Jeep Wrangler: The fourth generation remains true – car and engine

Berlin.
You do not believe it against the plethora of SUVs that require nothing less than driving off-road: there are still real off-road for which the off-road tests are not too hard. New on the market in September: the fourth generation of Jeep Wrangler.

Moment, only the fourth series? That too is hard to believe, but the seven series of models before were not called Wrangler, but simply Jeep, marked only by the name of the CJ factory for Civilian Jeep – unlike the Jeep Willy & # 39 military vehicle, which began in 1942.

Visually, the new Wrangler remained true to himself and his ancestors, but the fans who call themselves Jeeper do not want it to be different. The angular body and high legs give the promise of maximum off-road capability, and more so the Jeepers do not care. Adjustments to the tendencies of the life of the bourgeois car are not desirable in this clientele

The new model is not comfortable

So even the latest model is far from making a good impression. No matter if you try the clbadic version or the four-inch longer 55 cm, the Jeep goes everywhere, but not straight. Each groove runs after the tires, and the steering does not do much – it looks like she's playing (which is not the case), and if you turn sharply, she turns back reluctantly.

Driving a test drive in a jeep can make you feel uncomfortable, even if the marshals in the forest say you can, you should just let the car do it. So, off-road gear engaged (so what SUVs do not have), and the ratio of wheel speed and engine power moves dramatically.

Now, much of the 450 newton-meters maximum of the new 2.2-liter (147 kW / 200 hp) diesel engine is already available. Slowly but with confidence, the Wrangler advances – surprisingly if we consider the heavy weight of more than two tons.

With a lot of ground clearance, he rolls effortlessly on the hill and slope