Re: Drove a 3.7 Jeep Liberty today!

From: AlexReed (alexreed@home.com)
Date: Sat Jun 09 2001 - 16:34:10 EDT


Yeah, the tug of war was great. The Ford Escape didnt even put up a fight. It was
pulled around, it was great!! hehe.....lol.........it still makes me laugh. Too
bad your not in Ga, I have a few on the lot, well in the back for detail that
would fit your needs. Which color do you like? I think the black is sweet, though
silver is cool. Decisions, Decisions......

AR

TommFern@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 6/8/01 8:27:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, alexreed@home.com
> writes:
>
> << I like it, of course I do sell cars so that may affect my opinion. We had
> a training class on the Liberty and they had an area dug out fresh and drove
> a Liberty down and back up the other side. The fourwheel drive system is
> effective and seems to hold its own. The rear cargo area is a bit tight, but
> it is a compact made to take on the Crv and Rav4. Plenty of rear legroom and
> to me it had plenty of get up and go. I have a '99 Dak. 318 manual, so im
> used to power, all in all, I like it.
>
> AR >>
> Yea, I really like it too. I might be biuying one. The wife wants for a
> daily driver. You guys who think its some Suzuki sidekick really need to
> check it out. I went and beat on one for a hour. I then took it the next day
> and was allowed to do some offroading. It really is a Jeep. The 8 inches of
> suspension travel is really nice, very solid. It reminds me of a
> wrangler,only bigger with more utility. I was very surprised by how much hip
> and shoulder room it had,being of manly proportions myself. ;) The backseat
> is even decent. A 5000 tow rating will tow my dak to the track.
> The salesmen had said that they got to go down to the proving grounds and
> try the other SUVs in its class. Apparently they had a tug-of-war with the
> Ford Mistake(I mean Escape),RAV, and the Honda. They said the Liberty just
> drug around the others pretty bad. I know it has upset some of the Jeep
> purists with the IFS,but it is soo not like all the other mall SUVs.
> Tom



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