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Check Out This Video Of The Jeep Renegade Playing In The Sandbox And Splashing In The Puddles


Check Out This Video Of The Jeep Renegade Playing In The Sandbox And Splashing In The Puddles

I can’t even mask the contempt I have for the Jeep Renegade anymore. It’s obnoxiously focused on being a cute Jeep-y looking little thing and every time someone tries to make me think that it’s a capable off-roader I can’t help but see a bumbling little puppy that pees a little every time it gets excited. Not that I’m into the Jeep scene that much, but my father was, and I’m certain that if he was around to see this …thing in person the first sentence he’d utter would be the long version of “WTF?!”

FCA is adamant that the Renegade is indeed a useable off-roader, especially in Trailhawk guise, so they have started putting together a series of YouTube videos documenting “Tales of the Trailhawk”, which sounds like a medium-level Golden Book for kids. In this particular video, a Renegade is romping and playing around at Silver Lake Sand Dunes in Michigan and while it looks perfectly happy in the sand, what gets me is the way they splash through puddles while espousing the fording traits of the Trailhawk. The off-road Renegade is rated to 19″ fording at 5mph, which on my 6’3″ frame is right at the lowest point of my calf muscle. I don’t know what the base is between “splashing through a puddle” and “fording water” is, but when a water main break is referenced as a possible obstacle, you might want to upgrade a level or three, especially if you are serious about going off-road at all.

Watch the clip below and tell us what you think. Am I right or is this thing going to be like a Samurai and end up good?

Courtesy: Jalopnik


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8 thoughts on “Check Out This Video Of The Jeep Renegade Playing In The Sandbox And Splashing In The Puddles

  1. mooseface

    I recognize her. She was the one that kept dropping “articulation” every ten seconds during the preview video of the new Grand Something-or-Other. The problem is, I saw no articulation. Generally, that connotes a soft enough suspension that all wheels remain planted while climbing over obstacles, but this thing had two or three wheels at a time hanging off of rock.

    It’s kind of the same thing here, she’s saying “fording” but it’s really just plowing a wake through an overgrown puddle.
    Also, doesn’t taking a Heep through a puddle void the warranty? A mechanic friend of mine had a customer get dropped by the local stealership because he took his jeep through a puddle and sucked water in through the breathers.

  2. Andamo

    But the ad will be on TV and the stupid sheeple see this and run out a buy one just because it’s on TV. Don’t do your homework or apply any common sense, just sign on the dotted line. Who cares what it costs, as long as they can make the monthly payment for 72 months. Idiots……..

  3. BeaverMartin

    Soccer moms will like em, but the General Mayhem Charger could do better off road. For some reason I really want Subaru to call jeep out in an off road challenge. A well driven Outback could smoke the Cherokee and Renegade off road. Do a series of challenges on the Rubicon to really stick the knife in.

      1. BeaverMartin

        Your right. I said rubicon, but I was thinking Moab, select portions of course. Even one of those concrete off road demo courses would work. I think a Forester would smoke the Renegade.

        1. mooseface

          I’m pretty sure a small AWD rig like those could handled much of Moab. I always thought Moab was some kind of wheeling nirvana with rocks everywhere, but it’s surprisingly tame.

  4. Tom Slater

    If anyone, anyone at all was expecting or even just hoping the Renegade was going to live up to Jeep’s WWII origins (which the Wrangler is doing just fine) they are living in a world of fantasy, magic and horseshit. Ditto for the Cherokee (new), Patriot, Liberty and Compass.
    Jeep can’t survive on solid axle vehicles for disappointed posers and the off-road purists.
    What they can do, though, is build CUV’s that will beat the snot out of other CUVs when the owner likes to go camping in far-flung locations arrived at via old logging roads.
    If it’s Renegade or (what does the Renegade compare to? Screwit) Cherokee vs CRV, Rav4, or whatever – I’ll take the Jeep model.
    If you want to keep up with a Defender or FJ-62, buy the wrangler.
    It’s not complicated.

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