I don't know what the magazine numbers for ground clearance are - but my GF's liberty scrapes and bumps over everything (things that stock Xterras have NO problem with) when we go to the offroad park - it's got horrendous clearance for real world use.

I'm sure some of that is because it is an '03 - and Jeep suspension-lowered the KJ by an inch starting in '03 to make the crash-test people happy.

When I bought my X in '00 the two main contenders were the Xterra and the normal (i.e. not 'Grand') Cherokee.

Same as Zen, I thought the Jeep just didn't feel very well put together... the center console was thin and wobbly - stuff like that. Of course, at the time I didn't know diddly about solid axles, differentials, or offroad capability - so this was more of a 'regular onroad driver' type of evaluation - but the X won the "feel" test hands down.