You can retrofit a non-air suspension with steel coil springs (the ones used in base model Expeds in the U.S.) should the air suspension fail.

My dad has an '01 with barely 10k kms on it. Nothing major repaired. Pero nung ginamit namin sa Baguio, parang nanikit yung left rear brake. Uminit and nangamoy. The other three brakes didn't. The problem has not recurred.

Masarap sumakay and masarap din i-drive. The Exped is large pero it has better rear vision than most other SUV's making parking lot maneuvers quite easy. Mas mahirap pa tantsahin yung Vitara/Patrol/Fortuner when backing into a parking space.