Their loss. Full aluminum engine, geardriven transfer case, offset drop out 3rd member pumpkins, short wheel base. More power, transfercase gears and lockers, and you are making other rigs look STOOPID off road.

Only bummer is the anemic 1.3, the effectively .6:1 reduction in the transfer case (low range over high range) and no power steering. But sold new for less than 10 grand, what can you expect?

Lockers are cheap for them, birfield rings help save the front axles, and the cheapest transfer case gearset drops your high range a little (12%?) and low range all the way to 4.16:1 for an effective drop between high and low range of about 2.6:1.

Great little rigs.