Continuing my search for my second Jeep vehicle (99 Comanche?)

I am still shopping for a second earlier model Jeep vehicle. Due to financial constrains, I may not make the purchase until after the first of the year (unless something really good comes up).

I just ran across a '99 model Comanche. (Photo below.) 4.0l engine, manual transmission (rare around here), winch, bench seat.

Anybody with experience with the Comanche around that year model? I would assume (perhaps mistakenly?) that it'd be similar in many ways to the Cherokee.

Woah! Just realized that he's asking just over $9,000usd for it. Seems way pricey!

Chris said:

$9000 is way too expensive for that. That guy is smoking something!

It's going to be near identical to a Cherokee. My problem with those vehicles is I don't like unibody vehicles for any sort of off-roading

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Yeah. The price was in MXN and I didn't calculate until I had already written the post, then I decided to send it anyway. I don't think I'll even look at it.

I generally don't care for unibody construction, either, but I am willing to make an exception for the Cherokee, mainly because I need more space for cargo and I want something I can work on and that won't cost and arm and a leg to maintain.

I didn't occur to me that this was a unibody. The bed being separate from the cab threw me off of that. I have always said that if it is a unibody, it ain't a real truck.

TJMexico said:

... I didn't occur to me that this was a unibody. The bed being separate from the cab threw me off of that. I have always said that if it is a unibody, it ain't a real truck.

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Just found this. Interesting ...

For the cargo bed, a separate subframe is bolted to the unibody, creating a removable bed system that is characteristic of the Comanche's design. This rear section, which supports the bed, follows a more traditional body-on-frame approach, making the Comanche a hybrid vehicle with a unibody front and a frame-supported rear.

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