Right. Looks to me like a Cherokee and a 4door wrangler had a baby. Idk what's not to like

Robert Cowan jeep xj will

Love my '99 xj!

Robert Cowan apparently you’ve never heard of the land cruiser, Land Rover, ETC

Dude.. Im sorry but a 4x4 is way more offroad capable than an awd. Going into any offroad situation with 4x4 engaged can be a risky one. Experienced offroaders know that a high amount of situations are better off entered in rwd, and if you start slowing down, you engage 4x4. In fact youll notice that the high majority of awd vehicles are actually not meant for offroad at all. Just about any jeep truly intended for off road is a 4x4. Most of the time in awd only 2 or 3 wheels are engaged anyway, the reasons the suburban had a harder time getting up/down 1. Heavier overall, suspension, drivetrain, motor, chassis, the body is pure steel 2.its much longer 3. Its torquier, but with all the excess weight of a heavy suv going up a steep hill its getting robbed of about 50 percent power. Basically all im saying is that the jeep is originally intended for on road purpose, and all the things you named off that the 4x4 was for is more for awd.

You do realize that the Jeep is a true 4x4 and not just awd right? Piece of​ It has front and rear lockers, the suburban does not so it's not a true 4x4 unless you install lockers yourself (mine had a rear locker but a front LS). I owned a 91 suburban with 35's and a 6" lift, that was built for Offroad use. I had to make it capable for off road use. I own a HEMI Jeep. It drives All 4 wheels, on the ground or not. The suburban with the stock drive train drives 2 wheels, thats it, and if 1 or 2 come off the ground, your done. The Jeep is dramatically more capable offroad and has more power and torque by far. Bone stock the Jeep can go almost anywhere my Suburban went more comfortably with better mileage. 

My bad, i didnt even realize the commander was true 4x4 until i looked it up yesterday. For some reason i thought it was an awd :/ not sure why.

The Z71 Tahoe is great off road. Its hard to believe that Suburban is a 4x4...

+James Feragola the suburban had more torque

Quadradrive 2 (at least these years Commanders and Grand Cherokees) have e-lockers front and rear muck like a Rubicon package Wrangler. You just can't select them manually, the computer activates them automatically.

when was the suburban or tahoe (only introduced as this body style in the early 90s) EVER AN OFFROAD VEHICLE?? they were introduced in the 30s as people movers, continued to be people movers thought the 2014 models. go figure they turned their people mover into a family car

A limited slip g80 comes stock on some burbans. And would have performed close to the commander

TheDbrain G80 or Gov loo is a poor excuse for a locker .I have one on my Duramax and hate it. I'd take a Detroit locker or Torsen any day of the week over it.

Suburbans have a much longer wheel base, and are heavier and wider than the Commander. This is where a lot of the issues come in trying to wheel long wheel based vehicles, not that they're not capable they just get hung up on stuff that the smaller vehicles don't. Those old suburbans when setup properly would go anywhere, they were easy to work on, heck you could open the hood on the older ones and literally crawl up in the engine bay and work on them.

Yea, it made it look like it wasn't 4wd

Looked like that to me as well, wonder if it wasn't engaging.

I believe it had a lift of 2, maybe 3 inches. They do look great. Whish they hadn't discontinued them.

No

Yea, it has much less horsepower but still has a good suspension system and a reliable 4x4

Same vehicle as the commander in the video just the smaller engine, it'll do the same stuff the ones with the V8's can do, just slower. The Commanders with quadra-drive just had the advantage of having limited slip front and rear differentials that the 3.7L V6 and 4.7L V8 didn't have...I believe quadra-drive was an option on the 4.7L V8 but not very common, course with some wrenching you could always swap that stuff over into either the 3.7L or 4.7L equipped Commanders.

kawirider01 not really a straight line pull putting both frame designs in...tension... would not pull the Jeep un-frame apart you have a misconception of how hard it is to rip apart a un .

3) automatic all four locking hubs (If its the QD2 powertrain) 4) HEMI POWA

Commanders dont have lockers..

They are similar in weight a commander is 4500 and a burban is 4600. look closely at the burbans front wheels . they dont spin at all. the jeep axels were fully locked and spinning!

Don't forget the Suburban is about twice as long as the Commander LOL. That's one of the biggest issues of trying to wheel a full size truck, the dang long wheel base they get hung up easier and lose traction easier.

Thiers a hierarchy of cars. GMC owns Chevy, Pontiac, and a few others. Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and others are together and used to be called Plymouth. You can see certain cars look almost identical. Pontiac solstice and Saturn Sky Subaru brz and scion FRS (which was built by subaru and Toyota together.) Etc.

before gmc decided to change the "suburban" name to yukon xl they used suburban for chevy and gmc.

+Badass Bowties no, GM owns GMC, Chevy, Buick, oldsmobile, cadillac, and pontiac. And before the Yukon XL was called the Yukon XL, they were suburbans for the person that asked

Gregory W yes it does. toyota/scion engineered the FRS , BRZ car. Subaru built the drivetrain .engine trans. go to toyota, open hood on a Toyota FRS. top of the motor, and all over the parts. genuine subaru. your welcome.

GMC/Chevrolet, same company...they used the Suburban name interchangeably back then, not sure if they do that now or not, I think they use the Yukon Denali name on the GMC versions now.

Jacob Lauritzen didn't get far enough up the hill the second the tire got light it list traction and stopped...thats a fail SON !

It has LSD front and rear from the factory.

People buy Toyota and Nissan for their name plates thinking of reliability, both of which have slipped quite a bit in recent years unfortunately now its quantity over quality as are every other automaker out there.