Unibody offroaders...

[Andy Steiner]

... are awaiting your apology.

re: http://jalopnik.com/5723558//gallery/gallery/2

"Serious off-roaders will scoff at a so-called SUV with unibody construction, but we have a funny feeling they're not the new Explorer's target audience."


Andy Steiner
"Purple is the new chrome"

Member:
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The above is my reply to the author ([email protected]) of the article in URL I referenced. I also included only 4 photos (in case their corporate email system blocks messages that are too large.) Please include a few of your own.

I honestly believe that the author could greatly benefit from a massive email carpet bomb from a great many serious offroaders who wheel our beloved unibody Cherokees. So please pass this message on to your friends and your clubs. You're welcome to use my comments or create your own, but please make sure to include the URL and his scurrilous remark. Needless to say, remove my name, tag line and club affiliations so you can insert your own.


Thank you,
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[01greenxjsport]

done!

heres mine:

This is in response to your article called Rust In Peace: Ten Cars That Died In 2010 and is in regards to this quote "Serious off-roaders will scoff at a so-called SUV with unibody construction". I own a Jeep Cherokee which is a unibody vehicle that can out perform any other "so called" superior body over frame vehicle. Many offroad enthusiasts are proud cherokee owners and use them as their rigs. You should definately do your research before making such an ignorant statement. I think you owe every Cherokee owner an apology.

Andy Crabtree

Member:
NC4x4

 

[01greenxjsport]

done!

heres mine:

This is in response to your article called Rust In Peace: Ten Cars That Died In 2010 and is in regards to this quote "Serious off-roaders will scoff at a so-called SUV with unibody construction". I own a Jeep Cherokee which is a unibody vehicle that can out perform any other "so called" superior body over frame vehicle. Many offroad enthusiasts are proud cherokee owners and use them as their rigs. You should definately do your research before making such an ignorant statement. I think you owe every Cherokee owner an apology.

Andy Crabtree

Member:
NC4x4

 

[YJ-GENRAL]

i get why you might be upset about what he said considering your xj owners and they are unitbodies... BUT he is talking about the explorer going from frame on body to unitbody construction... nobody wheels explorers anyways unless they are stolen...frame or no frame

"serious off-roaders" scoff at explorers anywyas...cherokees have earned their scruff

 

[thechief86]

i dunno, i used to wheel with a guy in an esploder on tons and 40's, and it did pretty good.....

 

[wingnutooa]

i tried to go wheeling wit 40's once but i got pulled over and he took what i had left...said something about an open container...

 

[JeepAddict85]

i get why you might be upset about what he said considering your xj owners and they are unitbodies... BUT he is talking about the explorer going from frame on body to unitbody construction... nobody wheels explorers anyways unless they are stolen...frame or no frame

"serious off-roaders" scoff at explorers anywyas...cherokees have earned their scruff

I disagree. lots of people wheel explorers, I used to as well.

http://www.explorerforum.com/

define serious...

 

[shortxjdoug]

uhh so im supposed to be pissed because someone trash talked a unibody? i trash talk toyotas every day but theres no email campaign filling my inbox (40's on a birfield axle.... pshhh idiots )...... sorry i see no mention of a jeep anywhere in his article and im putting it in the i dont really care column for the day......

 

[256offroad]

i see where hes coming from... i cant keep my stupid unibody together.

id wheel a framed jeep any day of the week.

i prefer to daily drive/mild wheel an xj. the stuff ive been doing to my jeep has caused some serious headache. i dont want to have to plate every square inch of the unibody for every new xj i wheel.

ive got stiffeners, cage tie ins, sliders, bumpers, big flat belly skid and it still creaks as bad as an old person. heck my front frame rails are so far un even one side of my radiator sits about 1.5" off the frame. which caused a big headache when trying to build the bumper.