More recent Jeeps are much more complex- HOWEVER, they remain on of the simplest cars money can buy from what I've seen. In an era of huge plastic coverings in your engine bay and twenty thousand different gizmos, the engine bay of a 6-cyl Jeep Wrangler still looks to me like an engine from the 60's.

I have been considering getting a Jeep for much the same reasons. I figure a late 80's model.