I know jeeps are bad in MPG, noisy not the best drive etc..... But you know what, driving a jeep is the best feeling ever, after sex lol. My JKU is my second jeep and every day I'm more in love with it When I'm down or I have to much shit on me, I go to some OHV places and just chill, relaxes me and they just look bad ass... This is my baby jeep I know is not the best looking one but that's ok is just something about jeeps that makes them the best vehicle in my opinion By the way I know I don't make sense I never do ddc4dcdffc

 

 

I'm a prime example why people buy the Wrangler.
Because it looks awesome, the top comes down/off, and it actually, in the limited amount of test driving, it does not ride bad at all, on decent city streets and highway. People like me expect a jarring experience based on its previous versions, and are pleasantly surprised how the ride, in above conditions, and again, in a couple 30min test drives, is really not that bad. It's got room, plenty of it for the average person.

However, FOR ME, after 2.5 yrs of owning a brand new 2014 JKU, AND IT BEING MY TRAVEL vehicle, it gets long in the tooth. I took it to New York and back, to FL and back, to AK and back, to TX and back, to name a few trips. The noise above 60mi, the ride hitting the slightest bump, the poor mileage were not cutting it. Above all, it was the noise that on a 22hr trip had me and the passenger wife feeling beaten with a stick.

I AM NOT a loyalist of any brand and certainly JEEP "culture" does not mean anything to me, neither does any other car culture. I understand people who are die hard fans of it, good for you FOR ME, it was the wrong vehicle, but I like "toys/gadgets/new vehicles," like the majority of us. I am not gonna lie and say I won't miss it. It did LOOK awesome, and we loved the tops off and short trips on scenic routes. But we travel long distances for fan a lot, and again, in the end, it was tiresome.

Now, if JEEP decides to make a "clone" with, gasp, aluminum frame, independent suspension, 1000 # lighter, I'll be on it like a kid in a candy store. Don't have a heart attack, you diehards, I'm just asking for an additional "JK LIKE."

PS.: Wrangler was traded in for an almost straight trade on a 34,500 sticker price Honda Accord Hybrid. I paid 1000 extra, and 100 bucks on tax, and got a brand new vehicle that will serve the purpose I wanted it for. Oh, it is nice - fully loaded, gadget full, quiet as a whisper, 49 city / 47 Highway, nice torque from 1rpm, and did I say comfy? Embracing for contact with minor bumps the Jeep will bounce, it is like "is that bump still there?"

PS. 2: still in the family since I also got a Renegade for the wife, for a price I could not refuse: Sport with 4K in options, (rims, remote start, backup camera, etc.) for 21k out the door. It was 23.8K before even taxes, which are 9.75% here. You know what? It is a great little SUV - 0 complains. Made in Italy by FIAT reliability remains to be seen.

 

For me they are just too much fun., No matter what even in traffic the elevated view etc. When i was 22 freshet of school and working as a geologist I was driving a ford fast back galaxy 500 it had a trunk I could haul anything in. but it got stuck so I bought a Datsun ( now Nissan ) king cab with wide tires and that was when I learned the real meaning of stuck and what exactly an open differential doesn't do. Stuck so many times , in mud when a wheel fell through whole on an old wooden bridge and more I go so fed up I went down tot he Jeep dealer in Huntington Beach and bought a 77 Jeep cj-7 golden eagle package,, ( man what a chick magnet that was) The thing that probably put the JeeP fever in my blood was One trip I did going skiing ( this was before snow boards were invented ) I was sitting line of about 10,000 cars ( well 8miles worth ) and these guys come down form mtn DIVING AN CJ-5 THEY SEE ME AND STOP AND ASK "WHAT AM I doing in line?"
I say "waiting there must be an accident up there."
They say "Nope just a bunch of ____ putting on chains in the middle of the road you can go around them"
So I did 8 miles through the snow on the wrong side of the road pulled up to the front of the line the cops just look and wave me through, I get to snow summit pull right up front in front of the ticket window. Best spot i have ever had at any resort .

well time went buy went through many many 4x4s a ford 350 with skinny wheels that road a thousand time worse than my jeep, 2 toyota pickups, a fore runner, a bronco, 2 suburbans, a 2 dr blazer, 2 chevy 4x4 pick ups, a hummer h-3 a tacoma, and a sportscar phase which included 2 corvettes convertibles and a black viper but all the while seeing jeeps feeling the fever grow and when the 4 dr came out an I saw a lifted one with the top down I just couldn't take it any more. I went down and ordered an 08 That is till drive today every day and has 150,000 on it.

Its a Jeep Thing sums it up.

 

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I'm new to Jeep but I will share why I bought one. I'm an Army 11B Vet and thought it was a no brainer for me and my needs. Due to all my jumps I have a bad left hip and can't comfortably drive a clutch anymore. I love the versatility you get with a Jeep, strong after market products, but mostly the brotherhood of fellow Jeep owners. Minus Harley you don't get that from anything else!

 

Our first was a 85 CJ7, but I remember going to the dealership when the CJ7 first came out and thought "I have to have one of these". Well it took awhile, but loved that first one with the buckboard suspension that we re-arched the springs and put bigger tires on. Then came the TJ, and we had been without for a couple of years and I hit the dealer and bought a Sport that had just rolled off the car hauler in Oct 1996. Had that until Oct 2011, when I decided it was time to upgrade and create the Jeep I always wanted before I retire. It took a whole block of the test drive before I was sold on the JK changes. Then a year ago, I offered to pay for a JKU for my husband if he was interested. He was, and now we have the two sitting side-by-side and loving it.

My TJ license plate frame was "Its A Jeep Thing" around the plate "97 RND I" because I just think a real Jeep has round headlights

 

two Suzuki Jeeps, CJ5, F250 4x4, two YJ's, one Tj, Defender 90 and now this JKU. Honestly, the best off road vehicle imo out of these that I have owned and punished is the Defender 90. It is far superior BUT this comes at a cost. Lots of maintenance, extremely rusty chassis, and fast corroding aluminum body work, ZERO luxury and quite uncomfortable. Very much like a truck to drive BUT it will not stop. The Defender is very difficult to get stuck. I would have to spend thousands of dollars to the Yj, Tj (and I have) and Jku and they still will not be close to the "off road" performance of the stock D90, and I get 30mpg on a gallon of diesel most times. I have modified the suspension on her and she truly is incredible. The JKU that I own now is a very nice vehicle, very comfortable, quiet, has AC and a stereo. The D90 has none of this. The JKU is very roomy and can carry a great load, the D90 cannot, however, compared to the other off road vehicles that I have owned, beside the F250, the JKU is HUGE! much to long and wide to be any use on the trails and bush that I deal with in The Bahamas. So, the JKU is my daily driver. Nice and comfy, fun to drive, good looking (canary yellow I think) but when its time to hit the real trails my Defender sits waiting and rusting in my garage.

 

I use it as a daily driver and chose the brand because I don't like being restricted to the road. Having a vehicle capable of getting off the road is necessary for my job and personal endeavors. In totality I wonder why people buy cars, they are restricted in use and if needed cant do much without asphalt