According to caranddriver for the 2012 Jeep Wrangler. It’s hard to imagine a scenario in which having six dash lights ablaze in our instrument cluster wouldn’t induce sheer panic. But out here on California’s gnarly, rocky Rubicon Trail, the glowing icons—for low tire pressure, ESC off, anti-roll bar disconnected, front-differential locker engaged, rear locker engaged, and four-wheel-drive active—are a welcome sight. Less welcome is the shriek from underneath the 2012 Jeep Wrangler as skid-plate metal attempts to grind itself back into the earth, whence it came. And we’re just at the beginning of the trail.
Strapped into a new Rubicon-edition Wrangler (no coincidence, that), we chuckle, sometimes fret, as the Jeep’s 32-inch knobbies scavenge for grip in bedrock and up crag faces that turn our view into a disorienting sea of blue and white. The trail is as eager as ever to fold tailpipes and bumpers, and its cambered rock valleys are tight enough to put a hold on normal respiration. The Rubicon Trail is a mean maid. But, fittingly, even a bone-stock Wrangler Rubicon can tame it. So, point taken: Nothing Jeep has done to the 2012 model has made a sissy of the Wrangler.
This ’12 Wrangler is actually the culmination of a two-part refresh that began with the 2011 model. Last year, the cabin was rid of plastics as unyielding as the boulders we’re crawling over. It might not have reached a Bentley level of poshness, but the interior now favors dash wipes over garden hoses. Along with new heated mirrors and seats and added sound deadening, the Wrangler’s polish continues outside when optioned with the body-colored hardtop. In sum, it is a convincing enticement to customers holding reservations about living day to day with a Wrangler. But even as the ’11 Jeep gained amenities, it remained handicapped by its dismal powertrain, which included a four-speed slushbox and a wheezy 202-hp, 3.8-liter V-6. The 2012 Wrangler rectifies this via Chrysler’s new but already ubiquitous Pentastar V-6.
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