"CRider" (crider)
05/24/2014 at 00:12 • Filed to: None
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Jeep Wranglers would do the honorable thing and depreciate like a normal Chrysler product.
Nibby
> CRider
05/24/2014 at 00:20 |
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They're one of the few cars I'd never recommend buying used (unless you want the older ones).
E30Joe drives a Subaru
> CRider
05/24/2014 at 00:26 |
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Before I bought my Forester I was thinking about a used JK, until I looked at how much a used JK costs.
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CRider
> Nibby
05/24/2014 at 00:28 |
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I've been looking at TJs, but all the good ones are either high mileage, 4 bangers, or automatics. And the newer ones are too damn expensive for a beater to take the dogs off roading in. $40k+ for some of the new Rubicons, and the used ones aren't any less than that with 50k+ miles on them!
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Nibby
> E30Joe drives a Subaru
05/24/2014 at 00:30 |
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I've had both Forester and JK.
Forester over JK ANY day.
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Nibby
> E30Joe drives a Subaru
05/24/2014 at 00:38 |
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CAR_IS_MI
> CRider
05/24/2014 at 00:50 |
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Actually the only reason I bought my JK new. $2,000 more for a new one with 0 miles than a 2 year old one with 30,000 miles... ok.
Blake Noble
> CRider
05/24/2014 at 01:03 |
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I wholeheartedly agree.
Having owned three of them, I can't lie and say that I don't love Jeeps. I especially love Wranglers. A Wrangler is basic transportation at its absolute finest — it's dead reliable, isn't fraught with things that will break and will go everywhere and do everything 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. I almost bought a blue soft top 2004 TJ Wrangler once (4.0L six and six-speed manual) and I still consider it one of the most honest cars I've ever driven. Even the cushy JK models out now still feel direct in a way that no other car short of a two-seat roadster could ever hope to be.
But like you said, it's far too expensive to be the perfect example of basic transportation. I can't justify paying anything over $15,000 for a vehicle as well-equipped as a Mississippi outhouse and as lavish as a Siberian gulag. And like I said, I've tried justifying that before. The Wrangler I wanted three years ago was right around $16,000.
Also, on a related note, Dodge Challengers have a similar issue with depreciation (I say similar because a Dodge Challenger is more lavish than a Mississippi outhouse, if only just). I know this because I basically drove the one I had for one year and 22,000 miles absolutely free.
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CRider
> Blake Noble
05/24/2014 at 01:10 |
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There's no other way to put it, Wranglers are overpriced. I find a TJ that's got the 4.0 + 5 speed, 100k miles aaaaaaand it has no air conditioning and they want $13,000 for it.
motusid
> CRider
05/24/2014 at 01:20 |
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I wish Fiat gets their shit together and launches the Jeep brand in India soon. I have already started saving up to buy the Wrangler (it will take me years to save up enough, but it's worth it.)
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CRider
> motusid
05/24/2014 at 01:23 |
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Good luck getting your Jeep!
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Blake Noble
> CRider
05/24/2014 at 01:24 |
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That's also another very annoying thing about used Wranglers: the affordable ones all seem to have a billion miles on them. Granted, you're going to pay more now for a used car with less than a 100,000 miles than you would five or six years ago, but even still. Jeeps, and the Wrangler in particular, are poster children for overpriced high-mileage cars.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> motusid
05/24/2014 at 23:54 |
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Doesn't Mahindra make a knockoff of it?
z3ds
> CRider
05/25/2014 at 07:57 |
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motusid
> If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
05/28/2014 at 09:18 |
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The Wrangler? No.
Even if it did, it wouldn't have the charm and the features you get with an original product. Mahindra would have Indian-ised it so much, it would hardly resemble a Jeep anyway.