30 YEARS AGO – SEP 1993
Jeep made a return to the Aussie market with the XJ Cherokee, with Geoff Middleton taking one for its first Aussie test by a 4WD magazine. While some car-based mags had given the Jeep a bit of a pasting for its leaf springs and clunky engine, we weren’t so critical, but this Jeep was showing its age by the time it got to Australia… and its leaf springs weren’t a highlight of this test, while the engine ‘has plenty of power for load hauling, hill climbing, touring or towing’.
Middo also took the latest model Daihatsu Rocky for a test run, being more than impressed with its suspension set-up which featured an all-new five-link coil suspension at the rear-end. The 2.8-litre engine had adequate power but the
