3:35 _"It offers enough room to store 2,443 rubber ducks. We'll take their word for it."_ I'm just imagining Rory at the shop finding rubber ducks for sale and calculating on his phone how much it would cost to check Jeep's claim, and his eyes going wide. _"We'll take their word for it."_
They failed once,the fact they never abandoned the test and kept driving a dangerous car said more than enough,did he really expect a Brake Malfunction to miraculously fix itself if kept driving 🤔
@@alancobbin Many die due to single failure 😅... Jeep has always been unreliable and unsafe... Atleast land rovers are safe for such high rates of breakdown... Any accident in jeep and you're dead... 😂🤣😂
The duck thing is amazing. My friend has a wrangler, we went camping in West Virginia, came out of the general store and there was a rubber duck sitting on his hood. The lady to started the foundation just happened to be there. Her son had passed from cancer so for the funeral, she asked people with Jeeps to come…amazingly, almost 200 Jeeps from across the US showed. Check it out. That’s why Jeepers ‘duck’.
The American style x petrol cans are known as Jerry Cans. Jerry was the "offensive name for the enemy ending with the sound y" that was adopted by the US for the Germans in WW2. (see also Charlie, Haji) Jerry Cans were known as such because they were what the Germans had. As with most things German they had actual engineering in their design unlike allied cans which were mainly made of tin foil. Dan Dun Dun Dun! Rainbow star...
I really enjoyed the journalist. Reasonable opinion not positive or negative just as it is. I was in love with the avenger but now I doubt. I will look further. Maybe a duster!
The new Volvo EX30 is a similar starting price, is more modern, faster, safer, better equipped, charges faster and is just all round better quality. Struggling to see how the Jeep is in any way interesting or competitive, let alone car of the year.
I think it won because it’s a likeable car. There’s nothing inoffensive about it, it’s practical and well designed. Impractical, flawed or expensive cars win car of the year all of the time. Sometimes really dull stuff wins. I think this is a decent all rounder though the price is pretty steep. The EX30 and the Fisker Pear will blow this out of the water though. It has a head start before values go through the floor. I guess that’s the story with all of the current crop of EVs though. The tech is moving so fast.
I think we can all thank stellantis for this. I drivena couple of Renegades from FCA times, whi then were cheapest Jeeps, and built quality was way better.
Looks a bit cheap and nasty to my eyes and I would expect something like this to cost in the 25K region. Not sure about Avenger….. it looks a bit like an Alegro from the front 😂
Nah, pretty much any wrangler. It’s a HUGE deal here in the US. Lots of people take the doors off and drive them around all summer. Lots of cheap open air fun for a family
Jeep drivers are always friendly. You see them happily chatting away in laybys as they await the breakdown recovery service 8-))... So here are two acronyms for you ;-))... Junk Engineering Executed Poorly _and_ Just Expect Excessive Problems
Ive been waiting 2 years for parts for my 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee that unlocks the steering wheel so the car can drive, Jeep cannot provide me the parts, they have told me that manufacturing stopped during COVID and has never started back up, they held $2000 in cash for 15 months until I finally demanded it back as they couldn’t get the part. A contractor working on my house has a brand new 2023 model thats 6 months old and its been sitting in Jeep waiting for parts for 6 weeks whilst he drives a loan car, they told him not to put my KM on it 😳. The circus around the Carwow video and the cover up to hide this should be a warning to anyone considering a car from Jeep or the larger Stellantis group and any of their brands to avoid all of them, you don’t need to be a genius to recognise a sinking ship
The thing about plastic is it lasts forever on car interiors, as the Japanese have proved since the late 80s. It all wears well and is hardy and sturdy compared to soft touch alternatives. So, while the car is built to a price I bet these will be like roaches in 20 years assuming batteries can be replaced.
