The AWD is a better version of the first one and that truck actually one the baja 1000 with the OEM AWD setup! Upgrades to the suspension and travel but the final driveline was essentially unchanged!

It is now a hydraulically actuated clutch system so there are no electrical solenoids to keep cool and the clamping force is 100% over the 70% of the old. The gearing makes the rear over-driven such that more torque could be delivered rearward or to an outside tire in a corner. Expect it to handle brilliantly.

AWD; the front transmission has a transfer gear driving a driveshaft to the rear axle. The rear axle has a hydraulically actuacted set of two or three clutch packs: This is the new i-VTM4 system. The gearing makes the rear axle over driven (spins faster than the front) to provide a rear-biased torque distribution when…

Except the other features it has will be used a lot more

Too bad the risk of a blowout is so incredibly high. How could one ever chance it???

It doesn’t, it occupies the space that a solid axle needs for suspension travel. The IRS is fixed relative to the bed.

The notion that vehicles are or aren’t “real” is a marketing one. If a vehicle gets the job done what’s not real?