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2020 Jeep Renegade Limited - Watch Before You Buy! - YouTube
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- Conventional wisdom
in America says that,
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"Bigger is always better."
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Right?
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This is the land of big
SUV, big trucks, big gulps,
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but this is the 2020
Jeep Renegade Limited.
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And this is the smallest
Jeep that you can buy,
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and in fact, it also
has the smallest engine.
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So what we're gonna do
today is I'm gonna show you
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the interior, go through
all the cool technology,
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I'm gonna drive it on the street.
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And then, because this is the Limited,
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this is the most luxurious
Renegade available.
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It's not the most off-road capable,
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but we're here in the middle of nowhere.
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We're gonna take it off-road
and actually see how it does.
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And we're gonna find out if smaller
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is just as good as bigger.
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We drove the canyons to find
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the most epic challenge possible,
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but it turns out sometimes you
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just gotta work with what you've got.
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So we actually found our first challenge,
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This is a fjord, I don't
know how deep it is yet,
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we're gonna find out
in a couple of minutes.
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So we're gonna take the Jeep through this.
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We're gonna see how it does.
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It has a couple of different drive modes.
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So by default, this is a
front-wheel drive vehicle,
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but it does have...
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you can lock it in four-wheel drive mode
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and so the rear axle will engage.
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I think we're gonna try mud
over here and see how it does.
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So let's...
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let's run through and let's see
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how this bad boy behaves in the mud.
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(upbeat music)
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That worked pretty good.
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Okay, so this wasn't
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the deepest mud bog imaginable,
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but the Jeep had no trouble at all
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where a two-wheel drive vehicle might've
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had some difficulty.
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So first we're gonna take it off-road
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and then we are going to
check out the interior.
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(upbeat music)
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This the Jeep Renegade Limited,
and we're on a trail here.
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Now, this is not a Trail-Rated vehicle.
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The most Trail-Rated
Renegade you're gonna get
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is the Trailhawk, and there's
a couple key differences
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between the Limited and the Trailhawk.
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Namely it has some skid
plates underneath it,
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so it is more rated for
going on trails like this,
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it also has a little bit
better ground clearance,
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but primarily it has a transfer case
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in four-wheel drive low.
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So it's gonna be able to
transfer power more effectively,
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front to rear under difficult conditions.
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However, I've been
driving this in Sand mode,
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and what that does is it does
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an all-wheel drive lock,
four-wheel drive lock,
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so essentially it starts sending
power to the rear wheels.
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Not quite as clever as the Trailhawk,
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but hey, this is the Jeep.
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And even though it's not Trail-Rated,
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this is doing just fine
on moderate trails.
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This is a level three trail,
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and I'm having no difficulty at all here.
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So if you're buying this vehicle
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and you live in the
countryside for example,
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and you're wondering if
this is gonna get you
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through a snow storm or
get you through some mud
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or some inclement weather
or just a little bit
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of light off-road terrain,
this is more than fine,
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this is doing quite well.
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The traction control system in here,
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rather the all-wheel drive system in here
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is called Selec-Terrain.
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So Selec-Terrain is able to transfer power
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to the appropriate wheel to some degree
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but like I said before, it's not as clever
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as the Trailhawk.
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It's not as highly off-road
rated as the Trailhawk is.
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Now you would think a vehicle like this
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is not gonna be that capable off-road,
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'cause this has all season tires on it.
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And to be honest, I
wouldn't recommend this
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for any heavy-duty trail use.
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Oh, we've got a little,
little wheel slip there,
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but for what we're doing right now,
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which is just some light trail usage,
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I don't think anybody's gonna
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have any real difficulty with this at all.
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This is more than capable enough to go on
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a light trail like this, I think.
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And also, you know,
something about the interior
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that I haven't mentioned before either
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is that it's a leather.
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So I don't know if you're gonna wanna
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be taking this off-road,
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but aside from the fact
that it is leather,
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this is like a pretty durable interior,
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you could really beat it
up and probably give us
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a fair bit of abuse and it's
probably gonna be just fine.
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This is something that
I definitely can not do
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in my Supra or any other car that I own,
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which are sports cars.
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So this is really cool
to be able to go off-road
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like this and enjoy a little outdoors
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and enjoy what is a trail that pretty much
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your average car isn't
gonna be able to go over.
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But this, this is pretty good.
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This has got plenty of ground clearance.
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So in terms of off-roading,
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even though this is not Trail-Rated,
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this seems to do pretty well.
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Let's check out the interior.
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(country music)
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Now the Renegade is the
smallest Jeep you can buy,
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but the interior space is actually
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a little bit better
than I was anticipating.
