Naturally the Jeep Rubicon can ford water 30 inches worth we got a nice icy
bath here we're gonna break up some ice and go through it most people who take a
look at this thing ahead and say hell no we say hell yes here we go
bath time for the Jeep
oh and I think our cameraman that got a bath as well if you've never seen a
$49,000 Wrangler before a rest assured neither have I this is a real no
exaggeration a serious quantum leap for the Wrangler we're here at Monticello
Motor Club with our favorite rally star Chris new classy and have you ever seen
a Wrangler this fancy before insane but again now this is the kind of thing
that's gonna put off the typical Wrangler fan at first if they think it
means that the thing can oh I can't off-road anymore this thing has dana 44
axles on it I think the stant regular lesser models have like thirty fives but
all all the - all the off-road toys and all right so good let's uh let's go have
some fun in this brood
the big story of this car is that it is so much more civilized and livable but
it's not compromised an off-roading in fact its off-road skills have only
increased I'm driving through about a foot of fresh snow here and uh it's
hooking up reel of cabbie up Goodrich off-road tires some pretty serious nabis
on this thing this is just such an anomaly in today's you know SUV market
everything we remembered as hardcore off-road er is either long gone like a
Hummer or it's been watered down like a Pathfinder this Jeep is sui generis in
this class this is a Rubicon two-door version optional hardtop with removable
panels you can still get a soft top of court guess what's coming an automatic
retractable hardtop for this vehicle even better approach angle even better
crawl ratio than before we've got a 4.10 rear end ten point nine inches of ground
clearance and still goes through thirty inches of water got blocking front and
rear electronic locking front and rear differentials really cool feature I can
hit the button and disconnect the front sway bar to get a little even more wheel
travel and articulation and some in the seriously dicey stuff skid plates for
the transfer case for the transmission rock rails this thing can you know
scrape over something to Martha now this particular Jeep starts at $28,000 for
your basic sport model this Rubicon two-door starts at about $38,000 and
like I said forty nine thousand dollars all in you got different you got Sport
Sport+ and the hardcore Rubicon and if you get
the four-door Wrangler apart you there's also some a Sahara edition it has a
different four-wheel-drive system includes like a full-time four-wheel
drive that has a you know an automatically adjusting torque split for
a while you're driving on road I've got Chris in front of me in in a row
here and Monticello Motor Club besides being you know this great road course
has these really great off-road trails it's a serious serious obstacles here
can see I've got a big steep hill here and lots of snow I'm gonna have to get
some momentum let's see if we can get up this there we go
haha that was not bad well hey it made it that was I wasn't wasn't so sure
about that but did that didn't handle that pretty well a couple little Abadi
bets let's check out the outside of this a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Recon grille
here looks almost more like the old classic CJ that goes back you know to
the post-war era 1964 for uh for a trivia fan that when they first put the
jeep a mounted instead of Willie's Co for a fence part of the kaiser
corporation awesome tough steel bumpers the fog light that's an option
at this thing is a monster
it's just insane um you got this 8.4 inch touchscreen waterproof of course
you can still take a hose to this thing for USBs all waterproof pen estar v6
familiar Chrysler engine 285 horsepower diesel engine coming as well but big
news is a new turbo 4-cylinder that's got more like 270 horsepower but 295
pound-feet of torque a little bit more torque than even this v6 and a lot
better fuel economy as well love this interior it's like the glue evil Slugger
this big leather wrap shift er remote start cross traffic alert blind spot
alert and so much better on road performance a new electric pump for the
hydraulic steering totally retuned suspension five legs up the front redone
springs redone the shocks box ladder frame of course tough as ever but a lot
more rigid mounting points so a lot better on road experience but no lots of
off-road capability this new ladder frame lot more use of aluminum doors
around the windshield header hood mast to save 200 pounds and just so much more
convenient there's still a soft top model man the thing used to just be such
a pain you've never wanted to take it off you can never figure out how to put
it back on again now the thing just retracts or erects in just about half
a minute maybe hardtop my look I'm a little tool kit here we could remove
these these panels are just a couple latches but you of course you can take
off the entire hardtop and this windshield same thing just had dozens
and screws you've never wanted most people didn't even know you could remove
the windshield this one four bolts bing-bing-bing-bing this thing folds
right down door is weight easier to remove and put back on differing lengths
pins and what that means is you can hang one pin and then line up the other one
it used to be so impossible that very tricky to kind of line up two pins at
once while you're trying to hold that like that door in there
so what have we learned about the jeep wrangler rubicon 4x4 well that this is
still a unique proposition in this class we just came off some incredible
off-road trails and no studs or anything this thing was going through two feet of
virgin snow with the front and rear lockers in four-wheel low and four-wheel
high but you can get again a starter Jeep for about twenty eight thousand
dollars take it all the way up complicated this but all the other off
rotors have either gone way of the dinosaur or they've just been softened
up and this is still a serious commando vehicle totally fresh Jeep Wrangler
Rubicon