I'm not the target audience either. I'm a white hetero Gen X. No one cares to pander to me. 😀
I'm just hearing a common refrain about that show in particular, and it's always from the same demographic.
It's 2025. You don't have to live like a caveman...and neither does your vehicle. You know you can crawl over rocks while cranking some Nickelback from your Spotify playlist, right? One does not have to affect the other.
It's the idiotic assumption that one's personal beliefs are more broadly shared than they actually are and anyone that differs is wrong, broken, dumb, or "tone deaf". It's a form of cognitive bias called false consensus effect.
I had an 84 GMC C10 stepside for a while. It had zero amenities. Well that's not entirely true, it had an AM radio. That was about it. It also had a progression of increasingly powerful small block chevys that eventually broke two transmissions. It wouldn't offroad but holy shit it embarrassed a...
That's not true either. The "six" of inline-6 or V6 both divide into 360/720 equally...same for four and eight. In your example it's more about firing order. You can space the throws on the crank by degrees of a circle for perfect balance. If you engineer the cam's timing events/firing order to...
THIS! ^^^^^^^
A bunch of crusty off-road enthusiasts that still long for the days of zip-up windows and zero electronic anything are not the target demographic for modern Jeeps.
YUP. I can actually come up with more cons than pros if we're talking inline's torque capabilities.
For example...one factor that is inarguably true is the fact that displacement has more to do with torque than anything else. So, something like a 1:1 ratio of lb/ft per Cu in is easy to achieve...
There's no real argument.
Some people believe the longtime shadetree myth that inline engines make more torque than Vs. It's one of those things that just gets repeated and passed down without any actual thought or experience applied. They use groupthink and personal anecdotes as proof.
And...
It was a well done commercial.....
My thing against it is......it's the Super Bowl, you're Jeep, and you got Harrison fucking Ford....have some fun with it. It was too serious to me.
Have him reprise a scene of Indiana Jones wheeling over a pile of crushed Cybertrucks....Indy beats the Nazis...