I finally got to ride in one of these a couple of months ago, and it is such a cool little vehicle. Apparently it is possible to register one in Alabama as a mini-truck; if I had $20k to burn I'd get one in a heartbeat.The Mahinda Roxor is pretty fantastic. Little turbo 3 diesel on it, no emissions and plenty of street legal kits out. I checked one out at a local farm implement & machinery shop and they are beautifully simple.
The Roxor is pretty cool, but weighs 63% more than a Samurai and about the same HP? No wonder they top out a 55mph.......For $20K one could be a pretty built engine swapped Samurai that is already street legal and possibly better road manners?
No he had Texas plates. Really cool shade of blue. He had the top open. Well he's driving it out in the Hill Country which is pretty deserted area for the most part so maybe he has a way around it. Really nice looking little vehicle
I run South Dakota plates on my SXS so I don't have to trailer it in NC. State reciprocity on vehicle tags is a gray area and LE looks the other way. Check out dirtlegal.com... they can get you plated on many vehicles. Opens up all kinds of possibilities as long as you understand the risk of driving a non-crash tested vehicle on the road.
lol. A Renegade doesnt even remotely compare with the old TJ. It has awd and independent suspension, TJ/Wrangler is a straight axle. And there really is not any other street legal new options aside from the 2 door Wrangler that can compare
Actually alot of wrangler/gladiators would probably love the renegade. Jay could open up a Renegade forum and members would post long, well thought out threads on their "build" describing the affectionate name they came up with for their "rigs" and what color schemes and accents they are planning for interior and exterior upgrades. There would be long threads about gas milage and a handful of members confused why they can't 27 mpg like everyone else.
You my friend are 100% correct but that’s my point. They have a two door already that shares a boat load of parts, going smaller and the cost would be prohibitive and require engineering, safety testing, separate production line etc. That space is already crowded and they’d be stealing buyers from themselves.
That is because their engines are high output, high rpm snowmobile engines. I have a KRX1000, 115 hp in an engine that weighs about 200lbs. Top speed in the 65mph range at 8500 rpm or so. 35 inch tires with no suspension mods required. They are all CVT drive (except the Honda Talon). If you get into the Polaris turbo machines, you get into the 170hp range and they run >100mph, but they weigh a lot less than a KRX and are fairly "fragile". The KRX is a built rock crawler the rzrs are better for dunes and the like.
oh no doubt your right. I know a smaller version, at least made by Jeep, will never be. Us Americans are addicted to the ‘go bolder than anyone has ever bolded before!’ Aspect. Alls I am saying is that I do wish the wrangler, and even gladiator, would shrink just a tad, realizing it never will. Which is one reason I will never sell my TJ. Because that little thing is just amazing where it can go. The two door wrangler is longer and wider than the TJ. Not by much. But enough that makes the TJ able to get places the wrangler would struggle in. But a similar statement can be said in favor of the wider wrangler compared to the TJ. It all depends on individual use cases. But like you said Jeep is a business and businesses make money. More people want bigger bolder than smaller and simpler. Which is why we have what is currently available. And this is not to talk negative about the wrangler or gladiator either. I love my gladiator. it is the second best vehicle i have eve owned next to the TJ.
If you have a YJ, you've probably been into Jeeps longer than I've been alive, so you know this, but when I got my first Jeep (an XJ) in the early 2000's, having 35's was a big deal, even for a TJ. If you had 35's you were freaking serious.
Do you understand business and sales?