What’s with so many car reviewers using roads around Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire? Here is Rory using the road from Charlbury to Burford, through the Wychwood Forest, the same one Harry Metcalf uses for his reviews and Matt Watson generally uses the roads around Deddington and out towards Enstone, just a few miles to the East. Could it be that they all live in the area (Harry certainly does), or are they members of Soho Farmhouse at Great Tew? Or is it the Clarkson Farm tractor beam, sucking them into the area around Jeremy’s gaff at Chadlington? Curious.
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I recognised the road the film was made on, as I live in the area and use it regularly. It just amused me that lots of road tests seem to take place in the proximity of Diddly Squat farm.
Interesting review Not all of the superheroes wear capes They drive around in an electric ⚡ yellow Jeep Avenger. Thinking it looks good. It's different from all the mundane european boxes that are on our roads. Shame about the build quality Black moveable plastic. No arm rest or ventilation in the rear. What about the 2443 rubber ducks in the boot😅 Is it car of the year no I have to agree there are much better cars like the Ferrari Purosangue. One of your best reviews Stunningly beautiful location and an awesome car. At the end of the day It's a Jeep It's Different. Even though it has a starting price at 36k rising to over 40k Will people buy it. You know they will
Not trying to offend anyone but honestly haven’t been able to understand why some ppl love Jeep, clearly from this video it doesn’t look very comfortable for the passengers, and Mercedes def win the interior awards.
Don't expect to get many, if any, rubber ducks or waves in this vehicle, or most Jeeps for that matter. Those are nearly always reserved for "real" Jeeps, the ones with straight axles, 4-wheel drive, and removable roof and doors. Think Willys models, CJs, DJs, Wranglers, and Gladiators. You don't see Cherokees, Wagoneers, Compasses, or Renegades getting those, and the Avenger is even less Jeep-like.
I‘ve been sitting in a Fiat 600e recently - basically a two-seater as opposed to the Smart #1, which is more comparable to a VW ID3 in terms of interior space. The Smart is - and I guess the EX30 will be - a pretty decent offering overall.
Of course not. Those "titles" are being bought. Is a known practice already. There's nothing car of the year about this cross-dressing Fiat. Is a tiny lifted hatchback with a stupid high price. This is not a Jeep, (a fun serious offroader), but a vehicle for the metrosexual libertarian minds, the poosers. It's a small hatchback sold for the price of a premium sport sedan with double it's power and great performance. (tesla model 3). This cross-dressing Fiat would be ok if the price were right, aka 30.000 eur for the top trim, based on what it offers
The interior of the Jeep avenger feels like a budget car with a premium price. Seriously, not only Jeep but the american car brands keep getting worse. Think about Chrysler, Chevrolet, Jeep.... the exception for now might be ford that still makes a competitive cars.
World Car doesn't equal best car! It's meant to have the greatest impact and value for money. Also untrue that Jeep doesn't address urban families, the Cherokee has done that for decades.
@@jjobar pre production press cars none on sale to customers. So all the cars that came after for the majority of 2023 were not in the running no matter how much better they are and there are plenty of them. How on earth can a title be handed out at the beginning of the year?
On my Tesla Model 3 each driver has a profile in the car that remembers everything from seat position, mirror and steering wheel position, safety settings, control customisations, preferred temperature and it recognises who gets in and adjusts everything for you when you get in. Given I am 6'3" and my wife is 5'5" it's amazingly convenient and I'm not sure how I will do without it if my next car doesn't do all that for me 😄
Good review. The car seems to me to be a perfect example of how to sell a cheaply built car for lot of money. (But aren’t they all the same these days..?) I’d personally rather buy a one or two year old high spec German car for the same money, but that’s just my opinion.
Car of the year is meaningless award , every single magazine is giving out car of the year awards. It's a another bad Stellantis product that you should stay away from
I've been watching some chinese eletric cars reviews (BYD) and they seem to have more quality than this JEEP, specially on the interior....maybe this explains why they are trying to block them with more taxes.
These car of the year awards *smell*. To me it sounds like a payola - "send our jurists on all-expenses paid jollies (and maybe something under the table) and in return we "award" you a title you can use to fool consumers into buying the car". The smell for 2023 was especially bad considering the Jeep didn't even go into mass production until late 2023 and yet won in January? And when it did turn up, people agreed it was a nice looking car, but unreliable and underwhelming.
