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Inside the 42nd Houston Auto Show and the Jeep Wrangler 392 · In Wheel Time Podcast

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30-minute mini version of the In Wheel Time Car Show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11 am, central From the 42nd Annual Houston Auto Show.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: This is the award-winning In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: Just ahead we've got interviews with some of the participant manufacturers and others here at today's show.
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Also, I'll give you my thoughts on driving the 2024 Jeep Wrangler 392.
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: Oh, and the 392 is not how long it is.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: It's not a wheelbase.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: No, it's not a wheelbase.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: It's not the weight, it's the engine size.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Ah, and it's not a wheelbase, it's not the weight, it's the engine size and it's a hot rod.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: They put that engine in the Super B and let me tell you something it bad, it real bad.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: Jeff has the Motor Minute on this segment of the In Wheel Time Car Talk Show.
• 0:58
  Speaker 1: Howdy, along with Mike out of this rural Mars.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: We always need Jeff Zekin.
• 1:02
  Speaker 1: Chief Engineer David A angely has joined us fresh from the bed this morning and I'm don armstrong glad that you could join us.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: In the hot seat right now, our first interview of the day.
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: Hmm, can't imagine why we're gonna make this the jeep segment.
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Why?
• 1:18
  Speaker 1: Because we are in the stelantis booth and more specifically in the Stellantis booth and more specifically in the Jeep booth here at the Houston Auto Show.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: You've got all of the Jeeps here and they've got Camp Jeep right over there.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: Right yonder, right yonder.
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: And they're lining up already.
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they opened the doors and folks just rushed over to this area.
• 1:38
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: It's like Disneyland.
• 1:39
  Speaker 1: You know when they first opened the gate at Disneyland and everybody rushes to their favorite place.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: You know when they first opened the gate at Disneyland and everybody rushes to their favorite place.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: You know Pirates of the Caribbean or Space Mountain or whatever it is the restroom.
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: Don goes to.
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  Speaker 3: Tiny Tots Town or whatever yeah.
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you, I do With my grandson.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: Just to make it clear.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: I knew that Did I leave that out?
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: You sick old man.
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: It's all right, sorry.
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: At any rate.
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: So Benny Munguia, from ready drum roll.
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: South.
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  Speaker 1: Padre Island, Texas.
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: Who do you know from South Padre Island?
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: You Batman, this guy right here.
• 2:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, south Padre.
• 2:15
  Speaker 1: You know you're the only person that I have ever known, met or been in touch with and seen from South Padre Island.
• 2:23
  Speaker 2: I actually have a cousin that lives in South Padre, been in touch with and seen from.
• 2:25
  Speaker 4: South Padre.
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: I actually have a cousin that lives in South Padre.
• 2:33
  Speaker 1: I was born and raised here, but once I moved down to the valley I was like South Padre, I can't you know.
• 2:36
  Speaker 1: I was kind of looking for a nice deep, dark Hawaiian tan, but I'm not seeing that right now, easy, easy, yeah.
• 2:47
  Speaker 4: I haven't been around home for months.
• 2:48
  Speaker 4: You on the road with jeep all the time for the last couple months.
• 2:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, so it's uh.
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: It's been an interesting uh tour.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: I would say, yeah, yeah, you know well, I know that uh on the road that you have to read about your company a lot because there's been lots of changes with Stellantis here in the past month and a half or so they fired Louie Prima and he's gone, and now we've got somebody from the US of A heading things up and we are really excited because I think that the turnaround is going to be jaw-dropping in the coming months.
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: They've already made announcements regarding advertising, the whole new push.
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: It's going to be good, but in the meantime and in between time, camp Jeep why is it that everybody comes over here and wants it?
• 3:36
  Speaker 1: Because this is not the only ride and drive, if you want to call it that.
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: This is not the only one.
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: Because, there's lots of them outdoors, indoors, but always Camp Jeep.
