New Jeep Owners: What was your last car, and WHY JEEP?

[SuMeRiaN]

05 TJ and still have it

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[VNT]

I got the wife a 18 Sahara in fall of 18. She uses it as a summer car, drives her 15 hemi Overland in the winter.
I kind of liked it, so ordered a 20 Rubicon last fall. Parted with my 03 PTGT winter car which had almost 190K miles of winter duty, so driving one of my other PTs for winter duty now. Will use the Rubicon and my 17 SRT as summer toys, drive my other convertible PTs as summer beaters and have my 02 WJ and 00 Durango as spares. Also have a 86 Daytona TurboZ I need to finish.

Intend to take the doors and hard top off the Rubicon , throw it under a car cover when not in use and drive it when nice out naked!

 

[viper88]

Haha, remember when someone put up a poll asking how much money everyone made and most people put $250K+? I thought people were just trolling, apparently not!

Not sure how accurate the poll was but I bet the number is up there. The FCA marketing people appearently figured this out. Explains the HUGE bump in MSRP for Wranglers. I can't believe you can order a $65K-$68K MSRP Wrangler today.

 

[viper88]

I got the wife a 18 Sahara in fall of 18. She uses it as a summer car, drives her 15 hemi Overland in the winter.
I kind of liked it, so ordered a 20 Rubicon last fall. Parted with my 03 PTGT winter car which had almost 190K miles of winter duty, so driving one of my other PTs for winter duty now. Will use the Rubicon and my 17 SRT as summer toys, drive my other convertible PTs as summer beaters and have my 02 WJ and 00 Durango as spares. Also have a 86 Daytona TurboZ I need to finish.

Intend to take the doors and hard top off the Rubicon , throw it under a car cover when not in use and drive it when nice out naked!

A little brand loyal I see!

 

[viper88]

After having owned Mustangs for the last 15+ years, my wife thought it would be more fun to have something we could enjoy that didn't require nice weather all the time and could go more places. So I had been looking at getting a Rubicon for a while but just could find that comfortable payment while still being able to enjoy life, so I ended up with a Willys because the dealer got me in the range I was trying to be at.

Before:

After:

I have a thing for Orange vehicles lol.

Love the orange for both!

I own a Rubicon but would have probably bought a WILLYS if it were available when I bought. Only thing I might change would the MT tires for ATs like the K02s. Tons of cheap take-off Rubicon wheels and tires so that is a easy fix.

Congrats on your Willys!

 

[viper88]

I too always had sports cars, but they’re useless in snowy weather. When I still had a mortgage I refrained from having new cars and wound up with a used Explorer. This got me into the suv thing. When it was time to treat myself I found the manual transmission (something I’m a fan of) to be rare so hence a new Jeep.
After experiencing the open air treat...Wow, I wish I’d bought one 30 years ago!

I bet a LOT of people feel the same way!

 

[VNT]

Yes ,tend to go mopar or no car LOL Did the Honda routine way back but smartened up.

I hope they make the new Challenger with a convertible, or will consider a new WL when they come out. note I generally drive them into the ground, but getting older now so doing repairs isnt as appealing anymore, hence dropping some coinage on newer ones. example Nursed 300K and 21 years out of my 89 Turbo Shadow. Treated me well like all the old ones, save a lot of money back in the day. Of course they were so much simpler to work on.
Key is properly rust proofing for them to last.

 

[jakebrake]

her last car was a mercury mariner.

why a jeep? because, that is what baby wanted. what baby wants...

 

[Cthehentz]

2011 Land Rover LR4 that I still own and drive, I've always had diesel pickups and toy haulers for family adventures or some sort of big vehicle to move family, this jeep is for me, mine and retirement gift lol.

 

[AZ Hella]

Traded in my 2014 Focus ST last October for a 2020 JLUS. I enjoyed 5 years with that car and miss it sometimes.

 

[brbutler]

1st Jeep for me. Here my past rides from the day I turned 16, in roughly chronological order.

