You know there are obstacles that short wheel base is better on and then there are those that long wheel base are better on. I prefer wheel bases towards the longer side. It has far more storage space as well. Plus I think that it looks better than the standard wheel base. Then again I was a Scrambler fan way before it became the cool rig.


As for power, it has the 4.0........can you upgrade it? Yes, I just got done reading an article where they can squeeze darn near 385 horses out of a 4.0 Why though? I just don't get why folks want to stuff some big 8 cylinder engine in their rock crawler. it's all about keeping it light and most importantly gearing. Then there is to much gearing. Sometimes to super low is to low. Believe me this baby got some gearing. 4Low in first gear is pretty much useless other than flat surfaces. It so freaking low I can get out go around the vehicle and climb in the passenger seat. I haven't tried it but I would bet that I could low-crawl quicker than the rig moves.

As for being sorry for "big red"...don't I couldn't be happier. You know you truely don't realize how badly beatin up a rig is until you get a new one and you have to move the old one around the drive way periodically. My Passport is just flatout worn out and it just makes absolutely no financial sense to get it back to street/trail capable. It would just cost far to much. It served me well though for 10 years and 200,000 miles. Cost me a huge amount of money to keep it running but it was there......well most of the time anyway.

New idea's for personalized plate.........ZUBICON, DRKSIDE, ZUKEYPR, ?????????????????