On Wed, October 6, 2004 2:35 pm, Josh Battles said:
>
> On another note, I did see one of the new stretched out
> Wranglers the other day and I kinda liked it. It looked a little weird
> with
> the rear of it being so long, but it didn't look bad at all. Kinda caught
> me off guard though, I thought to myself "cool jeep.....wait? WTF? that's
> one of those new ones! cool."
Yes, I'm a big fan of that idea. IMHO, the stretch TJ is the true
successor to the XJ legacy: a useable (if a bit smallish) cargo area
combined with outstanding off-road ability. The regular TJ never had any
cargo space to speak of if you wanted to carry more than two people. The
longer wheelbase might hurt the breakover a bit, but on the plus side I
think it'll actually make it easier to lift due to drivetrain angles. (I
haven't read any field reports on lifting them yet, so I might be wrong on
that point.)
All they need to do is bring over the diesel from the Liberty and put it
in a stretch TJ and I'd be very interested. As long as I'm dreaming, they
can add on a Rubicon package for me as well :-).
-- Jason Bleazard http://www.bleazard.net Burlington, Ontario his: '95 Dakota Sport 4x4, 3.9 V6, 5spd, Reg. Cab, white hers: '01 Dakota Sport 4x4, 4.7 V8, Auto, Quad Cab, black
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