Thanks. Yeah, I know it is just a vehicle and I can deal with the loss. My family is way a head of any possesion I might have. The funny thing is, none of them are happy about the loss of the LR4. I've had the GV for almost a month now, and my wife and two of my kids have rode in it once. My other daughter won't even acknowledge we have a new vehicle in the garage. She walks past it every day and has not said one word about it. My family doesn't see this as a personal sacrifice on my part, they just see we lost a fabulous truck.
As far as the Jeep Liberty, yeah I looked at it and priced it out. I went and looked at it too. After loadign it up, the jeep was $4000 more than the GV. I'm sure there are customer incentives that would narrow the gap some. Finacing was about the same at 0%. The two trucks were the ones I narrowed it down too in the end. On paper, they are dimensionaly very close in size, but the Jeep weights in at over 1000 pounds more. It has less ground clearance, has less room inside, drinks more fuelI, doesn't have teh keyless start and looks a little funky. n the end, it came down to how it felt driving, the money, the mileage and the reliability perception. I had a jeep a number of years ago and it wasn't all that reliable.
Rob
