JTBurns
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- First Name
- Joe
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- Jun 28, 2020
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- Location
- Lancaster, PA
- Vehicle(s)
- Jeep Gladiator
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- #61
Yep totally agree "needing" a 3rd row is a very American thing. And I have the JT already, it was kind of more of a question of when we trade my wife's car, should it have a 3rd row. There are just many more appealing options that aren't and she doesn't want anything too big.So, if you want the JT and want someone to justify it to you, in Europe (and really, almost anywhere in the world) they'd laugh at the Gladiator not being fit for 3 children. Rest of the world would consider the Ford Focus or something similar the perfect family car for that affair.
Once you add a bed cover or a rack, forget it, the storage is just as good as a mini-van, if not better in most ways.
As a fellow father whose eldest is now 13 I can say that really the only time you "miss" a 3rd row for real is when you need to cart around your kids + their friends.
No one has bad things to say about cars like the Odyssey, hard to look at hat purchase and say "you purchased wrong." But the JT totally fits your lifestyle.
/devilsadvocate off
The three kids have fit well in the JT so far through 7 months and we even made a roundtrip from PA to FL and back unscathed!
I do appreciate the experience of you and others especially as the kids get older, and I'm concluding that 3rd rows are more convenient but not totally necessary which is great to know, and hopefully helpful to others with this arrangement.
Now we just need to find another vehicle I actually want to drive on the weekend, because otherwise I'm just gonna put all those miles on the Jeep
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