You just realized the 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 was going to be skin-tinglingly high-priced. When it truly is fairly easy to load up a usual Wrangler with a single of its gasoline 4- or six-cylinder engines—not to mention its pricey diesel V-6 option—past the $60,000 mark, there was no way the long-awaited V-8-driven Wrangler would not have at the very least a seven in entrance of its value tag.
Get ready Thyself …
Lo and behold, Jeep has produced pricing for the new Wrangler Rubicon 392 Launch Edition, and it starts off at $74,995. Which is $24,030 extra than the subsequent-priciest Wrangler’s talk to, and hardly much less than it will price you to get a Levante luxurious SUV—sold by way of Jeep parent Stellantis’ Maserati division. We needn’t listing all the mainstream compact SUVs the constrained-edition Wrangler is pricier than (all of them), but we will toss just one extra comparison your way: The Rubicon 392 will charge you extra than even hotted-up compact luxurious crossovers these types of as the BMW X3 M and twin-turbo V-8-driven Mercedes-AMG GLC63. The Wrangler even prices additional than the one particular-dimension up Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT and Dodge Durango SRT SUVs, with which it shares its 470-hp, 470-lb-ft 6.4-liter V-8 motor. Mad? Not if you just have to have a Wrangler with a V-8 packing 185 more horsepower than the Wrangler’s standard-situation 3.6-liter V-6 and a manufacturing facility warranty.
Do not fear, shoppers can shovel more hard cash at their nearby Jeep seller with plenty of more-price choices, including the nifty—and $4,395—Dual Doorway Group (two sets of doorways, one particular with decreased sills for more open up-air entertaining) and the $2,000 Sky 1-Contact ability-sliding canvas roof. Insert the two, and you can drive your greatest Wrangler’s price tag tag more than eighty grand.
All Ate Up With Functions (and Motor)
On the upside, this is the priciest Rubicon 392-presumably fewer expensive versions will abide by someday just after the Launch Version goes on sale—and it comes really much totally loaded with each individual added from lesser Wranglers. It has all the Rubicon trim’s off-highway goodies as well as the greatest 8.4-inch touchscreen with navigation regular, as well as leather-based seats, automatic local weather command, power locks, electrical power windows, electricity mirrors, delicate-contact door panels, blind-place monitoring, adaptive cruise regulate, automatic unexpected emergency braking, heated front seats, a heated steering wheel, and a lot more.
We say “really significantly thoroughly loaded” only simply because, effectively, there are a several curious omissions from the 392’s normal features checklist. Why, on a $75,000 Wrangler, is a tow hitch a $350 added? We could see that remaining, say, a no-price possibility, so that off-roaders not keen on dragging a hitch on obstructions could stay clear of it—but 350 bucks? Ditto the $525 hardtop headliner pads. Perhaps Jeep needs prospects to have the alternative of extra of that Hemi V-8 engine noise reflecting off the within of the Wrangler’s plastic hardtop—but, like, again, why not make it a no-cost offer? At minimum purchasers who want a delicate top (the hardtop is normal) can have 1 for $, and the dual-top rated group (equally really hard and delicate roofs are bundled) expenses a lot less right here than on other Wranglers, a mere $1,300.
Is this worthy of it? Relies upon on how muscled your Jeep wave hand is. If you completely must have the Wrangler with a V-8 and really don’t really feel like paying out related funds (or additional) all-in for the similar outcome from an aftermarket conversion, effectively, Jeep’s obtained you by the rock rails and appreciates it. Start preserving up, simply because the Wrangler Rubicon 392 Start Edition drops this spring.
