Thread: Who makes the best used SUV for under $10K? Range Rover? Land Cruiser? Other?
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Old 03-03-2002, 11:18 PM
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I've read quite a bit about the reliability of the 4.0 liter straight 6 in the Jeep Cherokees.

I also can highly recommend the Toyota 4-runner, but I caution that they don't depreciate very much, thus expensive.

The Nissan Pathfinders are wonderful SUV's. What's more is they are unibody, not body on frame, so they ride more carlike and creak-free. Nissan's also depreciate more than Toyota's so they are a better used car buy.

If it was my money and I needed 4WD, I'd buy a Subaru wagon instead. A Subaru Outback has more interior room than a Ford Explorer or a Toyota 4 Runner. SUV's are dinosaurs. They have no sport and little utility. They drive terrible on the highway. They get terrible gas mileage. They also have marginal crash ratings, by and large. I know they have larger mass, but they don't have great crash protection engineered in them. Did you see the crash tests of the Ford 150's? They safety cages completely collapsed in off-set crash testing. Very scary.
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