Jeep doesn't have a side rating. if you can guess why. https://www.nhtsa.gov/vehicle/2023/Jeep/Gladiator#safety-ratings-side
Cause it’d be shit, right? Wonder if the 2024 will have one with the airbags. And why does jeep get to not list one— shouldn’t there be one anyways so we can see as consumers?
idk. but they did the bare min by adding seat airbags and nothing else. Its one of the reasons Gladiators are more costly to insure over other midsize pickups. Cus if you get T-boned your dead. I don't mind cus i ride bikes. They seem pretty good in a rollover for a convertible tho.
That’s how I viewed it: I bought my last wrangler after selling a motorcycle. This was pricier but four seasons, bring a friend, and better protection. But now I have kids and there’s nothing back there for the used ones, and electric cars are heavyyyyy . Imagine getting boned by a Rivian or cyber truck at what, 6000 lbs?
yup and it'll do more damage than a 1 ton truck cus it'll have the same momentum but a smaller impact profile. especially with the plastic front end that will fold around the cabin bar and intrude into the cab. A true steel bumper like a ranch hand on a 3500 might actually catch enough side on the on a jeep to push the whole thing rather than invade into the cabin. But hey what can you do? just keep your head on a swivel and double check before crossing an intersection. It's gonna hurt whether you see Dale or not.
For me it has to do with the weather here, we get about 4 weeks of nice weather a year, the rest too hot, or too cold to be comfortable riding in the breeze. and when you factor in the fact the 60% of the time we have dust blowing its hardly worth taking the Jeep apart. I do however enjoy know I can do that even though I probably won't
