Wheels Australia Tests Jeep Gladiator against 10 other Utes.

[Reasons]

This was an interesting watch. What do you all think?

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[slowstang305]

Very surprised to see such weak performance from the Ranger Raptor. The Gladiator did exactly how I thought it would.

 

[j.o.y.ride]

Gladiator is best offroad, 2nd best infotainment, and meh towing. As expected.

 

[Knightindullarmor]

"The JEEP highlighted why, off the shelf, its the most competent 4x4 money can buy..."

And that is why we drive JEEPs.

 

[Knightindullarmor]

I'm not so sure regarding towing. Still not sure if Willys can be had with max tow. If It can, it would be best of all worlds. Mine has standard tow package (6,000lbs) but LSD, rock rails, 2.5" Fox shocks, & 32" MTs. Still 100% happy with my purchase of the exact jeep that I wanted/needed.

 

[legacy_etu]

Anyone else think it was funny that the reviewer didn
t know what the molle straps were called and what their function was?

 

[stingrey]

A handful of performance ratings dependent upon tire contact patch and these guys use a Rubi with MT tires.
These reviews always seem to intentionally set up the Jeep to fail.

 

[jpjpjp]

A handful of performance ratings dependent upon tire contact patch and these guys use a Rubi with MT tires.
These reviews always seem to intentionally set up the Jeep to fail.

That same set-up helped the Gladiator crush off-road performance. What should they have tested? The Rubicon is the supposed pinnacle of the Jeep Wrangler/Gladiator models, no?
The Rubicon controls, dash, etc. also bumped up their interior scores as well. If it was a base model, I'm guessing those scores would have suffered.

 

[RavensEyeOffroad]

hilux with street tires only .5 points away from a Rubicon offroad?

 

[PDiddy]

What I got from this video is that Australia has all the good trucks. What the hell?

 

[Radio Guy]

Look at all those right side steering wheels. They must have to do that so the trucks don't fall off the earth, being Australia is upside down from the real world up here in the US.....

 

[RavensEyeOffroad]

What I got from this video is that Australia has all the good trucks. What the hell?

I dunno none of those really looked appealing to me. A few looked like concept art trucks from a comic book series or something.

 

[NachoRuby]

hilux with street tires only .5 points away from a Rubicon offroad?

Can't say I'm surprised. There's a reason why they are so popular worldwide in areas with underdeveloped roads, and in foreign militaries. Toyota trucks are tough.

 

[RavensEyeOffroad]

Can't say I'm surprised. There's a reason why they are so popular worldwide in areas with underdeveloped roads, and in foreign militaries. Toyota trucks are tough.

but street tires arent...

 

[stingrey]

That same set-up helped the Gladiator crush off-road performance. What should they have tested? The Rubicon is the supposed pinnacle of the Jeep Wrangler/Gladiator models, no?
The Rubicon controls, dash, etc. also bumped up their interior scores as well. If it was a base model, I'm guessing those scores would have suffered.

Agreed...
...Though they should have put similar type tires on all vehicles.
An AT tire would have still kept the Jeep near the top of vehicles in off road performance while drastically improving it for the road tests.
How many people buy a Jeep with MT?...Not many.

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