Consumer Reports

[alan6271]

I just read a report from Consumer Reports that all the Jeep vehicles took up spots on the worst 15 cars to own.  That's probably why the garbage disposal they said was the best broke the first year I had it.  Then the second one broke.  Then I bought a dryer they said was the best.  That cost about $250 to fix the fourth year I had it. 

[LPM606]

I'm surprised they are considered worst... Especially the Grand Cherokee... what were the criteria?  Do you have a link to the article?

[StingRay66]

The people who rate them drive a Prius what do they know about a good automobile

[alan6271]

I'm surprised they are considered worst... Especially the Grand Cherokee... what were the criteria?  Do you have a link to the article?

I can't find the link now.  I came across the link this morning off the Foxnews.com website.  I will post it later when I get home and can pull my browsing history. 

[alan6271]

Hi Guys. Sorry, my mistake.  It was on the Forbes list. 

http://www2.forbes.com/business/15-new-cars-to-avoid/9/

[alan6271]

Hi Guys. Sorry, my mistake.  It was on the Forbes list. 

http://www2.forbes.com/business/15-new-cars-to-avoid/9/

Although in the article they do say "True, they get great resale value, but the Wranglers placed among the lowest scoring models in Consumer Reports' testing, with the Unlimited also falling on its worst-values list; "

[Paul Hittie]

I would gladly include our (former) 2008 JKU as one of the worst new vehicles I have ever owned

[bullhed78]

Let's face it, you gotta want a jeep to like a jeep. You have to have a desire to use its off-road capabilities or cool factor to own one. If all you want is a decent vehichle for said amount of $$$ you would be a fool to buy a wrangler. There are way more comfortable way more fuel efficient vehicles out there for the money. You can't compare apples to apples when you are comparing a wrangler to anything.

[alan6271]

Let's face it, you gotta want a jeep to like a jeep. You have to have a desire to use its off-road capabilities or cool factor to own one. If all you want is a decent vehichle for said amount of $$$ you would be a fool to buy a wrangler. There are way more comfortable way more fuel efficient vehicles out there for the money. You can't compare apples to apples when you are comparing a wrangler to anything.

True.  I agree on the Wrangler.  Like the saying goes "It's a Jeep thing, you wouldn't understand!" but what I don't understand is how they don't like the Grand Cherokee.  That makes no sense to me.  The New Grand Cherokee is just straight up high class bad azz.  Quiet, sophisticated, roomy, very techy.