We didn’t need another reason to look at the Jeep Renegade with disdain. It’s a cute-ute trying to be a big, bad, butch Jeep and fails miserably at the task, mostly because it’s a Fiat 500L that is trying way too hard. But apparently it does have one neat trick up it’s sleeve that nobody noticed until the Spanish automotive online group KM77.com discovered it by accident. During testing, Pablo David Gonzalez decided to drill the brakes at about 85 miles an hour and was rewarded with the back end of the Renegade hanging out in the breeze, with plenty of sunlight seen underneath the rear tires…not the ideal conditions when you are trying to panic-stop. After getting in contact with FCA’s contact in Spain, he was informed that the vehicle was a preproduction prototype and that the issue had been sorted.
Except whoopsie, it hadn’t, as a later test of a different model of Renegade produced the same rear-end hike. Add to the bonus, the original Jeep had been sold to a customer, who Gonzalez contacted to inform of their new Renegade’s party trick. Car to wonder what happened after they saw the footage?
Weird, you’d think when the rear tires come off of the ground, they would stop spinning. Maybe the rear brakes are way out of adjustment with too much bias to the front.
wouldn’t the antilock brakes have a fit if the wheels left the ground, probably ‘think’ they locked up and let them loose?
That Jeep/Fiat doesn’t need anti lock brakes, it needs anti launch brakes!
Of course Fiat can ruin a classic marque. Let me count the ways…. oh wait, the number keeps getting bigger!
Hideous and predictable. Fiat spells “The death of an icon”
How is it at all like a Corvair?