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Standard Catalog of 4 X 4's: A Comprehensive Guide to Four-Wheel Drive Vehicles Including Trucks, Vans and Sports Sedans and Spor

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I use this book as a reference tool for my business at Canadian four wheel drive magazine. I find the book to have a very complete listing of all standard options available to each vehicle going back to 1946. All mesurements and in some cases production totals and prices. Though I have found a few points missed the listings are very complete with each year of vehicle logicly laid out. If you want to know what came on your vehicle stock or one you are interested in this book will give you the information you are looking for. An over all good buy. Albert Vandervelde

An useful book with a lot of technical information and specs. Not to see great pics, neither read good texts.

Robert C. Ackerson's Standard Catalog of 4x4s is the most accurate reference material I've found for 4x4 information. I have the older edition (1945 - 1993) and purchased the 1945-2000 edition to get more recent data. I was a little disappointed that there was not more information available on the 1999-2000 WJ Grand Cherokees. But the book is still one of my most valued 4x4 reference books. You will not find a better source of information concerning drivetrain components. I use it for engine and drivetrain swap data. I've checked much of the Jeep data with factory brochures and repair manuals and his data is accurate, unlike other authors. There is a lot of technical data packed in a very tight space! I highly recommend it to any automotive enthusiast. If you're a 4x4 type gear head, this is a must for your book shelf.

I love this book for it's depth of coverage. I hate this book because it has so many errors, inaccuracies and omissions. On one hand, I feel like a hypocrite trashing this book because I use it so much as a reference. I used the previous version to the point of it falling apart. On the other hand, I have found so many maddening errors and omissions (and I am in a good position to judge these things, I assure you) that I grit my teeth at the lost potential of this book. I expect a few errors with a work of this depth. It's inevitable, because of the staggering amount of material, but many of the inaccuracies are of the lazy sort. One good example is information from one year that is pasted into succeeding years when much of it no longer applies or is inaccurate. On top of that, a good deal of the material used to upgrade the book ifor the new millennia is sketchy and appears as hastily added afterthoughts. Quick-n-dirty.

Whoosh! I smother the flames of my previous remarks by still recommending this book. It's simply too useful in a broad sense to dismiss it completely. I can only hope that Krause will invest the time and energy to set this books problems to rights.

There is plenty of data on basic models, and how they were offered, but not enough consistant detail. That is what is listed for one model is not listed for another. Moreover only American brands are covered.

What information is provided is interesting. But WHERE ARE THE STUDEBAKERS? How could they possibly leave out not just a model, but an entire make of 4x4 trucks?