Wrangler ... The closest competitor to Bronco?! Think again!
Heck, YTD '26 Q1 sales have the 4Skinner ahead of the Bronco now. Bronco sales 2026 Q1 are down 4% from Q1 2025, while Jeep is up 17% and Toyota is surging to it's highest sales numbers since 2021.
For the on road environment, solar, hydrogen, and alternative fuels are absolutely the future. EV is a speed bump fad, IMO, on the way to real (lasting) technical solutions.
For off road, the crystal ball is hazy, right now.
What does "range" even mean, off road? ... In a rugged boulder-infested desert environment? With hills, marsh, rivers, etc?
i.e , How do you even measure, calculate, or guesstimate energy expenditure rates for such situations? This is all mumbo jumbo pie-in-the-sky stuff, until empirical...
For me, personally, OffRoadeo NV cemented for me that for that type of rugged terrain, the longer 4-door wheelbase is right for me.
I know the 2-door loyalists will swear it can do anything and go anywhere the 4-door can, ... 😎... but for me, I'm more confident in the 4 door.
Still ... I'm disappointed that after weeks of pithy debate the topic never morphed to home brew, as I expected it would. 🤔
... and, BTW, everyone knows when it comes to windshield wiper fluid, the green stuff is vastly superior to the blue stuff. Hands down.
I did the Red Rock Canyon OffRoadeo last weekend (Vegas), and it was a great time -- I had a similar experience as yours, but I definitely want to do Moab next. Thanks for sharing and confirming my next venture! 😎
No offense intended to anyone but I have a different mindset and, FWIW, I typically swap tires between 45 and 50K. I have *never* exceeded 60K on any car or truck I've ever owned in nearly 50 years of driving. Ever. Nor have I ever sought a tire with an expected tread life of more than 60K. A...
On the 30K mikes driven to date, do you have any estimated breakdown of the miles by percentage driven by road usage total ([1] easy mall crawling, [2] serious highway miles at speed) and off road usage ([3] easy/soft trail miles, and [4] hard, rocky, rigged terrain miles covered)?
Thanks for...