Jalopnik is an opinion blog. Every article is heavily opinionated and they don’t pretend to be “bipartisan”, whatever that would even mean in the car world.

I welcome an alternative to the Wrangler. I rented a brand new 2020 Wrangler (with under 20 miles) for a road trip. It still drives like crap on the highway and has an extremely cheap and rattly interior.

For the manual, that got me thinking... What if the electric motor is wedged between the clutch and the engine. Engine shuts off at stop and the electric motor starts acceleration and low speed driving. The motor also restarts the ICE for more power if they accelerate hard or pass a certain speed.

This is why they changed it. It clashes with modern design practices. Notice the logo looks like rounded metal with a light shining on it. That’s a very 90s approach to digital design. They just made it compatible with digital medium. Apple did the same thing.

No, they made the right move.

Celestiq is a drag queen who didn't make it past the 1st challenge in Rupauls Drag Race this season. 

I've rented two 2020 Wranglers (one with 7 (seven) miles and one with 2300) and both had this problem at every fuel pump I tried. It was incessant and absolutely irritating. I finally figured out that holding the pump upside down helped 

Kinda. Gas mileage is about half that of an Equinox or Escape. But being an M car, these things will be kept alive for 25 years - purely because of the M badge, people will fix it when it should be written off. Whereas an Equinox is a disposal transportation device that will be thrown away much earlier. The extra…

The new fog lights give me the creeps. And the trend of replacing the gear shift with a bunch of buttons at random angles and elevations needed to die yesterday.

I phrased it as “put you in a bad loan” or “grossly overcharge”. In my experience, a lot of mainstream brand dealers (Kia, Dodge, Chevy, Ford, Nissan, etc) charge more reasonable service prices to get you in the door, but make money screwing people over in the finance department with 72 month loans at high interest.

I don’t get the simultaneous pro-dealer and anti-dealer sentiments on this site. Clearly, Jalopnik is pro-dealer when it involves Tesla, but anti-dealer in all other regards.

John OliverIt’s intentional. Someone with great credit who finances a car at low interest, or who makes credit card payments on time and in full is not very profitable for the lender.

For the same reason there’s always one person manning the self checkout lanes, despite being a decades old technology now.

Would the voluntary repo impact their credit score the same as a normal repo? Say they ask for a voluntary repo and they pay of the remaining balance after auction. Is their credit still impacted, as if it wad involuntarily repoed?

Probably 2025 unless he has a stroke first. 

I rented one right when they came out and came away massively unimpressed. It’s also telling that Avis had a dozen on the lot at DFW the first week it was released. Fleet queen from day 1 doesn't bear well for its continued fortunes. 

Ford was my client once. I promise you they’re not nearly that cool. Only pharma and finance companies party like that

Also they drive like shit. Granted, so does the wrangler, but the Gladiator has even worse road manners. 

The original crossover! This thing was so far ahead of its time

Technically, 2010 is the future from 1997. Everything is relative