DocTwinkie
Well-Known Member
I know a lot of folks will quote “real world” crash results but after seeing the European crash testing I think I’m out.
The 2019 or 2020 wrangler was going to be my midlife crisis car. A car that would be fun and take me back to the 90s when I drove a wrangler as a teen.
I had a hard time swallowing the gas mileage. Yes I believe in global warming because it’s a fact but I told myself there will be a plug in hybrid or an efficient diesel. But the diesel is taking years and if the plug in is anything like it we will be lucky to see it by 2025. The real world 3.6 and 2.0 mileage has been pitiful.
Still I kept hoping the diesel or the plug in would come in. But oh man. The 2017 wrangler was a marginal performer in crash tests but this puppy managed to do even worse. Do I really want to drive a car that would leave me seriously injured or dead in a 31mph crash? I mean severe chest and leg injuries? That’s insane to think my wife’s RDX hits a pole and my wrangler at the same speed. She gets a lift home and I’m in the icu or worse.
I just can’t justify it anymore. I was going for more of an overlanding rig and the ram aced its crash tests. I have a wife and a kid and I’m just not sure I can stomach the idea that one or all of us could die in the same crash that a small sedan’s occupants would walk away from.
I’ll try to keep an open mind until iihs tests it to see if these results are confirmed but man on man did this thing s%*# the bed when it comes to a frontal crash.
The 2019 or 2020 wrangler was going to be my midlife crisis car. A car that would be fun and take me back to the 90s when I drove a wrangler as a teen.
I had a hard time swallowing the gas mileage. Yes I believe in global warming because it’s a fact but I told myself there will be a plug in hybrid or an efficient diesel. But the diesel is taking years and if the plug in is anything like it we will be lucky to see it by 2025. The real world 3.6 and 2.0 mileage has been pitiful.
Still I kept hoping the diesel or the plug in would come in. But oh man. The 2017 wrangler was a marginal performer in crash tests but this puppy managed to do even worse. Do I really want to drive a car that would leave me seriously injured or dead in a 31mph crash? I mean severe chest and leg injuries? That’s insane to think my wife’s RDX hits a pole and my wrangler at the same speed. She gets a lift home and I’m in the icu or worse.
I just can’t justify it anymore. I was going for more of an overlanding rig and the ram aced its crash tests. I have a wife and a kid and I’m just not sure I can stomach the idea that one or all of us could die in the same crash that a small sedan’s occupants would walk away from.
I’ll try to keep an open mind until iihs tests it to see if these results are confirmed but man on man did this thing s%*# the bed when it comes to a frontal crash.
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