What is a Wrangler? The Wrangler is an SUV built in the Toledo, Ohio assembly plant and sold worldwide by Jeep. Wrangler is a vehicle that’s designed specifically for off roading. The 2 door Wrangler is a compact SUV, while the 4 door Wrangler is a midsize SUV. The Wrangler’s midsize 4 door models sit between the compact and full size SUVs and offers comfort, style and performance.
What is a Jeep Rubicon? The Rubicon name means having the ability to go off road with confidence. Rubicon refers to the gesture of Caesar, who decided to go for it, and not look back, but also to the Rubicon Trail in Northern California that can only be crossed by a handful of vehicles across the entire off road industry. Jeep’s that are Trail Rated can go over the extreme rocky trail that starts in California and ends in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
This week Jeep sent me a 2024 Wrangler 4 Door 4XE SUV to test drive and review. The base window sticker price for this Rubicon X model is $61,395. The options on the test SUV are: the exterior paint for $595, the customer preferred package for $8,950, the all weather floor mats for $170, the Sky One Touch power folding top for $3,995 and the factory installed Warn Winch assembly for $1,995. The manufactures suggested retail price (MSRP), including the $1,895 destination and delivery fee, is: $78,995.
After adding in the state and local sales tax, plus the DMV and dealers fees, the out the door and in your garage total purchase price came to: $88,869. Whew! At near $89 Grand this Jeep Rubicon X 4XE edition has every off road and power option; shy of the 392 Hemi engine. The standard and optional equipment list on the window sticker is over 75 lines long! This Wrangler Rubicon X 4XE SUV is at the top of the charts in Jeeps.
Power for this 4XE model starts with a 2.0 liter inline 4 cylinder dual over head cam (DOHC) direct injected (DI), turbo PHEV eco-friendly gas engine, with a plug-in hybrid electronic drive train, 2 electric motors and a 17-kWh battery pack that combined, make 375 horsepower (HP) and 470 lb-ft of torque. This engine is bolted to an 8 speed automatic transmission, routed into a 4.1 Rock-Trac heavy duty full time all wheel drive (AWD) traction control system, going into a Dana 44 front axle and a Dana M220 wide full floating rear axle assembly with 4:10 gears. Both axles have Tru-Loc center diffs with electronic off-road plus modes. This Rubicon X can drive over any obstacles at will.
This Jeep is a 4XE plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), and can go 21 miles on a full charge. The Level 1 charging cable will fully charge the battery in 12 hours, and a level 2 charger can charge the Wrangler 4xe battery in about 2 hours. This driveline gets 20 MPG driving on the gas engine and 40 MPGe on combined gas and electric driving. The …read more
Source:: The Mercury News – Entertainment
