DaveB
Grenadier Owner
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At the moment in Australia car companies are selling every 4wd/SUV vehicle they can get(or can't even get) for high prices.......except JeepOr LDV. They make an apparently rugged and cheap 4x4
There are 364 MY22 Jeep Gladiators F/S in Australia right now (that's just carsales.com) What does that say?At the moment in Australia car companies are selling every 4wd/SUV vehicle they can get(or can't even get) for high prices.......except Jeep
Who have stock and have just offered 3 years free servicing to try to get customers.
I posted the 4WD of the year video somewhere on here a few months ago and the Gladiator performed worse than the Great Wall in some aspects.There are 364 MY22 Jeep Gladiators F/S in Australia right now (that's just carsales.com) What does that say?
Do you judge all 4WD vehicles based on their stock capability? As Dan Grec has shown, the Gladiator holds up just fine.I posted the 4WD of the year video somewhere on here a few months ago and the Gladiator performed worse than the Great Wall in some aspects.
Not very good off road at all.
I don't think it would last very long against corrugations, just not designed for it.
It looks pretty good though.
No that is just an indicator.Do you judge all 4WD vehicles based on their stock capability? As Dan Grec has shown, the Gladiator holds up just fine.
HiDo you judge all 4WD vehicles based on their stock capability? As Dan Grec has shown, the Gladiator holds up just fine.
Yep. Certainly looks like energy is the problem and it is expected to remain high
If only they could build them without using electricity or heating.
Quite a bit of passive aggresive "smart-assery" on here for legitimate questions
I’m not going to spoon feed you you’ll have to learn how to use google like everyone else.
Never said that. Just becoming more disenchanted as time goes on. I'll still wait and see if ineos can bring a quality product to market here. If it's reasonably priced and performs as intended, I'll buy and keep. If the price puts it in the arena of a luxury vehicle, I'll probably buy if there is a price incentive and flip it or just cancel if it looks like there's no demand on the secondary.I thought you had decided the Grenadier was no longer on the shopping list?
"They’ve just announced the fourth round of price rises in 12 months on the Gladiator and Wrangler"There are 364 MY22 Jeep Gladiators F/S in Australia right now (that's just carsales.com) What does that say?
I run an Engineering company and in our case most cost increases have been driven by the unstable energy market. Raw materials (steel, aluminium) take a lot of energy to produce and then more energy to heat treat from their initial annealed (soft) state to their final tempered/quenched state. The price hikes in metallic raw materials are proportionate to how much energy is used to produce them, but everything has gone up substantially this year: Carbon steels +50%, stainless steels +100% and exotic nickel alloy steels by as much as 800%. In addition, the demise of the Ukranian steel mills also had a large impact on European supply chains. Couple that with rampant inflation and every single workforce calling for substantial pay rises and it's easy to see where things are heading.Yep. Certainly looks like energy is the problem and it is expected to remain high
If only they could build them without using electricity or heating.
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Hi ECrider,Well said G-Man.
Quick question, your location says Aberdeen but your flag says Holland?
I have the same issue. Flag is Norwegian as I must have been there when doing something. My flag should be British.Hi ECrider,
I've asked @Stu_Barnes very nicely if that glitch can be fixed! Apparently it's because on the day I first registered my account my laptop was routed through a Dutch IP address
And I wondered wether both of you might have used local flags that look like the norwegian and dutch oneI have the same issue. Flag is Norwegian as I must have been there when doing something. My flag should be British.
I was concerned it was a Russian flag at first!And I wondered wether both of you might have used local flags that look like the norwegian and dutch one
The Gladiator is a good 4x4, but (compared to other ROW offerings) an average at best truck. You'll need to lift and increase tire straight away to make up for the abysmal breakover angle, and doing so further worsens its truck capabilities. Also, the powerplant is terrible for non Americans. We're used to punchy little turbo diesels that can pull 3.5ton at sub 3k rpm, not a thirsty v6 petrol that screams its ass off to pull a trailer up a hill.Do you judge all 4WD vehicles based on their stock capability? As Dan Grec has shown, the Gladiator holds up just fine.