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As a faithful follower and consumer of your products, I feel let down.

1) There is only the softop from the mfg available. You guys “make it” for them. In my personal opinion, it’s ugly. Nobody wants the “ raised safari roof” I personally barely fit in my garage with a hardtop with or without the sunrider(that I love).

2) You continue to make products for other companies (which is fine) but as in gladiator stuff you only focused on the bed (tonneau covers and super top) and reused (very successfully) your sunrider.

On my previous JKU, I bought a NX plus… it was my favorite top of all time and was super happy to see the same style used on the JL wrangler platform. But to have only the oem safari style as the only one is very disappointing for even a niche vehicle as the gladiator is.

I’m being honest here… are you guys coming out with one or even R&D’ing a flat top soft top for the gladiator? If not, I want to know.

Thank you.

ps… picture of my previous jku

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Hey Bryan,
Thanks for being a customer and I'm sorry to hear you feel let down on your new Gladiator. Surely we will have complete soft top options for the Gladiator as the Jeep brand runs in our blood, all the way back to the MB that we still make tops for. The Gladiator is still a relatively new platform and as you described it as "niche", it will likely take some time for many of the aftermarket solutions to hit the market.
I would love to be able to provide you with exact details, but you have to respect that for strategic reasons I can't disclose the status of upcoming products with the transparency that you're asking for. Hopefully we bring something to market soon that will satisfy what you're looking for, until then, thanks again for being a customer.

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Hey Bryan,
Thanks for being a customer and I'm sorry to hear you feel let down on your new Gladiator. Surely we will have complete soft top options for the Gladiator as the Jeep brand runs in our blood, all the way back to the MB that we still make tops for. The Gladiator is still a relatively new platform and as you described it as "niche", it will likely take some time for many of the aftermarket solutions to hit the market.
I would love to be able to provide you with exact details, but you have to respect that for strategic reasons I can't disclose the status of upcoming products with the transparency that you're asking for. Hopefully we bring something to market soon that will satisfy what you're looking for, until then, thanks again for being a customer.

Lee
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@Bestop if you are creating a full soft top with more secure hard back window it would be great to know before I go and cut a hard top up to create it. The smaller opening with the sunrider for hard top just doesn't give me the top off convertible feeling I wanted the jeep for even though it is a nice product.

https://www.jeepgladiatorforum.com/forum/threads/full-sunrider-hardtop-hybrid.50222/#post-817286
 

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Hey Bryan,
Thanks for being a customer and I'm sorry to hear you feel let down on your new Gladiator. Surely we will have complete soft top options for the Gladiator as the Jeep brand runs in our blood, all the way back to the MB that we still make tops for. The Gladiator is still a relatively new platform and as you described it as "niche", it will likely take some time for many of the aftermarket solutions to hit the market.
I would love to be able to provide you with exact details, but you have to respect that for strategic reasons I can't disclose the status of upcoming products with the transparency that you're asking for. Hopefully we bring something to market soon that will satisfy what you're looking for, until then, thanks again for being a customer.

Lee
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Dear Bestop, please consider color options. This might be asking too much, but something in Sarge Green would be awesome! I'd even pay a premium for a custom color. Thank you!
 

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100% Bestop is the go to but they don’t offer anything I want for an almost 3 year old vehicle. I’ll be buying the suntop before next summer unless Bestop has something better. I don’t want a $1000 flip top or a $2000 soft top that’s portly designed.
 

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Dear Bestop, please consider color options. This might be asking too much, but something in Sarge Green would be awesome! I'd even pay a premium for a custom color. Thank you!
A tan soft top option is what we gladiator owners have been asking for since the trucks debut!
 

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On the other hand, @Bestop , thank you for one of the best jeep soft tops I have seen on my 2020 Gladiator, in over 5 models of Wranglers/Cjs. This Gladiator Premium soft top is one of the fastest and easiest tops to put up and take down. Most of my use is just with the rear corners and window out March to June and Sept to Dec I Mid-Atlantic). Fastest and easiest attachment system ever. Thank you.
 

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On the other hand, @Bestop , thank you for one of the best jeep soft tops I have seen on my 2020 Gladiator, in over 5 models of Wranglers/Cjs. This Gladiator Premium soft top is one of the fastest and easiest tops to put up and take down. Most of my use is just with the rear corners and window out March to June and Sept to Dec I Mid-Atlantic). Fastest and easiest attachment system ever. Thank you.
Appreciate the kind words :please: !!

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A soft top that folds all the way down to the bed for that full convertible feeling would be awesome. Many of us wouldn't mind losing that space in the bed for that.

Speaking for myself if I'm using my full bed I'm in utility and work mode and not concerned with opening the top. Lol
 

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A soft top that folds all the way down to the bed for that full convertible feeling would be awesome. Many of us wouldn't mind losing that space in the bed for that.

Speaking for myself if I'm using my full bed I'm in utility and work mode and not concerned with opening the top. Lol
Same, although it would be fine with me if it wasn't technically all the way down, just halfway close so it didn't look dumb or become a parachute. One of the competitor automatic full soft tops (prototype status) that I found on this site does that, so doesn't take up any bed space.

I really hope Bestop does have a timeline coming up for a more fully folding / roll-up soft top in the next 6 months. I'm planning to purchase for warm weather this year and would prefer to go Bestop because of the reputation. But have my eyes on a couple competitor products if nothing is available.
 

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A tan soft top option is what we gladiator owners have been asking for since the trucks debut!
Bumping this thread for an update. @Bestop: It is now 2023...Is there any chance you would consider releasing a tan soft top, even if it is a limited run? No R&D required just get the tan material...

I have a tan Softopper that I love and a black hard top that I would prefer to change to a tan soft top all year round...I miss my soft top from my JLUR! The only tan option right now is a SunTop and it does not seem like an all year round solution...

Edit - Another thought is you could source the same material as the tan Softopper now that you are the same company!

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Bumping this thread for an update. @Bestop: It is now 2023...Is there any chance you would consider releasing a tan soft top, even if it is a limited run? No R&D required just get the tan material...

I have a tan Softopper that I love and a black hard top that I would prefer to change to a tan soft top all year round...I miss my soft top from my JLUR! The only tan option right now is a SunTop and it does not seem like an all year round solution...

Edit - Another thought is you could source the same material as the tan Softopper now that you are the same company!

Cheers
@TheRealGinjaNinja Unfortunately there are no plans to make our tops in tan, I'm so sorry! I will share your feedback with the team though! :)
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