The XJ was released with two available engines; one being the AMC 2.5L, carbureted four-cylinder with 105 hp. This was AMC’s newly designed and released engine, whereas they had used the GM 151 Iron Duke four-cylinder in previous Jeeps. The second engine was the Chevrolet 2.8L V6, also carbureted and rated at 115 hp.

**Figure based on a stock 1986 Jeep Comanche X valued at $3,300 with OH rates with $100/300K liability/UM/UIM limits. Actual costs vary depending on the coverage selected, vehicle condition, state and other factors.

Because of this, not many were made. This means that today they are exceedingly rare. More rare, even, than exotic sports cars like Ferraris. Today, you’re more likely to see a Ferrari on the road than one of the 200,000 Jeep Comanches that were made.

The Comanche was light enough that a four-cylinder engine provided sufficient power (by mid-1980s standards), so AMC developed a four-cylinder using many of the dimensions of the good old AMC straight-six engine and made it the base powerplant for the Comanche.

The decision to phase out the Jeep Comanche “came from a combination of two factors— low sales and Chrysler’s attempts to make the Jeep brand fit into the Chrysler hierarchy of Plymouth, Dodge, and Chrysler models” with Jeep housing SUVs and Dodge making trucks.

Comanche, self-name Nermernuh, North American Indian tribe of equestrian nomads whose 18th- and 19th-century territory comprised the southern Great Plains. The name Comanche is derived from a Ute word meaning “anyone who wants to fight me all the time.”

comanche: anyone who wants to fight me all the time (ute word) cowichan: basking in the sun that warms your back or warm land. crow: crow, sparrowhawk, bird people.

Comanche /kəˈmæntʃi/ is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche people, who split from the Shoshone people soon after the Comanche had acquired horses around 1705. The name “Comanche” comes from the Ute word kɨmantsi meaning “enemy, stranger”.

During World War II, many Comanche left the traditional tribal lands in Oklahoma to seek jobs and more opportunities in the cities of California and the Southwest. About half of the Comanche population still lives in Oklahoma, centered on the town of Lawton.

Comanche weapons collection From left to right: Comanche war club, quiver of arrows, flat bow, rawhide shield, and war hawk. David Baker: “The Comanche weapons are all basic and effective. The war club delivers a devastating blow. The war hawk, with its sharp steel head, is easily used on the ground or from horseback.”

Must all American Indians and Alaska Natives live on reservations? No. American Indians and Alaska Natives live and work anywhere in the United States (and the world) just as other citizens do. American Indian and Alaska Native population now live away from their tribal lands.

The Comanches, known as the “Lords of the Plains”, were regarded as perhaps the most dangerous Indians Tribes in the frontier era. The U.S. Army established Fort Worth because of the settler concerns about the threat posed by the many Indians tribes in Texas. The Comanches were the most feared of these Indians.