On my GC that sticker means electronic locking diff, skid plates, and 18" wheels (not rims) vs. the standard 20. I paid extra for those features and I like looking down my nose as the plebes in the GC’s who didn’t pony up for that package. I do not often take my GC off road, but when I do, I like to know I have an…

Are you kidding? this ones legit...

Take the Jeep Patriot for example. The trail rated version is a real offroad beast for a stock car... more ground clearance than the base wranglers, brake lock differentials, and excellent gearing.... compared to say for example a “Budget SUV” jeep patriot which struggles with the…

First off, I own a Wrangler 4-door. Got that out of the way. Now, second, the badge does mean something. It means that the Jeep has been rated to go over a particular section of the Rubicon trail, as someone below mentioned, that was recreated boulder by boulder at their proving grounds. I didn’t come here just to…

That’s exactly what I think too...sure, it has been rated, but what rating did it receive?

The CJ, YJ, TJ,XJ never had a lame ass “Trail Rated” badge because the ENTIRE Jeep lineup was offroad ready.

Complaints about the Trail Rated badge being made completely worthless when they started putting it on certain vehicles proves that badges have value — clearly Trail Rated meant something to you.

Those tire/wheel swaps make me want to cry a little. Why pay for the better offroad version if you were going to do that?

Skidplates, low gear ratio, larger tires, increased height/ground clearance, computer assist modes, actual trail testing for best in class, that’s what it denotes.

It means plenty, just not to meatheads who think it should apply only to the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, instead of the trail-tested best-in-class offroading ability it actually denotes.

It means plenty, just not to meatheads who think it only it should apply only to the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, instead of the trail-tested best-in-class offroading ability it actually denotes.

There’s actually requirements for that though: http://www.jeep.com/en/jeep-capabilities/trail-rated/

For as much as one can argue against the modern, car-based Jeeps, they still are the most capable things in their respective classes.

At one point this badge was only on jeeps that were equipped to traverse a particular part of the Rubicon Trail, which was supposedly duplicated boulder by boulder at the Chelsea test center. How diluted the badge has become is the question.

Great topic.

My ex wife had a family member that raised chickens in rural Japan. He had a young boy that died at around 6. Fast forward a few years later, he had been steadily drinking a bit more and more. One night he was barreling through the country-side in his pick up, when the dark night lights up with police lights, they…

I’m going to guess and say a KFC buckets worth.

I was caught in the middle of a lightning storm and DESPERATELY needed my DeLorean DMC-12 to start. It was running perfectly fine one minute, then randomly died. After several cranks, it was looking BLEAK. In a moment of pure frustration and helplessness, I slammed my head into the steering wheel...and it fired right…

Girlfriend stuck her vibrating bullet down the back of my pants on a road trip and, via wired remote, induced varying degrees of stimulation for about 50 miles.

And exactly how many chickens are involved in the pre-start ritual?

Dad has a Triumph TR6 that eerily doesn’t leak and starts on the first attempt...

Yup front of one tire going down bumps back of other tire going up and away you go.