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The seats are pretty comfortable,
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in the Limited it gets
leather trimmed seats.
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Now, one of my complaints
is that everything
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in here is really quite black.
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There's a little bit of accent stitching
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on the seats which is gray,
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but everything else is super black.
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I like a little bit more color in here,
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but the seats, the driver's
seat is eight-way adjustable.
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Unfortunately, no memory,
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but you can adjust lumbar support too.
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So it fits me pretty well, I
find it pretty comfortable.
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Now the backseats are
also surprisingly roomy.
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I'm five foot nine, and I can sit behind
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myself pretty decently.
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If I were six one, I think
that might be an issue,
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but if you've got kids or you
got occasional passengers,
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I think it's gonna be just
fine in terms of space.
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Now the Mazda CX-3 is pretty close
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in terms of interior cabin space.
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This has a little bit more
cargo space than the Mazda does.
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With the rear seat up, this
has got about 19 cubic feet
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behind the rear seat in
terms of cargo space,
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and when you fold the rear seat down,
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you've got about 50 cubic feet.
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The materials in here are okay,
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this car has a base price of $28,000.
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Yes, it does have leather trimmed seats
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and the leather steering
wheel is quite nice too.
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But the rest of the cabin
has sort of okay materials,
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the tops of the doors are
a little bit hard plastic,
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it does have some soft touch
on the doors themselves.
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Overall, the fit and finish
seems pretty good in here,
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but this is not a high-end luxury vehicle.
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You're gonna find if you like
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a better cabin and
that's important to you,
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there's probably some better
choices out there than this.
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That said, this seems
to be pretty durable.
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The Limited has a base
price of about $28,000
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and it is probably one
of the more luxurious
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and perhaps the most luxurious
Renegade that you can get.
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Not to say that this is a luxury vehicle,
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but it does have a lot of features
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that the lower levels don't have.
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This also has auto stop-start,
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it has voice command
which is kind of cool.
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You can give it a
destination by your voice
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and it works fairly well.
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It's got a USB port and an
additional 115 volt USB port,
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I kinda like that.
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It's also got a USB port in the rear seat,
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that's really nice if you got people back
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there all the time.
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This particular vehicle has
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the customer preferred
package, it's $2,000.
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It has LED headlights, LED tail lights.
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It has a bigger 8.5
inch navigation screen,
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I like that quite a bit.
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It's got the Uconnect infotainment system,
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but this has the bigger screen.
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It's quite responsive.
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Uconnect is fairly easy to use.
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You can do a lot of different
functions on the screen.
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This particular model with this
package also has navigation.
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It has roof rails, it has satellite radio.
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And this one has 19 inch wheels too,
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which is not perfectly
ideal for off-roading.
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I think this is aimed a little bit more
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at people who wanna do
more of their driving
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in the city with occasional off-roading.
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One thing I was not expecting
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in a vehicle at this price
point is this parking feature.
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Let's say you find yourself
in a situation like this
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where you got this little
car and you want to fit it
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into that spot there.
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This Jeep has the
advanced technology group,
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which includes a really cool
feature called Park Assist,
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it practically parks itself.
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Let me show you how it works.
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Space found, keep moving forward.
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All right, I've got it in drive.
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All right, stop, remove hands from wheel.
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Here we go, let's see how this works.
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Hands are off, it's telling
me to move backwards.
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I got my hands on the brakes right now.
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Oh, lots of beeping.
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Lots of beeping, this is a tight spot.
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Let's see how it does,
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it's still telling me to move backwards.
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This is crazy, this is crazy.
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This is on a Jeep, this
is on a $28,000 Jeep.
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A little bit more.
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Okay, it's beeping at me.
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It's coming up to the truck behind me.
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It still says to keep moving
backwards, which I am.
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A lot of beeping, we're
getting close to things,
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telling me to keep moving backwards.
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Okay, stop, shift to drive.
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Okay, move forward.
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Move forward, move forward, move forward.
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All right, stop.
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Is that it?
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It's complete.
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All right, let's go take a look
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and see how it looks outside.
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All right, it's about three,
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I'd say about like five inches away
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in the front, in the rear.
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A couple of inches up front.
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I'd say that's pretty
successful at parking.
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Good job.
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Being an unabashed sky worshiper,
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I really need to sing the
praises of this double sunroof.
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It's $1,600 though.
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This is also got the Kenwood
Premium Audio Package for $745.
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Generally speaking, I don't like
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a lot of premium audio packages,
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but this is quite good because the cabin
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is big enough to utilize
all the speakers in here.
