The Jeep Comanche is a 2-door truck from Jeep, built from 1985 to 1992, in the age of turbocharging and the first electronic engine management. Under the bonnet: Petrol engine.
The background
The Jeep Comanche (designated MJ) is a compact pickup truck variant of the Cherokee compact SUV (1984–2001) manufactured and marketed by Jeep from 1986 to 1992 in rear wheel (RWD) and four-wheel drive (4WD) models as well as two cargo bed lengths: six-foot (1.83 meters) and seven-foot (2.13 meters).
The engineering
Power comes from Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It shifts through a 4-speed Aisin AX-4 manual / 5-speed Aisin AX-5 manual / 5-speed Peugeot BA-10/5 manual / 5-speed Aisin AX-15 manual / 3-speed A904 automatic / 4-speed Aisin AW-4 automatic. The layout matters: drive goes to all four wheels, which is what lets the power be used on a wet road. The wheelbase is 113 in (6' bed) / 119.9 in (7' bed). These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Jeep CJ-8 (Scrambler) / Jeep CJ-10 / Jeep Gladiator (SJ); its successor was the Jeep Gladiator (JT). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Renault Espace, the SEAT Ibiza, the Toyota MR2 — show what else the money bought that year. Its Jeep stablemates include the Jeep Wrangler (JK) and the Jeep Wrangler (TJ).
What it costs now
There is no federal ownership record for the Jeep Comanche — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.