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Originally Posted by Maui Nick
Tex, I agree with MountainBlue's second sentence there.
As for the H3 ...
But it comes right down to this:
In terms of on- and off-road usability, the Hummer H3 is the spitting image of Jeep's old XJ Cherokee, except it comes with amenities the folks at AMC/Renault/Chrysler/Daimler-Benz never thought to put on the bottom end of their model range plus a lift kit and better tires. The old XJ vehicles (the Cherokee, Wagoneer and Comanche) were excellent off-road vehicles with a just little basic work --- lift kit, tires and so forth. As I said, the H3 comes with that stuff when you pick it up at the stealership.
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It's waaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy more than a Cheap Cherokee. To lift a Cherokee to take 33" or 35s as some are doing, tires, makes it into a tippy rollover prone nightmare sidehilling. No way, no how can you drive a Cherokee that's got 35s on it at anywhere near the sidehill angle. No way that it'd handle even remotely as well on the twisties either. You'd have to mutilate the body of a Cherokee to get the low stance, the clearance, AND the fitment of the parts an H3 has. A Cherokee is a cheap bucket of jangly bits compared to the H3. They're ok off-road, but just that. How 'bout that really neato 4:1 tcase in the H3? Call up Advance Adapters, do the other work required to fit it, and check out the price for THAT!
Last time I checked, puttin' in 4.56 gears front and rear wasn't cheap either. Oh yeah, an e-locker in the rear would be just a little sumpn-sumpn that never made it into a Cherokee. Ever compare the steering and suspension parts between the two? How about the frame? Nahh, all that in a rig that gets 20mpg on a good day comes only in one package: the H3.