• 3:47
  Speaker 4: It's just a unique-looking obstacle illusion that you're looking at, but it's not an illusion, of course, but it's something that it's rare that you get to see in auto shows Describe what it is what it is is an experience for people to come over, and you're getting specs, you're getting knowledge, as well as going obstacles, as like going over the breakover, where you have your wheel up in the air and they explain why.
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: So the passengers go with the professional driver or do the folks drive it themselves?
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: They go with the professional driver, Are?
• 4:22
  Speaker 4: you one of the professional drivers I used to be, I used to be, I used to be.
• 4:26
  Speaker 2: I still do it here and there when I, when I, when I want to have fun I'm scared that you know what out of the oh yeah, yeah, I've been doing it for so many years but I love it I love it, I mean, I can't so do you?
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: do you demonstrate things like the uh, like the disconnect for the sway bar, and stuff like that?
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir uh disconnection of the sway bar and stuff like that.
• 4:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir, disconnection of the sway bar.
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  Speaker 1: And why is that important?
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: For those that don't know, why is that important?
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  Speaker 4: It's just a lot of people don't know about it Half the people, I would say.
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: So we explain it how it works, how it disconnects and the importance of why it disconnects Right, Because it keeps that other wheel on the ground when typically it would not in a car or something else.
• 5:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it tends to work four by four.
• 5:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know four wheels on the ground, there you go, yeah.
• 5:14
  Speaker 1: And what is the gain as far as inches or feet when you disconnect the sway bar?
• 5:21
  Speaker 4: It's, I believe, 33 inches or so.
• 5:23
  Speaker 4: That's huge.
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a good drop, but it helps when you're going in angles so you don't have that tire up in the air, so you have more control now all of these vehicles over there?
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: uh, are they all jeep wranglers?
• 5:37
  Speaker 4: no, no, they, we got wranglers.
• 5:38
  Speaker 4: We do also have uh gladiators and uh the grand cherokees.
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: Does the gladiator also have an option?
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: I would assume a detachable sway bar.
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, really yes.
• 5:52
  Speaker 4: So the gladiator is just like a Wrangler, is just a truck with a five-foot bed in the back.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah and I've read and we've actually had them and we've talked about it.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: It is not just a truck bed on the back of a Wrangler.
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: It is designed as the truck.
• 6:09
  Speaker 1: You just don't pick the body up off of it and move it over to the Wrangler.
• 6:16
  Speaker 4: Right, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very similar to it.
• 6:19
  Speaker 4: It's just a little bit more extension to it, but it does quite a bit just about the same, even though it's a little bit of a to it, but it does quite a bit just about the same, even though it's a little bit longer.
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: Wheelbase, right.
• 6:29
  Speaker 4: So it does feel just a little different.
• 6:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, just a little different.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: So what are they going to experience?
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: You said I see there's something like an incline, an access.
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: You've dressed down a hill, You've got bumps and things to go over.
• 6:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so we have our 18-foot foot high hill.
• 6:45
  Speaker 4: Obviously that's the most attractive thing you could see with 35 degree angles on it.
• 6:49
  Speaker 4: Obviously, we have four by four all the way around the track, four by four low.
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: We also have the what we call the break over.
• 6:56
  Speaker 4: That's where we actually show the disconnection of the sway bar, so it shows you the stretching.
• 7:03
  Speaker 2: The articulation of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the articulation of the front suspension.
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: Is this size typical of what you do at other shows, or is this larger, smaller average?
• 7:10
  Speaker 4: It's about average Average.
• 7:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah we do have different type of hills.
• 7:14
  Speaker 4: We have a smaller hill and we have a bigger hill.
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: Fortunately it doesn't fit in here because it's a pretty big, pretty tall hill.
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so Jeep people I can see Jeep people are going to pretty well know what you're talking about when you're talking about disconnecting sway bars.
• 7:29
  Speaker 3: But what about somebody that's pretty new, I mean?
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: Do they seem to kind of grasp what you're saying?
• 7:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's kind of one of the big points that we do is try to explain people about what this is and what this does and what this other thing does and you know as far as, like, sway bar, axle locks.
