Hurricane disappointment - no Hurricane engine in the next three years

[Renegade]

The guy didn’t say the Hurricane motor wasn’t coming to the Gladiator within 3 years. He said he was answering the question in a way so he wouldn’t get fired, then he started talking about electrification. He then said that was easy. This makes me think the eTorque 3.6 with be the first electrified Gladiator motor, because it’s already available as an option in the Wrangler. 4Xe may be next, but I think they are holding the 3.0t in their back pocket for when the Ranger Raptor goes on sale in the US.

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[258_T18A]

The 3.6 is on its way out.

The 4xe coming to the Gladiator is what he's talking about in the video.

After the Ram gets the Hurricane 6, the next vehicle to get it (if any) will be the Grand Cherokee, and it will likely cost a fortune there.

If they ever develop a Hurricane 6 based version of the 4xe, the Grand Wagoneer will get it first.

The Hurricane 6 is not coming to the current generation Wrangler or Gladiator. It might come to the next generation, but that is probably 5+ years away.

I wish this weren't the case but it is.

 

[Rusty PW]

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[T-Rock]

The guy didn’t say the Hurricane motor wasn’t coming to the Gladiator within 3 years. He said he was answering the question in a way so he wouldn’t get fired, then he started talking about electrification. He then said that was easy. This makes me think the eTorque 3.6 with be the first electrified Gladiator motor, because it’s already available as an option in the Wrangler. 4Xe may be next, but I think they are holding the 3.0t in their back pocket for when the Ranger Raptor goes on sale in the US.

Hope you are right. They should recognize that the Gladiator needs a bigger engine option both for the vehicle use cases we have and to compete with other brands. If they don't then I agree with many here that the sales will decrease & Jeep will lose customers IMO.

 

[Raven65]

I hope they don't offer any great new engine options for the Gladiator in the next few years, because I just got my new '22 a few months ago and I won't be ready to trade before then. I'm already disappointed enough that all '24 Wranglers/Gladiators are coming standard with adaptive cruise control/automatic emergency braking and side curtain airbags (although I can see those being a problem in serious off-roading unless you can turn them off). Anyway... I love my Gladiator and I'm perfectly fine with driving the 3.6 Pentastar for the next few years. I'll be interesting to see what they DO decide to offer in it though.

I've also seen some of the speculation on here about whether the Gladiator will survive at ALL in the face of the new mid-size pickups coming soon from Toyota and GM... but I'm not concerned about that. The Gladiator is just so different from those and any other "normal" pickup - with its solid axles and the ability to be a convertible with the doors off & windshield folded down (does anyone ever do that?). It's a JEEP first... and a pickup second. Nothing else on the road is even remotely like it. It's not going anywhere IMHO.

 

[Phishs]

What is y’all’s opinion on why Jeep wouldn’t put the hurricane in the Gladiator? I understand not doing the V8 but why skip replacing the current 6 cylinder with the new 6 cylinder engine? Seems like a no brainer unless I’m missing something.

 

[Lunentucker]

What is y’all’s opinion on why Jeep wouldn’t put the hurricane in the Gladiator? I understand not doing the V8 but why skip replacing the current 6 cylinder with the new 6 cylinder engine? Seems like a no brainer unless I’m missing something.

It won't fit in the current engine bay.

 

[Phishs]

It won't fit in the current engine bay.

Gotcha. I know it’s an inline 6 but I assumed it’d be similar in size as the old 4.0 so I thought it’d fit. But if it doesn’t, that’s a good reason not to use it. lol

 

[Sweetums]

What is y’all’s opinion on why Jeep wouldn’t put the hurricane in the Gladiator? I understand not doing the V8 but why skip replacing the current 6 cylinder with the new 6 cylinder engine? Seems like a no brainer unless I’m missing something.

Packaging, for one thing. The I6 is way longer than a V6 and would require significant changes to the chassis and body to make it fit.

 

[Phishs]

Packaging, for one thing. The I6 is way longer than a V6 and would require significant changes to the chassis and body to make it fit.

Yeah, I was thinking it’d be a similar size as the old 4.0 that was in the TJ but it must be bigger than that inline 6.

 

[JeepCode4]

It's going to be a hybrid hurricane. Probably less boost to keep temps down. Supplementing with hybrid motor.

So basically, a tropical storm

jokes aside, the 5.7 hemi would have been the perfect power plant for this truck. But they’d have had to pull some shit for it to meet MPG. Remember the gladiator is supposed to be a Tacoma competitor.

that said, the hurricane would likely
Not work with the current design properly. The 3.6 is already detuned due to heat or we’d have over 300hp like in the charger. I can’t imagine the hurricane having any lesser of a time managing the heat from the FI system.

which takes me back to the 5.7. The diesel was my preference originally when I bought mine but there wasn’t any, and then the CP4 issue. Jeep should have thought harder about this and sourced a Cummins small block for this application instead of the VM Motori diesel and the 5.7 ideally.

im fine with the 3.6 motor and its power I just think its powerband doesn’t allow for any modifications, and would have preferred the 5.7 personally

 

[Lunentucker]

Gotcha. I know it’s an inline 6 but I assumed it’d be similar in size as the old 4.0 so I thought it’d fit. But if it doesn’t, that’s a good reason not to use it. lol

A dealership tech, who attended training on the GW with the Hurricane, told me that you have to take the entire front end off to do anything past routine maintenance on the engine.

 

[Sweetums]

Yeah, I was thinking it’d be a similar size as the old 4.0 that was in the TJ but it must be bigger than that inline 6.

I have a TJ Unlimited parked next to my Gladiator, the hood on the TJ is significantly longer than the Gladiator/JL hood. This is a real advantage off road, but it means the engine bay on the JT/JL is very tightly packed.

 

[Rusty PW]

So basically, a tropical storm

jokes aside, the 5.7 hemi would have been the perfect power plant for this truck. But they’d have had to pull some shit for it to meet MPG. Remember the gladiator is supposed to be a Tacoma competitor.

that said, the hurricane would likely
Not work with the current design properly. The 3.6 is already detuned due to heat or we’d have over 300hp like in the charger. I can’t imagine the hurricane having any lesser of a time managing the heat from the FI system.

which takes me back to the 5.7. The diesel was my preference originally when I bought mine but there wasn’t any, and then the CP4 issue. Jeep should have thought harder about this and sourced a Cummins small block for this application instead of the VM Motori diesel and the 5.7 ideally.

im fine with the 3.6 motor and its power I just think its powerband doesn’t allow for any modifications, and would have preferred the 5.7 personally

If Jeep would have used a Cummins small block. Chances are that it would have the damn CP4 fuel pump.

 

[JeepCode4]

If Jeep would have used a Cummins small block. Chances are that it would have the damn CP4 fuel pump.

So they put the CP3 back on my 23 cummins ram, 19/20 were the only two years with the CP4, so I think they learned their lesson. Not sure why the VM Motori motors in the gladiator still have this problem, there must be a reason why they haven’t swapped back to the CP3

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