New Jeep Pickup in 2019...Thoughts

Fueled by Caffeine wrote: In reply to 84FSP: Irish?

Thanks, I just choked on an ice cube.

I ran into a well kept J20 a little while back. The only apparent mods were underneath. The owner was pretty blase about some random guy running up to him in a gas station to take pictures of his truck.

poopshovel again wrote:

slefain wrote: I predict they will sell like hotcakes to suburban Dad's with upper middle management jobs, who will then deck them out in Jeep "outdoor lifestyle gear" that will never see use but make them feel like they are back in their frat again. The bed will be used to haul stuff to/from kids sports practice and gigantic 96 roll bulk packs of T.P. from Costco. One day it will snow 1" in their city and they will proclaim with great authority to their wife that THIS is why they bought a four wheel drive vehicle! They will then throw it in four low and proceed to pirouette into a ditch as all four wheels scramble for traction on the actual ice that covers the road. Their neighbor will offer to give them a ride to work in their Prius V which made it up the gated neighborhood's only hill with ease. I'm not wrong...

NAILED_IT!!! (Insert slow-clap) They'd sell like hotcakes in my neck of the woods. They could charge an extra $15k for a "salt life" edition

I spent a few years in the Jeep parts biz, then I worked in Dunwoody, GA for a mega corporation. During the "Snowpocolypse" I got stuck behind a guy in a tricked out Wrangler with all four wheels blazing on the hill in front of Marist (Ashford-Dunwoody Road just inside 285). He wasn't going anywhere but sideways towards the curb. I eased around him in my 2002 Camry and just puttered up the hill with a little wheel slip here and there. Saw more than a few "ULTIMATE OFF ROAD MACHINES!!!" sitting in the ditch on my way home.

Good call on the "Salt Life" edition, pretty sure that would get you in the parking deck at most Dunwoody office buildings. That and an ALTA sticker.

A: I don't get the hate for a dude who has the means to buy a car and deck it out... we are all 8 year olds at heart, and if a dude wants a berkeleyin' tonka truck, why do you care? He wants to look in the mirror and see a man, and why is that a bad thing?

2: I have a RAM 3.0 diesel that has been f'ing fantastic for 35k. Truck has been flawless. Engine is superlative. Transmission excellent. It's not just a Fiat engine... developed by GM for Euro caddy's.

Keith Tanner wrote: My BIL has a "long Jeep". Basically the long wheelbase 4 door, but with two doors. They weren't made for very long. Looks like this: I've gotta say, it's a pretty decent size. You can put four people in it and have some cargo space, or pull the back seats and it's basically a pickup. But it's a reasonable size footprint. It's the first Wrangler I've looked at and said "yeah, I might want one of those". He's got both a softtop and a hardtop for it. His is also a Rubicon that's been nicely modified, so it's probably worth more than any car I own

These were the bomb-I think they were called the unlimited before the 4-door was the unlimited. They command a bit of a premium now. I'm looking forward to seeing these trucks, I've heard they will be diesel + auto only with the auto stop/start feature. I'm expecting a 40K price tag as well but based on the pictures I've seen they will look the business.

poopshovel again wrote:

slefain wrote: I predict they will sell like hotcakes to suburban Dad's with upper middle management jobs, who will then deck them out in Jeep "outdoor lifestyle gear" that will never see use but make them feel like they are back in their frat again. The bed will be used to haul stuff to/from kids sports practice and gigantic 96 roll bulk packs of T.P. from Costco. One day it will snow 1" in their city and they will proclaim with great authority to their wife that THIS is why they bought a four wheel drive vehicle! They will then throw it in four low and proceed to pirouette into a ditch as all four wheels scramble for traction on the actual ice that covers the road. Their neighbor will offer to give them a ride to work in their Prius V which made it up the gated neighborhood's only hill with ease. I'm not wrong...

NAILED_IT!!! (Insert slow-clap) They'd sell like hotcakes in my neck of the woods. They could charge an extra $15k for a "salt life" edition

Wanna go into business together? I'll supply the stickers.

Besides the Salt life stickers, what would the Salt Life edition come with? A built in Yeti cooler? A Jeep branded ventilated fishing shirt that all those guys wear with salmon colored frat shorts? A couple of Buffalo Wild Wings gift certificates?

Don't knock the ventilated fishing shirts. They're usually SPF/UPF rated and the vents do work to keep things cool. I suggest using them during your course work shifts.

Receiver mount fishing pole holder. Someone in marketing at Jeep should do this.

Brett_Murphy wrote: Don't knock the ventilated fishing shirts. They're usually SPF/UPF rated and the vents do work to keep things cool. I suggest using them during your course work shifts.

I have one to fish in but I don't need one to sip Bud Light Lime tailgating at college football games with a leg up on my Salt Life edition Jeep.

mazdeuce wrote: Receiver mount fishing pole holder. Someone in marketing at Jeep should do this.

receiver mounted rod holder AND cooler mount. Maybe even battery powered fridge.

mad_machine wrote:

mazdeuce wrote: Receiver mount fishing pole holder. Someone in marketing at Jeep should do this.

receiver mounted rod holder AND cooler mount. Maybe even battery powered fridge.

mndsm wrote:

poopshovel again wrote:

slefain wrote: I predict they will sell like hotcakes to suburban Dad's with upper middle management jobs, who will then deck them out in Jeep "outdoor lifestyle gear" that will never see use but make them feel like they are back in their frat again. The bed will be used to haul stuff to/from kids sports practice and gigantic 96 roll bulk packs of T.P. from Costco. One day it will snow 1" in their city and they will proclaim with great authority to their wife that THIS is why they bought a four wheel drive vehicle! They will then throw it in four low and proceed to pirouette into a ditch as all four wheels scramble for traction on the actual ice that covers the road. Their neighbor will offer to give them a ride to work in their Prius V which made it up the gated neighborhood's only hill with ease. I'm not wrong...

NAILED_IT!!! (Insert slow-clap) They'd sell like hotcakes in my neck of the woods. They could charge an extra $15k for a "salt life" edition

Wanna go into business together? I'll supply the stickers.

I'd take you up on it, but Fortec already has the clientele covered pretty well.

Let's say you took this pickup and a stock 4wd crew cab F150 and a stock Crewcab chevy 4x4 into the mountains and up an unimproved forestry road to a remote trout stream.

Would there be a big performance gap between any of them in stock, unmodified form?

ultraclyde wrote: Let's say you took this pickup and a stock 4wd crew cab F150 and a stock Crewcab chevy 4x4 into the mountains and up an unimproved forestry road to a remote trout stream. Would there be a big performance gap between any of them in stock, unmodified form?

I would think the Tacoma and Colorado/Canyon would be closer in size than the bigger trucks.

The CJ7 was a stretched CJ5. Could be used like a pickup.