B-W-L... "How Chrysler has been able to continue selling them without a major safety redisign is a mystery to me."

Yuppies.

Yup. Lots of cash and no brains. How anyone can(could) pay the price they want(ed) for a sardine tin like the Jeep is amazing innit? And, when I was investigating the "new" Jeep Wrangler, the dealership just up the street had 21 of them on the lot, of which only one had auto tranny. Apparently, yuppies don't know squat about 4 wheelin. Nor about flies... not one had air conditioning.

Like I wanna be messin with a clutch while swattin skeeters and blackflies and bite-em-no-seeums and deer flies and... of course, most had Serious Stupid Satellite Radio and a CD changer and a half dozen speakers and....