A lady friend of mine who was living with me at the time had a Grand Cherokee and it was a real POS. Things constantly breaking on it, leaked fluids all the time. She finally moved out. I had two older Jeeps a 51 willys and a 64 Jeep wagoneer. Both were bulletproof and awesome vehicles. I almost bought a 1974 Jeep CJ5 brand new but went with a Toyota Land cruiser instead and I've been with Toyota vehicles ever since. Never a problem of any consequence. It's a shame the Jeep line has gone downhill in such a bad way regarding their reliability. In my book reliability trumps features by a long shot and my 4Runner gives me my number one requirement, reliability for the Long haul. The features it comes with are more than adequate for me.