Will the US 2019 Rubicon get Selec-trac, like the EU version?

[Kent5]

They already offer the Rubicon with the almost all of the touches of the Sahara: leather interior, painted flares and body color hard top.

What would be the point of a Sahara with Rubicon hard bits? Different hood decals?

I can see the appeal of the fulltime 4WD transfer case on a 'normal' SUV/minivan etc, and I think the Sahara is aimed at that crowd -- the folks who want a semi-lux family utility in a non-boring, genuinely-off-roadable package to set themselves apart from the crossover-crowded 'soft-roader' market. IMHO, the Rubicon is not aimed at those people.

No sense having separate models that are differentiated only by the decals on the hood.

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[AlexK]

Absolutely not. That’s what the Sahara is for.

Exactly.

Here in the UK, all JLs have Selec-Trac whether we like it or not, even though FCA confuses matters by calling it Command-Trac in the Sport and Sahara and Rock-Trac in the Rubicon. They're all still the Selec-Trac transfer case, although in the Rubicon it has a 4:1 low ratio.

Frankly, I think I can speak for the entire country when I say we would gladly swap our ridiculous watered-down Rubicon-in-name-only JL for your proper US-spec version.