My local dealer has four XL's. Only one of them is under $30K though. The other three are one at almost $31K, and two at just above $32K.
I've known a few guys in the Bay Area over the years commuting from the sierras/foothills. When your doing that kind of commute daily in an urban environment you're looking at 6 hours minimum on the road each day. That 9-5 becomes a 6am to 8pm 14 hour day... assuming no overtime. By the time you shower and eat dinner you won't have 8 hours to sleep. You don't live in that fancy house in the suburbs, your family does. If that's your idea of living have at it. I still say you're money ahead to find a new job or move. Hell an apartment in the city would be cheaper than the commute especially if you had the option to pick up a couple hours of overtime instead of driving 6+ hours for free even if you only slept there 4 nights per week.
Oh i agree with you, no way I'm doing that kind of thing. 100% with ya.
As a construction worker, the commute changes with every job. I've had a couple that were pushing 100 miles, but those were always opposite commute traffic out to some remote location. When I can set the cruise at 75mph the entire way, in the company car that I don't pay for gas, I can live with that. 100+ miles with commute/ city traffic could easily be 4+ hours on a bad day. You better make 2x+ what you could make close to home because you're working 14+ hours a day anyway.
F*@ckinghell! I just got a new auxiliary battery at 8500 miles and 10 months. The engineers at Jeep need to be beaten profusely about the face and neck. The ESS sucks. I’m just starting a claim with customer care about the fuse block. A 150A fuse is the size of a 30A plug-in fuse, and they are adamant that they only fail if you modify them. Hard pass on the Recon, but, what about a 5.7L in the gladiator? Stellantis are you listening?Good point! With how bad the batteries they use are, imagine their choice for an EV!
When they say 250 mile range, that's not the charge, it's the lifespan of the battery!
The idea they thought they needed an Aux battery to do ESS is stupid. My 2024 mustang has ESS and doesn't have an aux battery. I don't even understand the point, it's all connected to each other, it's not starting off one battery unless there is an isolator, but even the manual says they are not isolated.
I think you could most likely easily remove the aux battery and just run some thick cables up to the main battery. What's the point of it.
That's a pre-production hand built model. Has about 0 in common with where and how the production version will be built. I hope the YouTube dipshits that thought it was ok to rip it apart are prosecuted for vandalism... at least they make the prosecutions job easy by filming and posting it all.
Relax, most people know concept pre-production cars are not to be nickpicked on build quality. But to get the idea of what the car would be.
I'm not remotely concerned with how they portrayed the pre-production build quality. It's the entitlement to think you can sit in someone else's hand built, one off, pre-production display model and tear it apart. I bet if we lop one of there hands off and put it on the hood it will be the most viral video they'll ever be in.
Likes and views trump logic and wisdom.
