2013 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 10th Anniversary Edition: At Home on the Rubicon Trail! - Ignition Ep. 78 - video Dailymotion

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00:00 (engine rumbling)

00:02 On this week's Ignition, we're going back to the source.

00:07 We're taking a trail-rated Jeep Wrangler Rubicon

00:11 on the Rubicon Trail, and we don't have any doors.

00:15 (dramatic music)

00:18 Ooh.

00:27 (dramatic music)

00:30 Uh, Jeep Wrangler Rubicon on the Rubicon Trail.

00:54 I'm in a very good mood at the moment,

00:56 'cause this is so much fun.

00:58 I'm actually in the 10th anniversary Rubicon.

01:01 So what makes it 10th anniversary?

01:04 Well, first, I'm about to go through

01:05 some pretty good mud here.

01:07 (engine rumbling)

01:09 I don't know how I'm gonna get through this.

01:10 Wow.

01:11 So like all Wranglers now,

01:13 this has a 3.6 liter Pentastar V6,

01:16 and this application makes 285 horsepower

01:19 and 270 pound feet of torque.

01:21 We've got a manual transmission,

01:22 which I really prefer for off-road,

01:24 because you can clutch in when you need to

01:26 and kind of just pause the vehicle.

01:28 Two speed transfer case, two wheel drive,

01:31 four high, four low.

01:32 Right now we're in four high.

01:33 We could totally be in one wheel drive at the moment,

01:36 but there's gonna be some sections

01:37 where we're gonna need four low, however not here.

01:40 And then when you get into the Rubicon level,

01:42 well, you've got Dana 44 axles, front and rear,

01:47 very thick, very stout axles, and they have lockers.

01:50 So I can, with the button over here,

01:51 I can lock the rear axle by itself

01:54 or lock the rear and the front one.

01:56 You can't lock the front axle by itself.

01:58 And honestly, there's very few situations

02:00 where you just need the front locked and not the rear.

02:04 Just locking the rear is pretty good

02:05 because with an axle locked,

02:07 it's very difficult to steer a vehicle.

02:09 Speaking of steering,

02:15 Rubicons also have an electronically

02:17 disengaging front sway bar.

02:20 And what that does is it kind of unscrews,

02:21 for lack of a better explanation,

02:23 and then you get more wheel articulation up front.

02:26 It also kind of makes the vehicle ride better.

02:28 It's a little bit more comfortable

02:29 when you're bouncing along a trail.

02:31 As for the 10th anniversary edition,

02:34 a lot of it is exterior stuff,

02:37 or cosmetic stuff, I should say.

02:38 You've got these red tow hooks,

02:40 front and rear, there's four of them.

02:42 I've got this Power Dome bulgy hood with these vents,

02:45 which kind of looks like the Jeep SRT8

02:48 Grand Cherokee edition.

02:49 It's kind of based on that.

02:51 I've got a red trim around stuff like the word Rubicon.

02:54 I've got these red leather seats.

02:56 I've got these cool,

02:57 they got rid of the normal running boards.

02:58 They put on these cool powder-coated rock sliders.

03:02 And so later on, when we're really on the big boulders,

03:04 we'll actually be able to slide down a rock,

03:05 which will be fun.

03:06 Okay?

03:12 Thank you.

03:15 Got that on camera?

03:16 (laughing)

03:19 - Where's the end, Mike?

03:20 - Woo!

03:21 The other cool thing the 10th anniversary has

03:25 is the badge itself.

03:26 It says, you know, 10th anniversary Rubicon,

03:28 but it's a very stylized kind of take

03:31 on a GI's dog tag from World War II.

03:33 And of course, remember, Wrangler's heritage

03:35 goes all the way back 70 years to World War II.

03:38 Why do they call it the Rubicon?

03:43 Well, aside from being a really great trail,

03:45 Jeep's actually been running Wranglers

03:48 on the Rubicon since 1953.

03:51 And there's very few vehicles in the world,

03:54 stock, that can run the Rubicon.

03:56 I mean, there's very few.

