x4 esk poise, and so realistically I think the X3 suits my more general needs superlatively.