I've got (well, wife's car) a 2005 4WD with the V8 and love the thing. It's the first vehicle I've ever owned that I can say I'll never sell it and will drive it till it dies. We've only got 70k on the clock, but zero problems except having to replace warped brake rotors at 30k (warrantied). It's got great power and is great off road.

The V8 4WD is full-time 4WD, so our fuel mileage sucks at 14mpg in town and 18 mpg highway (hand calculated). But, I didn't buy it for it's mpg.


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