GECKO GREEN Gladiator Club

[spanishmack]

What wheels are those?

Those are TIS Offroad, 555Bs, 17x9s

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[MonkeySkunks]

Got a response, 372 was all trim levels. Fairly rare Jeep we drive.

If that is evenly distributed across the country there are roughly 7 or 8 per state. I saw two this morning not including mine so I may have seen almost half the Gecko Gladiators in my state on my morning commute today.

 

[Jocww]

Got a response, 372 was all trim levels. Fairly rare Jeep we drive.

If that is evenly distributed across the country there are roughly 7 or 8 per state. I saw two this morning not including mine so I may have seen almost half the Gecko Gladiators in my state on my morning commute today.

Well I have one of those too. So lets find the other 371 owners

 

[DirkG]

Got her this morning. One of the few new ones left out there.

That is one attractive beast. In that color, it's begging for some headlight bezels. Those wheels really set that color off. ?

 

[MonkeySkunks]

Well I have one of those too. So lets find the other 371 owners

I don't know where those dudes are but you'll know when you see one.

 

[mjcx777]

Might legitimately be a 3rd of those 372 rubis on this forum haha

 

[49Truck]

Got a response, 372 was all trim levels. Fairly rare Jeep we drive.

If that is evenly distributed across the country there are roughly 7 or 8 per state. I saw two this morning not including mine so I may have seen almost half the Gecko Gladiators in my state on my morning commute today.

I'm shocked the number is this low. I'm very happy with that low number. Thanks for checking
that out. Now let's hope they don't bring the color back because it is such a low number. Not
for about 10 years anyway. My opinion only. I like being different.

 

[Syndula]

Got a response, 372 was all trim levels. Fairly rare Jeep we drive.

If that is evenly distributed across the country there are roughly 7 or 8 per state. I saw two this morning not including mine so I may have seen almost half the Gecko Gladiators in my state on my morning commute today.

Thank you for getting that information, I am surprised the number is so low but am excited to have gotten my hands on one.

 

[MonkeySkunks]

372 seems way too low to be correct but it's possible considering the circumstances surrounding Gecko.

• Up until orders for the JLs opened up nobody was even sure that Gecko was anything more than a rumor. Gecko JT orders opened up months after the model year is usually ended.
• Orders closed before they started manufacturing them so nobody really knew about them unless you had a connection or were on this or similar boards. You didn't see one on a lot and think "I'd like one of those."
• There were issues about what the actual color would look like (thanks Jeep Marketing) and nobody was sure until the 1st JL photos showed up but even then some people thought the JT would be a different color. Nobody really knew for sure what the color would be until months after orders had closed when the 1st JT showed up in Gecko.
• They opened up for orders and were built during covid/chip shortage and generally the biggest automotive shortage in recent history. They shut the plant down a few times while they were being manufactured. I'm surprised that dealers were able to order any at all. This is when they only had two or three new vehicles on every car lot in the country. The very limited number of them might be why dealerships were able to order them so the color run would be worth Jeep's time. I don't think any dealership cared what they were ordering at the time as long as they could get it in their lot.

All that being said, it does seem like they might consider opening Gecko back up at the end of this MY because it came out in such a strange time and sold so few.

Hopefully, they assume it's a shit color that nobody wants and they write it off forever. Jeep, if you're reading this: GECKO IS A HORRIBLE COLOR THAT NOBODY WANTS....EVER!

 

[MonkeySkunks]

Here's two of them.

 

[DirkG]

Here's two of them.

We were just in Hawaii (island of Kauai) and we saw two of them. We saw one (a Sport) at Foodland and later saw a Rubicon on the road. My son said, "hey Dad, there's another Gatorade Gladiator!"

 

[Akgladiator]

Here's two of them.

does gecko paint has metallic flakes in them?

 

[MonkeySkunks]

does gecko paint has metallic flakes in them?

Not that I can see.

 

[rtjeepman]

Got a response, 372 was all trim levels. Fairly rare Jeep we drive.

If that is evenly distributed across the country there are roughly 7 or 8 per state. I saw two this morning not including mine so I may have seen almost half the Gecko Gladiators in my state on my morning commute today.

Wow. That is a very plausible number since they were offered for such a short period at the end of the ordering window. That makes for a small, tight community of Gecko Gladiators that we are part of. Thank you for inquiring about those numbers. I feel like we were all curious.

 

[Sublime]

When I was on the Charger forums we tracked all of the Daytona and Super Bee trim levels and color. State, Build #, Owner if we knew it. For my Sublime it was #714 of 1500 on the dash tag.

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