I have a Suzuki Equator RMZ-4 (the Suzuki knock-off referenced earlier.. Its the exact same truck as a Frontier Pro 4X with a different front grill) and could not be more pleased with it! It is quiet, has a nice ride, the seats are comfortable, I get about 16ish in town and about 20ish on the highway (which for a 4WD truck, I think isnt too shabby!), it pulls a trailer excellently (did I just make up a word?), has plenty of payload capacity, and impresses me more and more everytime I take it offroad.
When I was shopping for a new midsize truck to replace my old Bronco, I was debating between the Chevy Colorado, Toyota Tacoma, Nissan Frontier, and the Suzuki Equator. I ended up going to a dealership that had Toyotas and Suzukis so I was able to test drive a TRD Off Road and RMZ-4 in one day and I definitely preferred the ride and feedback that the Equator offered. The Tacoma rode nice, but it felt disconnected from the road (some might prefer this, I dont). Some of the things that made me choose the way I did were: frame on the Equator is fully boxed whereas the Tacoma isnt, the engine in the Equator felt considerably more powerful than that of the Tacoma, the bed tiedowns in the Toyota seemed extremely weak (I dont know if they are, but they looked it) while the Nissan bedrail system is beefy. I preferred the look and the stance of the Tacoma, but those things weren't enough to justify the almost 10K in price difference.
And I chose the Equator over the Frontier just because I think the front end looks better, and the Equator RMZ-4 was considerably cheaper than what the Nissan dealership wanted to sell me a Frontier Pro 4X for.