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: You know, and then you can kind of show on the result.
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because of your setup.
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's pretty cool yeah different type of trim levels.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: You know there's Rubicon, sahara's, their sports, you know, so you know it's interesting because I think back on the beginning of the civilian-style Jeep, when it first came on the market.
• 8:09
  Speaker 1: It was pretty much just a mimic of the military but it had a few more options on it.
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: But you still had to get out and go to the lockers up front to get them to lock.
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: You don't have to do any of that anymore.
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: All of it's done from the driver's seat and it's all electronic and it works really well.
• 8:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's excellent.
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: I mean it's.
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: I hate to say it, but it's pretty lazy nowadays, so you just press a button, you know Right.
• 8:40
  Speaker 1: But the other thing that I did want to mention and I'll mention it in my review is the fact that the new infotainment system and we're going to talk about the info part of the infotainment system especially when it comes to the upper-end Wranglers Not only are you able to control all of the different functions of the four-wheel drive, you can actually see it on the display what you're doing.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: Yes, it shows you that, and that's a relatively new thing, yeah, and it's kind of evolved over the past few years hasn't?
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: yeah, it's.
• 9:14
  Speaker 4: It's pretty awesome just to see that and shows you how, what degrees you're doing and you know vertically, horizontally.
• 9:22
  Speaker 4: Uh, it's a great feature.
• 9:25
  Speaker 4: Now they have like different screens nowadays, so it shows you more clarity, the roll angle, the yaw, the all of the stuff that you hear the space shuttle, yeah, yeah yeah, it is very cool houston style.
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah exactly well you know that's the other thing too.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: Why would you need a jeep wrangler?
• 9:43
  Speaker 1: A 392 in houston, texas, that's flat as a board because you can because you can, because you can't, and the 392 is just a little overkill, I think, for rock crawling, yeah uh, but it sure does go fast on the street, oh yeah and that's what I'm talking about in houston, texas.
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: Get to the rocks quicker.
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: That's what it is, yeah yeah well, here I think it's mostly about the beach and you.
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: You see so many guys with 4x4s and, in particular, the Wranglers at the beach, dune crawling, and you know all about that down at South Padre Island.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they probably have courses down there, don't?
• 10:23
  Speaker 4: they and clubs, they have a little bit of clubs.
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: I think Houston has more clubs than we have down there, right, but as far as courses, are concerned.
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, usually you could just find, find it.
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, find some tracks around it.
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, from my knowledge, that you can't go too deep into the dunes, because then the Parks and Wildlife Department will get after you.
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: Right, because you don't want to tear that up and mess that up, yeah.
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: Because you don't want to tear that up and mess that up.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: So I would imagine that somewhere down there that you haven't discovered yet, there's got to be a closed course that they can manipulate the sand so you can do your thing in your new Wrangler.
• 10:59
  Speaker 2: I've got a friend of mine, an acquaintance, that actually belongs to a club, and they go out to West Texas, they go to Moab, they have big events out there as well, and they've all got custom fiberglass, all this other stuff on there.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: Now Jeep goes out to Moab oh yeah.
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: They're big out there yeah they have a Jeep Safari down.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 11:18
  Speaker 1: You ever been to one of that?
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have, I have.
• 11:21
  Speaker 4: I've been there twice or three times, I believe, and it's incredible just to see thousands and thousands of Jeeps and you got willies and 1942s and you have like these little clubs and you know spotters and all that.
• 11:37
  Speaker 4: It's pretty cool pretty well.
• 11:38
  Speaker 1: I will tell you that years ago I belonged to an organization I won't name which one it is.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Mars knows that we were were relegated to a very elevation-savvy ranch and it was always so much fun to take that Wrangler on the hill climb part of it.
• 12:03
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a huge elevation, but I will tell you, you had to be pretty savvy.
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: We've also been up on a mountaintop where you have to have spotters because otherwise, if you didn't have a spotter, you could roll off that mountain real easily yeah and uh, some of this stuff gets pretty serious.
