2026 Jeep Recon

[4wd]

I do this quite often - 22 mile long peninsula - each way …
Not everyone makes it …

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Oh, just ordered a transmission cooler and it ain’t for the road there …

 

[4wd]

Yet another Jeep that will collect dust on the lots for a few years. Stellantis' product development and marketing departments have no idea what most people actually want.

It's sad what's become of these iconic vehicles. When I was selling in the early 1990s, you could buy a soft-top 4-cylinder Wrangler (they were all 4WD back then) for a bit over $10-$11K with discount and rebates. A few bucks extra would net you a 4.0L engine, and for a few more bucks you could get an automatic transmission. A solid XJ could be had in the teens.

Yes, there's the matter of inflation, but the heart of the matter is this: Buyers back then wanted a trusty utility vehicle sans all the fluff and frills. If Jeep could figure out how to sell a base Wrangler near $20K they'd sell every one they could produce.

Their thinking over the past several decades gave us the Liberty, Compass, and "Renegade." This is what happens when bean counters - and not car guys - run these companies.

Oh

 

[jghall00]

I do this quite often - 22 mile long peninsula - each way …
Not everyone makes it …

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Story time? Locker? AT tires? Air pressure?

Never thought of sand as bring particularly challenging for AWD but that's just my lack of experience.

 

[Arc]

Management makes decisions based on best available data and acts based within their resource constraints. It is what it is with Stellantis. Arm chair quarterbacking is a cushy job. Been there recommending 10's to eventually 100's of millions in procurement decisions reporting into the president of a Fortune 50 company. Won a chairman's award saving my US counterpart 60+million USD a year. No armchair in sight.

It's about maximum profit with the least amount of sales. When all the money is pulled from parts and labor there is only one last resort and that's bumping up the price. You can't serve two masters and shareholders always win against the consumer.

 

[andrew_j]

Story time? Locker? AT tires? Air pressure?

Never thought of sand as bring particularly challenging for AWD but that's just my lack of experience.

The main thing with sand to me is airing down. As kids/teen we used to go Nantucket with relatives AMC Eagle who lived there which had a decent AWD. They taught us to air down.

 

[Rand]

Series hybrids just don't work well for the way most people use cars.

There's research out there that people don't plug in their PHEV's making them actually worse in the long run over a regular hybrid. So if you combine that with a range extender you're even worse off.

right dont give people what they want.. force that "green-ness" up their behind!
65k price tag is icing because we know that will likely be 70k+ out the door.

 

[jghall00]

right dont give people what they want.. force that "green-ness" up their behind!
65k price tag is icing because we know that will likely be 70k+ out the door.

Ha, not the way Stellantis has been going. It will be 10k+ price drops to entice sales. Non EV owners already think they need over 300 miles of range.

 

[Brons2]

It has the red tow hooks.... number one feature that makes consumers want to buy a Jeep.

I put red tow hooks on my Lightning. It needed a splash of color.

 

[OFFRD]

The Recon is a joke. Realistically, this thing will have 200 miles of summer range, 150 miles of winter range. It can't be an off-road adventure vehicle because there are no level 3 chargers growing out of trees. It can't be a lifestyle vehicle because the towing capacity is too miserable for a camper or large boat. Middle class Jeep people aren't going to buy it because the START price is $67k with destination charges, and that's before we even talk about trim levels or options. So WHO is going to buy this??