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V8’s On The Horizon……..(?)

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What I've come to learn is that if you keep missing your predictions, you simply keep making more videos about the prediction. That way, you can never say you were really "wrong" just that it's "in the future". When really you're just wrong a bunch.

I'll take credible sources over YouTube clickbait any day.
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I can’t remember if I posted this here or not.

Ten 392 JLUs on the lot in Boone NC. No JTs. I’ll be up there tomorrow.

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A gladiator with 5.7 in it is $105,000. Way, way, way out of my price range.
The prices in the JL’s are just as bad, if not worse.
 

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A gladiator with 5.7 in it is $105,000. Way, way, way out of my price range.
The prices in the JL’s are just as bad, if not worse.
$106,000 MSRP

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A gladiator with 5.7 in it is $105,000. Way, way, way out of my price range.
The prices in the JL’s are just as bad, if not worse.
You can buy a new Gladiator and take it to AMW for a swap and be under $100k. Their cheapest Hemi swap is $32k.
 

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You can buy a new Gladiator and take it to AMW for a swap and be under $100k. Their cheapest Hemi swap is $32k.
If I wanted one badly enough - that's the route I'd go.
You can get a really nicely equipped Rubicon X after incentives for the mid-50s. So you could get something really top-end for cheaper than factory.
 

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That's why the Inline 6 with 420 Hp will be a deal and will outperform the 5.7 in every way.
 

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His other ride was your mom
He stole your GF and dated my mom? What a legend, my mom was a fucking bad ass before she passed away 13 years ago from ALS.

You should buy a V8, it might help your boxer insecurities.
 

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I don’t know if a V8 in the Gladiator would need to start out as a clean slate engineering project, with the JL V8 already in existence.
It would not, 2/3 the work is done on the engineering side.

It's the capacity and the assembly side that would have to tool up and make big investments.

And, like in the video, if it sold like crazy, it would drag their CAFE averages down, which is why they charge like crazy, to pay them fines lol.
 

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He stole your GF and dated my mom? What a legend, my mom was a fucking bad ass before she passed away 13 years ago from ALS.

You should buy a V8, it might help your boxer insecurities.
Who said anything about dating?
 
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And, like in the video, if it sold like crazy, it would drag their CAFE averages down, which is why they charge like crazy, to pay them fines lol.
💡That’s an important aspect of the pricing equation! Makes sense.
 
 







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