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys that customize their wranglers, you're going oh my god, how much money you got in that thing but the thing, the thing I think about and they talk about, when you're on one of these trails, since there's four or five, or a group or your club is out there and you break, how are you going to get back, how are you going to pull your rig out of there?
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: That's always a question that that concerns me.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: To do that well, that would be your winch, well, yeah, a wench, but you know how many, so how long is it going to take to get you out of there, if, if you're deep back in that area.
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: If you're stuck in there and your Jeep's broke down, you don't care how long it takes to get out, as long as you get out.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: All right, and you can call a wrecker, okay, and we've witnessed that.
• 13:00
  Speaker 1: We had somebody that went down in the riverbed.
• 13:03
  Speaker 1: They said stay close to the shore, did they?
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: Put it right down in the deep part of the river.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm talking about.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: They pulled it out, cleaned out, dried out.
• 13:14
  Speaker 1: The air cleaner element started right up the way they went.
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, the good thing now, too, is that they have a front camera that you can use yes, I saw that and even if it gets muddy or wet or whatever you want to call it, and there's a little spray on it so it can wash off the mud so you can actually still see everything in front of you, which is a great idea, you know you're talking about.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: You know they go to West Texas and they go to North Texas.
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: Apparently, there's a lot of stuff up in Oklahoma as well, but it's such a difference that, like Don said, the few times that we've been able to go someplace besides the sand and the flat texas here on the coast, rock climbing is just a totally different thing experience yeah, and it's, uh, the first couple of times I did it I I was pretty impressed that you know the jeep would do it, because I didn't think it would.
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: He's got I don't know going up there, you don't have to worry about it, so you y'all opened y'all Wednesday.
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: Correct you loaded in and started Wednesday, right right correct.
• 14:13
  Speaker 2: So has it been more guests coming or less, or on average for?
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: folks visiting.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: It's been pretty average, Obviously today's Saturday, so hopefully it'll pick up a lot more.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this afternoon is going to be nuts, it's going to be crazy, and let's not forget that you've got the big guns across the way over NRG Stadium.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, with the trucks, monster, truck, monster truck show.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, we can't compete with those, yeah you can Just run underneath them.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: The fun part about this weekend is that you've got the monsters across the street, and if you want to make a weekend of automotive, so to speak.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: This is the place Yep, NRG, you know one thing that 392's got it's got a performance exhaust button Makes it considerably louder.
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: You know more performance, right, you know, if you wanted to compete with the monsters, you could go out there and get a sawzall and cut the mufflers and the cats off of the jeeps, you know as you're going.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Don't give anybody any ideas, mars.
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: I'm just thinking.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: I think that's against the law yeah, but we're inside the building.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: You're not on the street okay, well, that's great, I'm sure, the houston police department appreciates you talking about a couple of sheriffs walking through here just eyeballing you, okay, so to let everybody know.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: If you come out which we hope that you do to experience the houston auto show that, uh, when you enter the front of the building, go all the way to the right back quarter and that's where we are and that's where camp jeep is.
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: Yes, sir, can't miss it.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: You got hot dogs over there.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: I wish we did.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: I'm hungry.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Well, there's right over there is the concession booth.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: I tell you what Hot dogs.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: We got donuts back here.
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: You want to grab a?
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: donut.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah as always.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the best we got today.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Benny, thanks so much for joining us today.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Thank you gentlemen, appreciate it, it's always a pleasure we're going to let Mike take a ride.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Of course anytime.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: And you've got to be 44 inches tall to get on there.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I think he's high.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, she's checking you.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Yep, yep, sure is Got it, Benny.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: Thanks again.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: We appreciate you.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: Be careful.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: Don will come over there just so you can check him and see how tall he is.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Just ahead a review of the Jeep Wrangler 392 in Jeff's Motor Minute right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's do the.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Jeep Wrangler review.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Can we hold off on that for one moment?
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: Let me do mine first, because we're going to hook a cable up.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Whatever you want.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, you know what, I'm only along here for the ride.
