DerekShiekhi

We got a chance to take the new Jeep Wrangler Willys Wheeler for some fun in the mud. Here's what we found out.

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TheDirtman

It has some special stickers and badging on it, nothing different then a sport model.

JE8154

You paid $6100 for some stickers and a set of rubi tires and wheels. You're writing this review for a jeep forum. I'm sure someone on here would have told you that's a bad deal.

petef550

$6100 for some stupid stickers. That's just highway robbery. For the extra $$$$ you could have done lockers front and rear and put some real armor on it. I hope it was just a demo and you didn't actually pay for that.

ManuelCarrillo3

We had it on loan from the Chrysler press fleet.

Mr Big Bear

3:73 gear ratio which will spin 35's fine until you have coin to regear. sport is a dismal 3:21 ratio, you'll need that 2000$ extra for the regear when you lift it or go bigger rubber. also the wheels look way better until you can buy those too. the bfg tires get you a lil resale value if you lift it soon enough. hill descent also is nice sometimes. limited slip rear diff works great in sand and snow compared to an open diff sport model. maybe not 6100$ worth of stuff but hands down way better than a sport model. plus that 6100$ is msrp, who pays that? i didn't pay anywhere near that for mine.

RubiKing

My Willys package was 4k. Worth it for the Rubi tires and wheels, suspension, and rocker guards. Plus the 3.73 gears, connectivity group, tire pressure monitoring display, trac-lok, and other junk.

I couldn't find a sport with the 3.73 gearing. If I had I might have gotten a sport.

MotoJeeper

3.73s on a sport are about a $600 option. The Trakloc LSD was $295 for my Sport, I believe. IMHO, if you someone is going to get a Willys, they might as well spend the extra 3k for a Rubicon instead. Then you get lockers and a D44 ring and pinion up front.

JerseyMark

I am not sure why there are always so many Haters on the special edition Wranglers. These threads always have similar comments - stickers for $$$, etc...
The Willys Edition is actually a very good deal, aside from the Willys W edition in the 2 door - which is the only one that is a little overpriced. It is not a 4 or 6 thousand dollar package:

Wrangler S model with tinted windows, 3.73, connectivity and LSD = $27,423 invoice(28515 MSRP)
Willys Wheeler model(already has tint/3.73/LSD/connect) with AC = $27840 invoice(29790 MSRP)
Willys Wheeler W Model(same as regular willys +AC and has option for pw/pl) = $28556 invoice(29790 MSRP)

So, if you don't need power for only $417 you get Mud Terrain Tires and Rock Rails + STICKERS - seems like a Great deal to me.
If you need power - it is a little worse at $1133 for M/Ts and rails - but still not bad and nowhere near the 4 or 6k mentioned above.

I didn't compare it to the base wrangler C package but that cannot be ordered with LSD or tinted windows and even still it is not much of a price difference.

JE8154

Says the guy who paid for stickers...