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This is gonna be pretty high components,
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it has pretty good base response.
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It's not the end of the
world in terms of base,
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but it is pretty good.
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And for $745, personally I would get this.
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I think it's pretty solid, and it's better
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than I've heard in a
lot of other vehicles.
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If you have any questions on this vehicle
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or you wanna chat with me,
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Instagram is the best place to reach me.
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It has a secondary
display on the dashboard.
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I think it's about seven inches
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and it displays things like your radio,
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your navigation, it's
completely configurable.
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And I like it, it works pretty well.
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It's bright, it's colorful.
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And it's just a nice display to have.
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So with all the options and features,
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this car is specked out to about $36,000,
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including a $1,500 dealer delivery fee,
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which seems kind of high.
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However, I'm sure you can
get vehicles like this
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at a bit of a discount,
especially considering
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the health situation
that we're in right now.
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Now let's go for a drive
and let's check it out
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on some paved roads where
you're probably gonna
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be doing most of your driving.
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So we're on the road with
this 1.3 liter four cylinder,
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it's a pretty small engine.
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Of course it's turbocharged,
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and it's amazing the amount of power
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that they can make out of these nowadays.
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This makes 177 horsepower and
210 pounds feet of torque.
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Now that's not a lot, and even though
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this is a relatively light vehicle,
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the engine still strains a little bit
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because it's just not that big.
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Now the torque does come on
fairly early which is nice,
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if you compare it to the base 2.4 liter,
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which was available in previous versions
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of the Renegade in previous years,
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and also in the base edition of sport,
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this does make more torque and it comes on
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at a lower RPM.
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So that's a positive thing.
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However, it's not a joyful engine
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and it's made it to this nine
speed automatic transmission.
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And while the transmission
itself is pretty good,
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it's pretty smooth.
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I don't really like the
programming and here's why,
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when you accelerate at
part throttle like this,
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maybe 50% throttle, it just
doesn't wanna kick down.
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And I find that kind of annoying,
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especially when you're in the city
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and you're in traffic and
you wanna pass somebody,
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there is a lag.
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It's not the best sounding
engine in the world either,
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but it does deliver
some okay fuel economy.
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The rating on this is 23
miles per gallon in the city,
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and I've been getting about 21 overall.
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On the freeway, that's supposed to get 29.
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I haven't been getting anywhere near 29,
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but I've been on it pretty hard.
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Now, if you've got a whole
bunch of people in here
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and some luggage, I don't think
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your fuel economy is
gonna be all that great.
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Let's try it from a dead stop
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and just see how exciting this really is.
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Oh man, that didn't really
knock my socks off too much.
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So it took to about 3,500 RPM before
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the engine really built up enough boost
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for the torque to kick
in from a dead stop.
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The one thing I do like
about the automatic
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is that it does not hunt for gears
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and it shifts very smoothly.
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There's some automatics
which are constantly hunting,
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so from that standpoint, it's quite good.
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Now the ride is quite good,
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it's quite smooth, it
absorbs bumps really well.
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It's really nice in the
city over imperfect roads,
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I think the ride quality is one
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of the plus sides of this vehicle.
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And I took it out in the mountains
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and even though this
is not a canyon culvert
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it's actually very little body roll
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in this compared to a
lot of other vehicles.
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It definitely seems to
handle corners pretty well.
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Oh my gosh, that is bright.
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Now, one of the advantages
of a smaller SUV
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or a CUV like this is
that it's quite light.
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This way, somewhere a
little over 3000 pounds,
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and that's pretty light for an SUV, a CUV.
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So that's got that going for it.
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And when you're going off road also,
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which we're gonna do in a minute,
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it's the ride is pretty decent there too
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although that's not really
anybody's biggest concern
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when you're going off road.
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Some of the highs of
this vehicle are clearly
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it's off-road capability.
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Even though this isn't Trail-Rated,
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it does very, very well on trails.
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It's gonna do very well
in inclement weather
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and in the mountains, places like that.
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Some of the high points of this vehicle
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are the amount of space that you get
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for the size of the
outside is pretty good,
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there's a lot of cabin space
for a few adults in there.
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If you're doing a lot
of stuff with luggage
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and you're going on longer trips,
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you probably want a
bigger vehicle than this.
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If you live in the winter
and winter climate,
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if you live in the mountains, if you live
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in something that's a
little bit more rugged
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and you're looking to do
some off-roading part time,
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I think this is an excellent choice.
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My name is Eric, there's a
couple of videos onscreen,
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I will see you in the next video.
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