Five Reasons to Buy a Jeep Wrangler Today
Loud. Unreliable. Bumpy. And beloved.
In 2001, I walked into a car dealership to see a friend about purchasing a car. I was going to get the “insider deal”. He took me for a spin and in a 1998 Jeep Wrangler Sahara. I fell in love.
Turned out his “deal” was a three year lease at the highest possible price. Me, being in my twenties, I took that deal.
That Jeep was bumpy, loud, and had to be towed more than once. In the winter, I was so cold I might as well have kept the top down. It was beyond loud and a hole in the exhaust manifold didn’t help anything. I forgot to put it in four wheel drive one snowy morning and the torque on the back wheels made me spin out and crash.
Despite all of this, I loved that Jeep. Loved it.
Then I got married and the parade of sedans and minivans began.
Jeep launched a special edition Jeep Wrangler this year. Black with a tan top. Just like my 1998 version. I had been eyeing it on Autotrader when my gem of a wife said “Get it.”
Twenty years later, I’m back. And you need to join the fun. Here are five reasons to buy a Jeep Wrangler.
- Everyone in a Jeep Wrangler waves to everyone in a Jeep Wrangler.
It’s called the “Jeep wave”. And it feels great. Welcome to the team. If you pull up to a stoplight next to another Jeep, put your window down, because your about to have a great conversations about the year and model.
2. Of the top ten vehicles that depreciate the slowest, only one is not a truck. That’s right, the Jeep Wrangler.
If you don’t like your Jeep, which is basically impossible, you can sell it for about what you paid for it. That’s right, you suck, Hummer.
3. No other vehicle lets you drive around with no windows, top, or even doors. Heck, you can even put down the windshield.
I took my back windows out and didn’t put them in for six months. I got bold and popped the doors off. There is no feeling like going down the highway and seeing the dashed center lines zipping by your left foot like your living the 980’s video game Pole Position.
4. Get into a fender bender? Leave the top down in a thunderstorm? So-called friend from high school have to puke? Who cares?
It’s all good with a Wrangler. Half the back is carpet. It has plugs to drain the thing. It’s made of steel, and I speak from experience when I say that a Honda Civic does almost no damage to it in a crash. But that Civic was wrecked.
5. There are hidden Easter Eggs molded into the black plastic trim. Lizards crawling, spiders lurking in a web, even a T-Rex. I got flip-flops. And the iconic outline of a WWII Jeep is hidden everywhere. On the windshield and spare tire.
