JEEP WRANGLER 2.0 RUBICON 3-DOOR
There’s a facelifted version of the Jeep Wrangler on the way in the next few months. It has a new take on the famous seven-slot grille, additional safety features, revised wheel designs and a more upmarket cabin with 12-way power-adjustable front seats and a 12.3” touch-screen running the company’s latest Uconnect 5 infotainment system, and the Dana rear axle on the Rubicon model gains strength by becoming fully-floating for
the first time.
Worth waiting for? Quite possibly, yes, given that pricing remains unchanged – and since that means a Wrangler will cost from £60,785 OTR in Sahara form and £62,785 for the Rubicon, you’re going to want everything you can get to ease the pain. It remains hard to believe that the previous model to this one started in the teens. Anyway, facelift incoming or not Jeep can sell every Wrangler they can get their hands on in the UK, as those prices
illustrate. So between now and when those first deliveries hit these shores, you’re going to get the chance to buy one of the soon-to become-old-shape examples at a discountof precisely zero.
That’s what we’ve got here. It’s a Rubicon, so it comes with heavy-duty axles, locking diffs, sway bar disconnect and so on, and it’s a 3-door. Bit of a rarity, that – at the time of writing, on Jeep’s UK website there’s no sign of such a thing being available to buy from new. Like all Wranglers over here, it’s powered by a 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine that sends 272bhp and 295lbf.ft through an 8-speed auto box.
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