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Originally Posted by dgoldenz
After seeing a few on the road I have to say I still like the design of the Wrangler better. Ford kinda dropped the ball with the Raptor version, they could've done so much better but the 392 Wrangler is just better in every way for my purposes (except gas mileage).
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We’re keeping our TJ my wife bought new as a college grad gift to herself. We were tossing up between a new wrangler and bronco but seeing the crash test between the two decided the bronco. Of course there’s arguments for and against the video of the recent crash test like anything else, I know the wrangler didn’t have the skid plate in the test when bronco did and such. But also after turning in our ‘17 unlimited lease was also for safety. Too many blind spots. I didn’t drive it as much as my wife since it’s her daily but after driving it more towards the end of the lease and seeing how easy it was to potentially back over our 5 year old not even knowing it till all was too late was an eye opener. We didn’t have a back up cam on it, wouldn’t think we needed to but how things are designed these days they are building blind spots into the designs and forcing the must for the blind spot monitoring systems. We chose the 2 door bronco to help in eliminating the blind spot issues from the side door sills. And after driving a ‘21 2 door wrangler with having less blind spots than the 4 door the one thing they still can’t get right from the former Chrysler comp are the damn seats. Out of the 6 Chrysler products we have had to this day the 22 year old seats in the TJ hands down beat everything else from Chrysler we had. With a herniated disc in my lower back I was in so much pain whenever I was in the ‘17 unlimited. We were all ready to buy out our lease on the ‘17 till I ended up driving it more the last month of it. When I brought up my concerns to my wife she said every point I had hated about it she did as well. So why keep it.
Also the bronco in back is super more roomy for me than the ‘17 unlimited. The kiddo likes sharing Reese’s cup blizzards so I get stuck in the back on ice cream runs lol. A reason we take the jeep more than the e82 when getting ice cream but that even still is better than when I had to cram in the back of the ‘15 mustang we leased.
For us there’s no rush in the delivery aspect, no current leases to turn in I typically wait till the new contracts are signed before committing to a car purchase so that’s why I don’t mind at all waiting it puts it smack dab at the time we’d want to take delivery.