1970 Chevy Townsman wagon (family hand-me-down in 1979 - sold at 125k miles)
1968 Pontiac LeMans convertible (1st car purchase for $150 in 1980 - sold at 156k miles)
1962 Austin Healey 3000 (father's toy car that I drove regularly)
1970 Chevy Biscayne (grandfather's hand-me down in 1981 when off to college - traded at 165k miles)
1979 VW Rabbit diesel (used - traded at 88k miles)
1982 Chevy Citation X-11 4-speed (used - traded at 100k miles)
1987 Acura Integra LS 5-speed (first new car - traded at 82k miles)
1989 Acura Integra LS 5 speed (new - sold at 40k miles)
1985 Chevy S10 Blazer (used - traded at 110k miles)
1992 Nissan Pathfinder SE 5-speed (new - stolen at 9 months old /15k miles)
1989 Mercury Topaz (company car)
1991 Ford Taurus (company car)
1994 Ford Taurus (company car)
1996 VW Passat GLX 5-speed (new - traded at 127k miles)
1992 VW Cabriolet (used - wife's car - sold at 90k miles)
1965 VW Karmann Ghia (used - toy car)
2001 Dodge Dakota Sport V-8 (new - sold at 50k miles)
1972 MGB (used - toy car)
1996 Range Rover (used - sold at 90k miles)
2003 Mini Cooper 5-speed (new - wife's car - traded at 85k miles)
2002 Audi allroad 6-speed (used - traded at 126k miles)
1977 Alfa Romeo Spider (used - toy car)
1978 Kawasaki KZ650 (used - learned that I prefer 4 wheels)
1983 Porsche 911SC (used - toy car)
2007 Honda Odyssey LX (new, mistake - traded at 9k miles)
2008 Volvo XC90 (new - traded at 49k miles)
1984 Porsche 928 Euro 5-speed (used - toy car - 52k miles) - current stable
2011 Mini Cooper S 6-speed (new - wife's car - traded at 50k miles)
2011 VW Jetta Sportwagen diesel 6-speed (new - traded at 49k miles)
2011 BMW X5 diesel (used - sold at 98k miles)
2016 VW GTI 6-speed (new - wife's - 56k miles) - current stable
2017 Dodge Durango R/T (new - sold at 37k miles)
2020 Jeep Wrangler Sahara 6-speed (new - 10k miles) - current stable

Favorites would have to be the VW/Audi/Porsche products. The Jeep is something totally different for me, and so far, I like it a lot!

 

[jespey]

I had a 2017 BMW X1, wife had 2017 Mini Countryman. We decided we wanted a weekend fun vehicle, so we bought a 2018 2dr. Wrangler JK. We enjoyed the Jeep so much, we decided to trade in all three and “downsize” to just two Wranglers, mine a 2020 JLUS and hers a 2020 JLUR. We couldn’t be happier.

 

[702SaharaJL]

Last car was a 2016 Cadillac ESV..upgraded to a 2020 Rubicon!

Why Jeep? First car was a 1970 Jeep Wagoneer. Jeep is easier to say than Cadillac.

 

[The Fixer]

My wife got her JLU in early 2018. One test drive and she was hooked! She had her heart set on Firecracker Red, and we wanted the dual top group and Tech package. Since it was still early in production and there were none locally optioned the way we wanted, the dealer ordered it for us. Before that, she had an '03 Jeep Liberty Limited which we got in September of '02 right after we got married. She loved that little KJ though, but after 16 years it was time for her to get a new vehicle LOL. It was starting to need some work, so we kept it and took it out of daily driver service. My son and I overhauled the cooling system, repaired a brake line, installed 4 new calipers, rotors and pads, and some other stuff. It'll be his when he gets his license next month.

I enjoyed driving her JLU so much that when the lease was up on my '16 Dodge Charger R/T I had to get a JL for myself. Picked up this 2-door '18 Sport in July of '19 and have really enjoyed it!

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