[s-cars] NAC - Why is manual and full-time 4wd or AWD mutuallyexclusive in SUVs

[Varon H. Fugman]

>>Am I only one who wants a manual and on-dry-road 4wd?
>>Is there some vehicle I'm missing?

The Toyota FJ Cruiser runs counter to typical configurations:

The 6-speed manual comes with full-time AWD.
The 5-speed automatic has only part-time 4WD.

Only problem could be actually finding a manual... and the slightly lower
gas mileage... 19mpg hwy for the manual, 21mpg for automatic.

The FJ Cruiser is an interesting mixup of mostly 4Runner parts with a few
non-US LandCruiser bits thrown in.  They did focus quite a bit on giving it
serious off-road capabilities.  And IIRC, the center diff on the AWD model
is a Torsen... what more could you want?

Varon
'95 urS6