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Fifth Gear says Wrangler sucks

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Fair enough, they pretty much admitted themselves that they "just don't get it!"

Plus 4 grown adults in a 2 door is never going to cut it so a bit of an unfair test anyway.

Us Brits are are a hard bunch to please ;)
 

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Other than the subjective scores at the end, nothing they said was necessarily wrong. It's a two door Wrangler. It is loud, The back seat isn't really meant for adults. They complained about the power, and with 4 adults it will feel more sluggish (no matter the power train). Look at how many people in this forum complain about the steering. I don't understand why they were complaining about the location of the subwoofer, because you probably shouldn't be putting a dog behind the back seat.

Its a 2 door Wrangler, it comes with a lot of compromises compared to other vehicles. And I love mine.
 

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I guess it depends on who the four adults are but you could be talking 1000lbs of people. That's about 25% of the weight of the empty vehicle. Of course it's going to make for sluggish performance. But as a grown up these days I've stopped expected objective opinions from any source.
 

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Fifth Gear is like the wannabe version of the old Top Gear with Clarkson, May and Hammond. Think of it as a group of ok but no real talent people that happen to have a tv show. I'd rather watch TFL on YouTube. And that says all you need to know...
 

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I also notice at the beginning they showed stats, they listed it with 200hp, So they must have been using the 2.2L diesel.


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Classic confirmation bias.
For sure and similar criticisms of a Land Rover would be described as ‘character’.

It’s true that they don’t ‘get it’, the U.K. has no market for an off roader like the Wrangler, Jeep only sells a few hundred per year here. This is also why the new Defender was never going to have serious off road capabilities, there’s no demand for it.
 

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I didn’t think people actually sat in the back seat of a two door after high school.
In my old JK 2 door I took out the back seat the day I bought it. More room for my dog.
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