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If only it was, then I'd buy one! The Sammy was body-on-frame, solid front and rear axle and (for it's size) an overbuilt and extremely tough tiny truck.
Anyways, here's where my family and I was this weekend:
We needed lockers to get up there and afterwards tackled 100+ miles of rough and muddy dirt roads without a flinch from the only real Jeep Chrysler still makes. We also ran across a newer Honda "SUV" in the middle of the desert on jacks with nobody around and a wheel missing.
Renegades just don't have the "outdated" design and mechanicals that a Wrangler does, only it's looks and reputation pasted onto a road car platform. Jeep is playing a potentially costly game of chicken, advertising their CUVs like they were remotely capable of crossing terrain beyond what you would be OK about taking your Camry on. People are dumb though... and everything Jeep sells is insanely popular here. Me thinks there are gonna be a lot of stuck and/or broken Renegades and Cherokees out in the Utah deserts over the next few years.
I think the Renegade will do fine if you're doing nothing but going up fire trails, etc, properly equipped of course. If you're dumb enough to take something like that out into the desert, I think that's moreso asking for trouble. My GC is "rated" to take out on some of the worst and I've seen the road tests Jeep did...but there's no way in hell I'm ever going to go rock crawling in my GC. Worst it will ever see is being out in the woods, fire trails in the Appalachians, etc. And snow, of course.
IMy GC is "rated" to take out on some of the worst and I've seen the road tests Jeep did...but there's no way in hell I'm ever going to go rock crawling in my GC. Worst it will ever see is being out in the woods, fire trails in the Appalachians, etc. And snow, of course.
See... That's the Jeep sell. We all think we'll be hardcore mountaineers, but are actually bopping along fire roads on the lower Cape and even then it's only once or twice a year.
Life without my gas guzzling Jeep Cherokee (and Wranglers before) is inconceivable. I haven't shoveled Jeep out of a snow bank yet and 2015 was a real test!
But, every time I fill up to the sound of more dollars please, I ponder how the 99% live with their vehicles and over 10 MPH gas mileage and think...maybe, one day.
same here , i don't do anything more than some dirt roads hunting .
my 2012 jku eats way to much gas now that we retired and do so much driving .
a trailhawk is far more practical for us .
Let me know if you purchase and what you think!! Ive had my used Nissan Altima for 9 years with minimal problems.. hoping the Jeep Renegade will be the same
if you follow any of the auto news publications then you saw pictures of my 2012 jku which came from the factory with sahara painted fenders on one side and the rubber sport fenders on the other .
then at 15k a cylinder head failed as chrysler had thousands of bad heads to replace .
then it was a starter and battery .
but the last 3 years have been virtually trouble free except for a radio replacement .
I bought a Jeep Renegade Latitude (AWD) last week after reading great reviews online, etc. So far, I'm having a blast driving it! I hope that it lives up to the hype.
I've had my Renegade since September, and haven't had any problems with it. I have a Sport AWD with the 2.4L engine. It's perfect for what I need it for. I did buy the lifetime warranty just in case, but that's just something I do.
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and afterwards tackled 100+ miles of rough and muddy dirt roads without a flinch from the only real Jeep Chrysler still makes. We also ran across a newer Honda "SUV" in the middle of the desert on jacks with nobody around and a wheel missing.
