I was just curious so I looked at what a top-of-the-line Jeep wrangler runs now and it was quite a bit more than I paid new for a well-featured 4x4 Chevy Suburban. What?

I think they’ve more or less fixed the issue with the newer engines. But yes, head gaskets may as well be a consumable on 2000’s era Subarus. And they are no treat to do in your garage...learned that the hard way.

Ah, the good old days, when a Jeep was simple and mine cost me 11K. (1994)

I never understood who was buying all these Wranglers at 35-45k.  I really like them, but tough to imagine spending that kind of coin on one.

Some of the pricing reaches $70+ for these jeeps.

at some point maybe corporate America will realize selling $35-55k cars is difficult if there is no middle class

No reason this article needs to be longer than one sentence: they are too expensive.

It’s simple. The JL is superior to the outgoing JK. They’re going to have to discount the hell out of the leftovers. 

Is this a small indicator of a coming recession ?  People unwilling to go into big debt to buy what is essentially a toy.

I wonder how much of this has to do with the market for new units, in general, slowing down—and how much of it has to do with the comparatively high price-point at which Jeep is selling new Wranglers. It wasn’t all that many years ago--like, TJ-years-ago--that you could get into a moderately equipped Wrangler without…

Should have left it at $35-$55k. 

maybe at some point corporate America will realize that selling $40-55k cars is difficult if there is no middle class to buy them.

at some point maybe corporate America will realize selling $35-55k cars is difficult if there is no middle class

I wonder if they checked to see how many of those leftover 2018s are carryover Wrangler JKs, since Jeep was building both JK and JL Wranglers and Wrangler Unlimiteds for the 2018 model year.

As we say:

So if it couldn’t pass any crash tests, how is this thing safe to drive? With that power and speed combined with that lift and those tires you know someone’s going to destroy this thing and get hurt or loose their life. 

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No way to double this.

Double? I want what you’re smoking. These are all over the place, at dealers even, for this price. But every single dealer listing I saw in that price range, looked pristine and with lower miles.

I don’t give a fucking rat’s ass what that actually is, it’s just nasty. Detail it before you pic it, you puss dripping troglodyte.