I think it will sell unbelievably well and I wish I had one. I think FCA did an amazing job overall, but I do agree about the back door lines and have echoed similar sentiment here on the bboard.
While I appreciate that from an engineering and payload standpoint that a Gladiator that looked...
True....but why!!! It's not about retooling, or pre-launch marketing, or product distribution. That happens all year round, and new models could be released whenever.
I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not as if it would be a good idea to roll out the metaphorical new water jet skies to market...
That's truly an excellent engineering point Dave. I was thinking it a great opportunity for the power top because I was thinking along the lines of the engineering limitations of a soft top in this situation, and that I'm not quite sure how it would fold completely back without taking up truck...
It seems to me OP that everyone so far has explained what has been and will be done, but not why.
People want "new" cars; the latest model. Classifying it into the future means the people who got it in November of year "X" don't become disenfranchised in June of year "X" + 1, while those in...
To Jody's tone of, "we'll know when it's truly released," which I agree with, maybe we should consider that FCA's "mistake" in for a short time putting this info online was anything but, and even potentially misinformation in part, and/or done to stir the pot of interest.
I do respect though...
Someone replied to me that two hard tops meant black and paint matched, but I agree, this is a great opportunity to repurpose the power top technology given concerns over how a soft top might fold down, if at all, beyond sunrider (i.e. 1st) position, and not block a rear view.
I'm interested in knowing how it all works, and how similarly or differently than its JL[U] counterparts, and speaking of "parts" what's the same.
Like take the back of the soft top on the Gladiator. Is it the same as the one for the JL[U]?
Does the soft top open? What's the deal with the...
I think you're saying @homerun that for functional reasons the picture in my post https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/2020-jeep-gladiator-official-pics-and-specs.8214/page-3#post-145662 my not be out of the running as the implementation of the lines between the cab and truck bed...
I seek no debate on this @ls6. I certainly have no evidence that says otherwise. But why say you so?
Is it that you just don't think FCA cutesy enough to have put this up on the website deliberately (not accidentally) for a brief time with false info....or perhaps you're confident in @JAY 's...
Time for me to start working on designing the 3rd row seat aftermarket option, and the cab cover aftermarket option, and the power-top cab-cover aftermarket option, and the headliners, and the roof rack (both over cab only and over cab and truck bed), and 5th wheel (I kid!) and …...
I'd like to see, when all the smoke clears from a year of sales, how many people bought this who might have never bought a truck, or who might have purchased a JLU if the Gladiator wasn't going to be made available, or didn't by a JLU waiting on this new rig.
Silly question...does this come in...
Thanks for the design facts Billy. Maybe I just need to get use to it. I'm fine with FCA using the JL front end, I just think the lines between the cab and truck bed need to angle forward rather than drop down more vertically. I agree a wider back door would likely be for aesthetic only, not...
I'm having trouble with the lines formed at the back of the rear door. Where it narrows to become much narrow at the bottom was out of necessity for the JL, not the JT.
One of two things I think should have happened: make the front and back doors of similar width at the bottom, or this below...