03:58 Perhaps the Toyota FJ,

04:00 maybe like a Range Rover, Land Rover,

04:04 LR4, something like that.

04:06 The Mercedes G-Wagon with better tires, perhaps.

04:11 But stuff like a Raptor, I mean, it's too wide.

04:14 This is, you know, there's a lot of people say

04:16 this is the trail that killed Hummer,

04:18 because the H2 was just physically too big

04:21 to run this trail.

04:22 And again, back here we're in Wrangler

04:24 with the doors off and no mirror,

04:26 you can just kind of fit everywhere,

04:28 and go over anything.

04:30 So it's a very serious trail,

04:31 it's a very, very impressive vehicle.

04:34 That's awesome.

04:37 (engine revving)

04:47 (dramatic music)

04:50 What I like so much about the Wrangler though,

05:03 is as you can see, we've got the doors off.

05:06 And is there anything better than four-wheeling

05:08 with the doors off?

05:09 I say no, a whole bunch of reasons.

05:12 One is, I mean, it's so beautiful out here,

05:14 and you can see more of it.

05:15 You know, it's like, almost like riding a motorcycle

05:17 off-road, you can just see and smell and feel everything.

05:21 And you know, that's a point like,

05:23 the Range Rover, the new Range Rover,

05:25 totally capable car, fantastic car,

05:27 but you're so isolated from everything.

05:30 This is the opposite.

05:31 (dramatic music)

05:34 (engine revving)

05:37 Call you?

05:52 Oh, okay, call Billy, all right.

05:53 Yeah, so right now we're on one of the more

06:01 hardcore sections of the Rubicon,

06:03 and we're basically crawling on rocks,

06:06 bouncing off rocks, and sliding over rocks.

06:08 It's pretty incredible, and it's funny,

06:12 'cause we're Motor Trend, we test cars,

06:14 and we had, like I said, we had that long wheelbase,

06:17 four-door, 10th anniversary Rubicon in the office.

06:19 And you know, we put it through our standard battery

06:22 of tests, and it went zero to 60 in 8.4 seconds.

06:26 Sure, your short wheelbase, two-door with a manual

06:29 would be a little bit quicker than that,

06:30 and it ran the quarter mile in 16.4 at 82 miles an hour.

06:34 But again, here we are on one of the most

06:39 hardcore off-road trails in existence,

06:43 and this is a stock vehicle, and it's just scooting along.

06:46 So I'm just blown away by it.

06:50 I can't believe that something you can just go to a dealer,

06:54 buy, and drive right to this trailhead, get in and go,

06:58 and maybe take the doors off, but I just can't believe

07:01 it's this capable, it just boggles my mind.

07:04 So how do you even sum something like this up?

07:12 I mean, aside from getting sunburned on my knee,

07:15 the only thing I didn't like was having to poop

07:19 in the woods like the Pope of Beartown,

07:21 but I mean, all I'm really thinking about is,

07:23 what is Jeep gonna do with this thing

07:26 when I'm done with it?

07:27 You know what I mean?

07:28 Like, it's a press car, I sadly have to give it back,

07:31 but maybe I could buy it.

07:34 I mean, it's just, it's hard to explain

07:36 how much fun I'm having right now,

07:38 but if you can, man, I'm serious, if you can,

07:42 buy yourself a Jeep, get a Wrangler Rubicon,

07:44 'cause you can run this trail stocked,

07:46 come out here to California, get your buddies,

07:49 get your girls, get a dog, get a tent and a sleeping bag,

07:53 just come and do this, because in this day and age,

07:56 to be able to just do this with no restrictions,

08:00 take your doors off, go crazy, it's such a blast, man.

08:04 I just, I absolutely love it,

08:07 and I'm pretty sure you will too.

08:09 See you next time.

08:11 (upbeat music)

08:15 Yeah, good?

08:20 (upbeat music)

08:23 All right, drop back, Johnny.

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2013 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 10th Anniversary Edition: At Home on the Rubicon Trail! - Ignition Ep. 78

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