• 19:00
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• 19:02
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• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Are we going to?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: do it now, or are we going to hook a cable?
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: up first.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: We're going to hook a cable up for that as well, but the motor minute is.
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• 19:52
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you're on.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get your?
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  Speaker 1: cable hooked up.
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  Speaker 1: Got my cable hooked up All right Time.
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  Speaker 1: Now for this hour's car review.
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  Speaker 1: I had a chance to drive the 2024 Jeep Wrangler 392.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're watching on video then you can see it on the screen right here, Because.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: I got a cable.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Because he's got a cable.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's what it was.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, I get it Okay.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: So the Jeep Wrangler comes in many different trim levels.
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  Speaker 1: It's built in Toledo, ohio, all-american USA.
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  Speaker 1: It comes in the Sport, the Sport S, the Willis Rubicon, the Sport RHD, the Sahara, the Rubicon X and the Rubicon 392.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I had the four-door Rubicon 392.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: This is considered a small SUV.
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  Speaker 1: This is the final edition 4x4 for this particular 392.
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  Speaker 1: Five seats.
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  Speaker 1: Exterior changes, updated for 2024.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: This is the fourth gen that was all new in 2018, called the JL, for those Jeepers out there that go by JLs.
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  Speaker 1: Exterior features this one in particular had the bulging hood with air scoop and the 392 emblem on either side.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It looked good.
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  Speaker 1: Painted fenders on this particular one.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Not all Jeep Wranglers have painted fenders.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: This one does Factory winch that is installed atop a custom bumper for this thing.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Removable doors, as are all Wranglers.
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  Speaker 1: Fold-down windshield and power cloth top.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: On the one that I had, I think that you can also get the hard top, what I liked the 17 by 8 beadlock wheels with 37-inch knobby tires on it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: It was bad and I think that it well.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Can I say this you?
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: can I?
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: think it broke the tires loose at one of my little demonstrations that I had for myself to see what it would do.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: Backing out of the driveway Shut up.
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  Speaker 3: Mars what you were doing, research no that's what you do.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I was tanning it up what you were doing.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Research no, that's what you do, I was tanning it up.
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  Speaker 1: What could use improvement?
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Well, this is a Jeep Wrangler.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: This is not a Lincoln Continental.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I don't think they make that anymore, but whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So the wind and the tire noise is to be dealt with, but this is not something that you're going to take on the highway to Aunt Mary's up in Portland, oregon.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe you will, but you could.
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  Speaker 1: You could just take the back roads, not at my age.
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  Speaker 1: No, because this vehicle is a purpose-built off-roader.
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  Speaker 1: Interior highlights 12.3-inch touchscreen, which is new in 24, with the Uconnect system Works great.
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  Speaker 1: 392 embroidered shout-out on the front seat, backs and both fronts are powered.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, you can move them with the ease of electricity Click of a switch.
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  Speaker 1: Off-road controls right on the center stack or on the console.
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  Speaker 1: Very easy to use High upright seating, front and rear, so you can see where you're going over those rocks and hill climbs.
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  Speaker 1: Cargo and trunk room is small when compared to other SUVs, because, remember, this is an SUV.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: What I liked?
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  Speaker 1: The built-in air compressor, which is, by the way, a $2,000 option.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Whoa, that's cool though.
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  Speaker 1: And it's on the swing gate on the back.
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  Speaker 1: It's built in back there.
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  Speaker 3: It's kind of neat how they did that.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't take up much room.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't take up much room at all, and if you happen to puncture a tire on one of your rock crawls, you get out there and put your juice in it and blow it back up yeah, change it uh, this is the ultimate off-roader that has on-road manners, which is kind of surprising, but the wheel travel on this makes those bumps and undulations on the state highways makes them go away.
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  Speaker 1: 6.4 liter naturally aspirated V8 engine that has 470 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of torque, and it's all four wheels for an eight-speed automatic transmission.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Are you pointing at me?
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  Speaker 3: for a reason.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's just looking at the Jeep.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was trying to tell him about the push button on the exhaust when you were talking about the horsepower and how it ran.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does.
