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About Wrangler

The Jeep Wrangler is the closest thing the modern car market has to a living fossil, and that is exactly why people love it. It still has a body-on-frame chassis, solid axles front and rear, round headlights, a flat windshield that can fold down and doors that come off with a few bolts. Strip it naked on a summer afternoon and it is not hard to see the 1941 Willys MB looking back at you. No other mainstream vehicle invites its owners to take it apart for fun.

The Wrangler name arrived with the YJ of 1987, whose square headlights scandalized purists, before the TJ restored round lamps and coil springs in 1997. The JK of 2007 added a four-door Unlimited that turned the Wrangler from a toy into a family car, and sales exploded. The current JL generation, introduced for 2018, refined the formula with a better cabin and smarter engines, then added the 4xe plug-in hybrid, for a time America's best-selling plug-in, and the thundering Rubicon 392 with a Hemi V8. The trade-offs remain: wind noise, a busy ride and steering that wanders.

For decades the Wrangler had the market for removable-roof off-roaders almost to itself. The return of the Ford Bronco in 2021 changed that, and the two now trade blows on the trail and in the quarterly sales charts, while the Toyota 4Runner and Land Cruiser court buyers who want capability with a fixed roof. Built in Toledo, Ohio, the Wrangler is also sold around the world, and its price creep in recent years has become a sore point with loyalists who remember when a basic two-door was an affordable toy.

This feed tracks the Wrangler's constant churn of special editions, heritage trims and Moab concepts, along with recalls, pricing changes, sales battles with the Bronco, reviews and the long-running debate about what comes next for the shape, including how electrification will touch a vehicle whose fans prize simplicity above all. Expect plenty of aftermarket news too, since few vehicles are modified as enthusiastically as this one, from lift kits and winches to rooftop tents, and few hold their value as stubbornly on the used market.

Wrangler

The direct descendant of the wartime Willys, with removable doors, a fold-flat windshield, a plug-in hybrid and a V8, and the Bronco nipping at its heels.

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