The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
If you're one of those unique souls who frequently finds themselves noodling along the Rubicon Trail in your Jeep Wrangler Unlimited while towing an off-road trailer-yes, these exist-boy howdy, has Jeep got just the thing for you. Enter the 2020 Jeep Gladiator (perhaps you've heard of this?), and it is the first Jeep pickup truck in more than 25 years.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
We mean it. It's real. We've driven it. Not just driven it, mind you. Oh, no. We drove it. Mud. Rocks. Angles. Four low. Locked diffs. Did we mention angles? What about fear?
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Off-roading is like that, a tiny niche of the automotive universe whose perverse angles, ridiculous articulations, and insatiable need for grip rearrange our perspective on life every time we shift a real transfer case.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Also, it's fantastic. And in a truck like this one there's no need for a trailer. Beds, baby, they're not just for sleeping.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Is the Pickup That the Jeep Faithful Have Been Asking for
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
The kind with two live axles. It's just not the monstrously big kind. It's what they call a mid-size, which means next to nothing since there are no mid-size trucks.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Call the Jeep what you want but know that it's not as big as a Ford F-150 or Chevy Silverado. With the Gladiator, we're talking about a truck that's roughly the size of a Chevy Colorado, a Ford Ranger, or a Honda Ridgeline.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
It's available only with four full-size doors and a five-foot bed. Every Gladiator has selectable four-wheel drive and uses a two-speed transfer case.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Both hard and soft tops are available, and like its Wrangler brethren, its windshield folds down flat.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Four trims are available: Sport, Sport S, Overland, and Rubicon.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Every Gladiator at launch will be powered by Fiat Chrysler's Pentastar 3.6-liter V-6 rated at 285 horsepower and 260 lb-ft of torque.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Is the Pickup That the Jeep Faithful Have Been Asking for
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Jeep is keenly aware that its bread is buttered with the anachronism of stick axles, but that, alas, is a Jeep thing, endowing the Wrangler lineup and the Gladiator with usable suspension articulation and supreme off-road capability.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Those axles, however, necessarily burden the truck with recirculating-ball steering, something that departed from virtually every other production vehicle, oh, about 30 years ago. And that means the Gladiator is not blessed with laser-precise steering.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Couple that with the fact that its heavy axles compel it to do a dynamic tango on certain surfaces, and you've got a recipe for a modern-day Conestoga wagon.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Sure, other more contemporary suspensions might not dance so much on washboard terrain, but the truth is, if you're a truck person, this probably is not going to matter.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Inside, the Gladiator is a mix of modern design and necessary function, including a waterproof start button for when you forget your truck is a roadster.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
The 60/40-split rear seatbacks fold flat, and the seat bottoms fold up. When both are deployed to make a seat there's more rear legroom than in any other mid-size truck.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
If a convertible truck with a pair of solid axles is your bag of tricks, know that they start at $35,040 and will be available about the time you read this. Gladiator Rubicons begin at $45,040.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
Those might seem like precious prices because, well, they are. Witness our test truck's $55,485 final tally.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
But Jeeps-even this truck-are lifestyle vehicles, the kind people buy with passion rather than purpose.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
That the Gladiator brings the additional utility of real payload capacity and a heavier tow rating than a Wrangler will certainly justify the cost hike among the Jeep faithful. Well, that, and they'll not need an off-road trailer.
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator in Photos
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The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Is the Pickup That the Jeep Faithful Have Been Asking for
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The new Gladiator has Wrangler-like off-road chops with mid-size-truck capability.