The Big E is one of those special memories I had as a child/young teenager. It was the pride of the fleet This picture will forever be etched in my memory: E=mc2

Quite a few people have decided their existential purpose is slagging the Wrangler as unreliable scrap. Consumer Reports is one of the most zealous members of this anti-Wrangler faction. Yet, you look on the road, and you see TJ's everywhere, running without problems. My TJ is 11 years old, and I've never made a major…

When are you buying your next one?

After the '11 interior refresh and the new engine in '12, the Wrangler is pretty excellent. If you the next closest new thing would be FJ Cruiser, but those are on their way out. The Xterra is about the only other thing in the same price category. I suppose you could get a lower end Grand Cherokee or 4Runner too, but…

Jeep guys are a lot like Miata guys. While they are ok with certain small things being changed or added over time, they won't accept any fundamental or drastic changes that alters the Jeeps Jeepness. What they want to do with their Jeeps hasn't really changed very much over the past 70 years and the tools best…

They could move from Toledo South to Toledo North. They are very different factories.

Yeah, my brother in law only got 330,000 miles out of his Wrangler. What a piece if shit thise cars are.

not sure what planet you live on but its not this one. i'm several wranglers deep and know literally dozens and dozens of other owners that haven't had any issues stock. i've beaten the hell out of all of them and the only one i ever had problems was my current 05 and that was only some sensors. sucks to be in canada…

I know you aren't making a joke, but... uh. Dent. Unibody.

I disagree because the one thing that has kept it going is that it is "buildable" like no other vehicle made. In other words, because it was kept simple, you could go in all sorts of directions.

if Sergio turns the wrangler into another soft-roader I think it's time to start questioning him as a ceo. You can't just hellcat a few things and then changes one of America's most iconic suvs and say this is what people want.

You had a bad experience with a car in the case of the JK does not make it substandard. Overwhelmingly these are used in very rough terrain and are abused and most people find them to be capable and durable.

You forgot to mention price. Which going to aluminum and complicated forced inductions engines are all but certain to increase.

Yet you bought three of them, why?

Yeah, that statement about never moving the Wrangler production has been replayed several times in the local press in and around Toledo (local resident here). The idea of relocating the Wrangler line to a new facility is akin to moving Ferrari out of Maranello , as a fellow Jalop wrote a few days ago. If this actually…

I don't know if I'm surprised or not. I get that Fiat is hell-bent on ruining everything Chrysler has, but I kind of figured with Wranglers being pretty solid sales on a vehicle you don't have to spend too much money updating, Fiat would just leave it be. Oh well.

Yeah I think this is a terrible idea. There have also been rumors that it could go to independent suspension which would also be a disaster. Aluminum will only make the car more expensive. It really sucks that fuel economy regulations are making them fuss with an extremely successful vehicle. The wrangler is…

Marchionne is great at rhetoric and using profits from a successful car company to prop up his own failing one, but so far, not much else.

Great article. Definitely first world problems. I feel incredibly lucky to have a super car (McLaren 12C Spider), but driving into the city here (I live in Silicon Valley driving to San Francisco) is exactly like you said. You are constantly watching for anything that could jump out from the sides, top, bottom…

Decreasing radius corners ... any corner really ... are the killers of riders in single vehicle accidents.