Mat from carwow gave it a "shortlist" despite the fact it broke down 4 times during the review and he clearly hated it... wonder how much jeep paid him? The video was taken down shortly after. wonder why? The car looks horrifically cheap and Jeep are one of the most unreliable brands out there.
Rory, I think it only applies to the Jeep Wranglers that will wave at each other. They think all other Jeep are posers. It's like the bikers that always wave to other bikers.
Oh, come on! It is a Stellantis Group car, with all the inherent quality issues of those. Carwow Mat reviewed it and it had four (4!) failures! Every time a breaking system alarm! I got a 2007 Toyota Yaris, that has done 344.000 km and it got perfect breaks and no alarms! Ever! You got to be a car journalist to like a car like that. Even if I were in to EV's, what about the fact, that it competes directly in price with much better cars like Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV 6 and MG4, all with 7 year warranty. Actually, it is smaller than the Hyundai Kona or Kia e-Niro, which also are cheaper, got better warranty, got better battery packs, longer range and more power.
You lost me with MG4. A travesty that you would compare that with Ioniq 5 and EV6... I would get a Jeep Avenger over an MG4 any day of the week. And for the other two, they are significantly more expensive and not directly comparable to the Avenger.
This is one of the things that bugs me... 'Car of the year' awards AT THE BEGINNING/EARLY PART OF THE YEAR! It's just a marketing CON. It makesabsolutely NO sense for a cunsumers point of view. WHY NOT near the end of the year when they have all the new makes/models, even versions/level of trims, and vitally, some sense of reliabilty of cars that have been released during the year in question? I mean, heck, IF they had awarded this Jeep all these awards, and then found out that an engine component regularly 'Lunched' the motor, or another compnent necessitated the MASS RECALL of the car (be it safety or whatever) a number of months later? Well... Certainly an 'Egg on faces' moment eh? 😏. You WOULDN'T give a crap tonne of awards to a movie say BEFORE it was released to the audiences would you? It could VERY WELL flop BIG STYLE (well, as is common these days). To me, 'Car of the year' awards (and the magazines that give them), are just MORONIC, it's all just a scam and nothing more! I prefer to read reviews on what has been out at least a year to get the TRUE sense of what cars (or whatever I personally am looking to buy) to learn and understand WHAT EXACTLY IS... And ISN'T a good product with regards to build quality, reliability, and value... 🤔😏 😎🇬🇧
You would have to a complete idiot to buy a Jeep product in Europe. I say this as someone who is on their 12th Jeep. Since I have moved back to Europe, I was completely shocked how badly Jeep treats their customers. The dealer network is a special kind of hell. They do whatever they can to deny warranty claims. I had this situation several times on a Wrangler with 12k kms on the clock. DO NOT BUY A JEEP IF YOU LIVE IN EUROPE.
Hey Rory @Autotrader, the main question is "Is it better than Peugeot e-2008?" e-2008 seems a slightly more premium design, better interiors and more practical, whats your take?
Off road mode but its front wheel drive? Not something you'd really want to take off road.. How on earth does something as mediocre yet as expensive as this win any accolades? Has to be a lot of back handers going on for that to happen. Anyone who buys this is clueless. You could buy a really decent german car for £30k... I wouldn't even pay £15k for that.
very good review and pretty much the same thoughts about the Jeep as I had after driving it twice. It is far too expensive for its size, top spec should be at least 5000 €’s cheaper, especially when compared to the Chinese opposition. Top marks though for the Italian design and French engine technology. I just hope the heat pump works well here in Finland, at the moment you can’t preheat for charging stops, something that is urgently needed in an update when driving in minus 20C conditions!
Autotrader, amazing editing. The new style suits your channel with a combo of Rory's review. Autotrader, have a car like a Bugatti and do this editing style. You will gain a new fan base. Amzaing job editor.