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  Speaker 1: It does have a thing and I thought where is this thing?
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  Speaker 1: So I called Mars.
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  Speaker 1: He says it's on the dash and I looked down there and there's this little symbol in a row of buttons down there and on it are dual exhausts.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's the button and it starts off, open Really, and then after a couple of seconds then it closes back down and sounds great.
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  Speaker 1: The neighbors don't like it.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Let me put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't sneak home at 2 o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: But if you would like to have that sound all the time, press that button.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: A little yellow thing comes on.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear it start to grumble.
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  Speaker 1: Then put it on the street right there in front of your house with the neighbors and all and floor it.
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  Speaker 1: That works real well.
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  Speaker 1: Toes up to 5,000 pounds, 13 miles per gallon, city 16 highway.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, what did you expect?
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  Speaker 1: It's a 392 hot rod.
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't buy it for fuel economy.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Combined it gets 14 miles to the gallon and I am bragging at 15.0 miles per gallon Over 397.4 miles.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I got 15.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: What did Mars get?
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  Speaker 1: Mars didn't get doodly squat.
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  Speaker 2: Mars got a ticket.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Did you get a ticket.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I got lots of looks.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I hope Kimberly Schultz is listening to this.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: It's your review, not mine.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I'm calling you out, sir.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Oh boy, what I liked about the whole thing scary fast power.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Nothing could use improvement there, unless you want to do more horsepower and burn off those expensive knobby tires on home ride and handling.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: More compliant from the suspension, more compliant than you would expect, actually.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Uh, what could use improvement?
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Well, it depends on your outlook on what is rough and what is compliant.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: It's up to you.
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  Speaker 1: Really, okay here, fun part.
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  Speaker 1: The base trim price on the Wrangler 392 is $91,545.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: And we have our next guest here and we're going to talk about Lincolns.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: I think, yep, yeah, he's the Lincoln guy.
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  Speaker 5: He's the Lincoln guy.
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: He's the Lincoln guy.
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  Speaker 1: Price is tested $108,475.
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  Speaker 1: You probably have something in your lineup that's comparable, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: Yes or no?
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: No, okay, good, just checking, have something in your lineup.
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  Speaker 1: That's comparable, don't you?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yes or no?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: No, okay, good, just checking.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Just checking your knowledge um base model price, you can get in a wrangler a cheapie for 33 890 and that's not cheap, that's not bad, yeah, I know so the price difference.
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  Speaker 1: Think of this base bottle price 33 890.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: The price is tested75.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a lot of that is the engine, and then you've got some suspension and you've got bigger tires and wheels.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Even for the Rubicon it's a bump up it's.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun to drive, though.
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  Speaker 3: There you go it was.
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  Speaker 1: So competitors, ford Bronco starts at $39,630.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Land Rover Defender, which doesn't surprise me because it starts at $56,400.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Toyota 4Runner $40,705 is the starting price for that.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I think it's more of a passenger daily.
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  Speaker 1: How do you compare this to any of those?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: You really can't compare it.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: No 6.4 liter v8.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, super b motor in it.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, buddy, I'm there and that's the motor minute.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: All right, it's your review.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: It's your review I did it.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Do you need a cable?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: No, I don't need a cable.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: You obviously didn't do your job like Mars didn't do his job.
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  Speaker 2: We were focused on your still shots.
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  Speaker 2: Is what we were doing?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what it was?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: We're not even sure that we're going to use the still shots.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to our family, young man.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: You know we try to do good, but it just doesn't work out.
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  Speaker 2: It's better than evil.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: This is kind of like a car club meeting on Friday nights, with that great big wash tub and ice full of beer.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's what it's like don't don't tell me that you've never been to one of those, because I can see the look in your face and the smile he's going, oh yeah he's the one they drug me into this and we're going to talk to him.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: I don't even know your name, but I can see your face.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: He's got a bucket, that's all that matters.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Give him the cable.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, get him.
• 28:44
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• 28:50
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