Tests and Features

SACRAMENTO (California) – Media events such as these don’t come around very often. After a brief conference from one of FCA’s spokespeople, the planning of the day was concise and straightforward: head out into the mud to test out the off-road capability of Jeep’s all-new pickup truck. No problem! Yes, …

This week, The Car Guide team is flying to northern California, in the Sacramento region, to test-drive the first Jeep pickup in over 25 years, the all-new 2020 Jeep Gladiator . The New Kid in Town With its pickup, Jeep aims to grab a chunk of the midsize truck pie, …

After it was released back in 2006, the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 was considered a poor man’s alternative to a Porsche Cayenne Turbo, rocking a 6.1-litre HEMI V8 with 425 horsepower and a chest hair-raising soundtrack. It was fast, it was relatively affordable—compared to the Porsche—and it was very popular.

The Jeep Cherokee hasn’t had it easy ever since it came back, replacing the Liberty, in 2014. Gone was the traditional and much coveted longitudinal rear-wheel drive layout that made Jeep’s SUV so distinguished and capable for almost three decades. More civilized, and more carlike than ever before, the Cherokee …

To my eyes, a Jeep Wrangler is best in its most basic form. No LED headlights, chrome trim, fancy wheels or leather seats. If you’re going to commit to a Jeep, you get the base one, the one with two doors, a ragtop, and a stick. At least, that’s how …

“You won’t need that here,” said one of the instructors as he saw me checking out my phone. Indeed, out there, in the United States’ Sierra Nevada, there is no cell phone reception, no Wi-Fi, no sign of life for kilometres on end. It’s a dry place, a rocky place, …

This won’t be our usual media drive program, because we’ll be in Lake Tahoe, California, to drive the 2018 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon on… the Rubicon Trail! The trail, whose name served as the inspiration for the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, is a 35-km long off-road course that incorporates some of the …