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ROOFTOP
The soft top is
standard, but as with
the Wrangler, there’s
an optional hard top.
OSTENSIBLY, THE 2020
Jeep Gladiator is a midsize
pickup truck and thus a
peer to the Ford Ranger,

BED Chevy Colorado, and
It’s 60.3 inches Toyota Tacoma. It has four
long, and the doors and a bed, and it can
rear overhang tow stuff . But those four
is 51 inches.
doors are removable. The
standard roof is a con-
vertible soft top. You can
fold the windshield down.
Wrangler drivers give you
the Jeep Wave, recogniz-
ing a fellow patron of solid
axles. People walk up and
ask if you built it yourself.
On a graph of fun versus
refi nement, Jeep’s pickup
is way out on the goofy side,
intentionally not slick. It’s
noisy, and the solid-axle
front end wanders like a
loose beagle. The
standard V-6’s
peaky, high-rpm
STATS power delivery is
Jeep comically out of
Gladiator
sync with the Glad-
Base price: $35,040 iator’s otherwise
WHEELS
The Sport and the Sport Horsepower: 285 brutish persona
S with the Max Tow (peak horsepower
package as well as the Torque: 260 ft-lb at 6,400 rpm, peak
Rubicon have axles Fuel economy: 19 mpg
that are an inch and a torque at 4,400
half wider than the Transmission: rpm). Overall, it’s
standard Gladiator’s. Six-speed manual or useful and enter-
eight-speed automatic
taining at the same
Tow rating: 7,650 lb
time—hey, I’ve
Four-wheel drive: got the top down
Part-time
and . . . I’m going
to the dump! Okay,
maybe you should
leave the top up for that
one. But how about towing
a boat or hauling a bunch
of bikes to the trail? Those
are normally chores. Yet
when your work truck has
no doors, the trip becomes
part of the fun.

On Henry Cavill: Thermal shirt by
Banana Republic; pants by John
Varvatos; boots by the Frye Company.

It’s a four-door convertible. It’s a pickup truck. It’ll tow a boat.

The 2020 Jeep Gladiator has no competition. By Ezra Dyer

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