JL interior?

What a lot of people are missing as a lot of these features you're seeing buttons for are government mandate now.

Back up camera, auto stop/start, forward collision alert, etc are all government mandate in vehicles now. The Wrangler HAS to follow along with current regulations, there's no way around it. As far as electronic transfercase, my 13 Grand Cherokee had it, and I have no complaints on it. I do prefer a traditional mechanical unit, but Jeep knows what they're doing when it comes to electronic 4x4 systems.

As far as the interior goes, I love it. I think it's a good mix of new and old style. I also dig the body color dash.
 
Pics are great! I think the new dash looks cool. As with all new vehicles, jeep is competing with several others makes and needs to bring their vehicle up to a modern era in order to not be left out when soccer moms are deciding which vehicle to purchase.


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Call me crazy but I'm digging it. The newest Uconnect 8.4" touch screen systems in '17 FCA vehicles have Apple Car Play as well as the Android based version as well.


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Does anyone know a realistic release date and no more spy pics? I've had a '10 and a '13 and about to buy another one but I cannot decide if I want a Grand Cherokee with a removable roof or just buy a JKU Recon package and call it a day.


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With regards to the ultra high tech interior and damage from the elements while going topless, it amazes me the number of people who have hard tops nationally and never remove them. The removable soft top may iconic, but with the majority of owners it appears that at most they just roll up the back window and pull the rear/side panels. The full hard or soft top is rarely removed. I think that increasingly, those of us who wish to see more of the iconic features remain are much more in the minority than we think. The number of regular convertible cars has even drastically diminished over the last 10 years. Probably too hard to hear the cell phone... To put it another way, we may be the equivalent of the horse and buggy people ranting about how nobody will want an automobile. Times change and technology advances with or without us. I wonder what a jeep will be in another 20 years?
 
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With regards to the ultra high tech interior and damage from the elements while going topless, it amazes me the number of people who have hard tops nationally and never remove them. The removable soft top may iconic, but with the majority of owners it appears that at most they just roll up the back window and pull the rear/side panels. The full hard or soft top is rarely removed. I think that increasingly, those of us who wish to see more of the iconic features remain are much more in the minority than we think. The number of regular convertible cars has even drastically diminished over the last 10 years. Probably too hard to hear the cell phone... To put it another way, we may be the equivalent of the horse and buggy people ranting about how nobody will want an automobile. Times change and technology advances with or without us. I wonder what a jeep will be in another 20 years?
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Solid point. Now that you have mentioned it I do see a lot of hardtops or soft tops left on rather than completely removed.


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Looks like a round dial where the transfer case lever SHOULD be. How would you guys feel about something like this in your wrangler??
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That is truly disappointing, it's enough to turn me off of buying one. They're taking the rugged jeepness out of it and slowly turning it into a glorified station wagon.


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I wouldn't be surprised if the automatics feature the rotary shift "PRND" knob that a lot of the current Chryslers have including the RAM. Has anyone mentioned it or heard otherwise? Now that I think a bit more about it, for as many Chrysler products that it's in, I don't recall seeing it in any Jeeps products yet. Perhaps they'll put a similar electronic system as the Grand Cherokee uses.:hmm:
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if the automatics feature the rotary shift "PRND" knob that a lot of the current Chryslers have including the RAM. Has anyone mentioned it or heard otherwise? Now that I think a bit more about it, for as many Chrysler products that it's in, I don't recall seeing it in any Jeeps products yet. Perhaps they'll put a similar electronic system as the Grand Cherokee uses.:hmm:
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So a friend of mine wanted to drag race with an automatic. When the light turned green, he chose "L" for launch. When he got off the line, he then selected "D" for drag. Finally, when he got really moving, he put the transmission into "R" for race.

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E-Parking brake

The E-parking brake really sucks and should not be on a Wrangler with off-road use. My wife has a new 17 Cherokee with it, and while we were on vacation the battery in the car died (yes with only 1500 miles too, and three days for the dealer to get another one). First in the morning from the hotel and we thought we must of left the lights on, but then we were at a gas station (after about 3 hours of driving) and it happened again, but the car would not disengage the electric parking brake for us to push it at least out of the pump area to the side while we waited for the towing company for the jump (And right before we left I had taken out the portable power unit I had as we needed the space, and it's a brand new car shouldn't have to worry about the battery .. Face palm).
Since the E Brake automatically engages when switched into park by default ( and I now have this turned off in the braking settings in the radio controls) if you were having issues and needed to stop on the side of the road and put it in park, it could be dangerous if you needed to move it and couldn't get the parking brake disengaged.

I also wonder what would happen with an electrical malfunction if you could get the parking brake to come on in an emergency. Or your out on a trail, and you can't it it disengaged.

Not a fan at all of this .. Unless they have some other sort of way to control it, my JK will be here for a long time.
 
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Beowulf said:
It looks too high up to be a turn knob. That looks more like the top of the transfer case lever. It is half way up the shift lever in height. My guess is twin sticks.
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now wouldn't that be interesting twin sticks with a terrain selelection knob
 
DeJkUnlimited said:
I wouldn't be surprised if the automatics feature the rotary shift "PRND" knob that a lot of the current Chryslers have including the RAM. Has anyone mentioned it or heard otherwise? Now that I think a bit more about it, for as many Chrysler products that it's in, I don't recall seeing it in any Jeeps products yet. Perhaps they'll put a similar electronic system as the Grand Cherokee uses.:hmm:
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so what goes around comes around my very first car was a Plymouth with a push button transmission p n d r etc. can you guess the year .....................1957
 
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