Episode 1024 – Jeep Owner, Want $5k?
Rivian Will PAY you to buy if you are a Jeep owner!
It wasn’t very long ago that we reported that Ford was bribing Jeep owners to buy a Bronco. If it was a late 60’s or even the OJ Bronco I might have been interested.
Now it’s Rivian’s turn. I’ve been hearing troubling news about Rivian, which may just be the EV market as a whole, but I’d be concerned about buying one right now. I guess that’s why they’re offering up to $5000 off the purchase.
BMW and Toyota owners are the other two manufactures that are part of this offer.
Jeep Laying Off Workers
The company wouldn’t give details of when the indefinite layoffs would start or state specific reasons for them, but the trade publication Automotive News reported Monday that Stellantis had laid off 199 full-time workers at its Ram pickup truck factory in Sterling Heights, Michigan, north of Detroit.
Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares has said his company has to work on cutting costs globally in order to keep electric vehicles affordable for the middle class. Electric vehicles, he has said, cost about 40% more than those powered by gasoline. Without cost reductions, EVs will be too expensive for the middle class, shrinking the market and driving costs up more, Tavares has said.
Stellantis reported that its vehicle sales were down nearly 10% from January through March compared with a year earlier.
Email from Listener
Tony
Man did I just lose any type of respect for you
Did you know Matt is a Texas native?
Do you know where Matt does most of his off roading? It’s at Windrock off road park, It’s in the Cumberland Mountains, MOUNTAIN!!! He spends most of his time on trails on the mountain.
Calling the Jeep he was driving “modified” is really overstating a mild lift and 37’s with some different bumpers. Oh, and that is his wife’s Jeep.
When you watched the video and seen the landslide (yes it’s a landslide, it’s a small one but it is a landslide) did you notice the running water that was going under it? Or how water was running down the side of the mountain on to the land slide?
And to say it didn’t look like it had a drop off on the side, you forgot about the part of the video you watched before they looked at the landslide where you can see tops of trees through the drivers window? Tops of the trees and I don’t think they were 5′ tall trees either.
So, you that has a whooping 4 off road trips under your belt know more about what can be done with a Jeep/off road vehicle than a guy who has over 13 years of off road experience does? Plus the fact the other guy in the video who does some extreme wheeling said that they shouldn’t go over it gets trumped by your experience?
And saying that you’re not saying anything bad against Matt’s decision when everyone can tell that you are not sincere when you say that.
Get some trail time under your belt, put away the ducks, and try something besides a blue or 2 rated trails before you shoot your mouth off. Yeah, yeah, you went to Moab, Moab where the rock is like adding pimp juice (tire traction compound) at the dragstrip. Go to Windrock and try a few of the trails or anywhere on the East side of the USA and experience something taller than the parking brick at your favorite mall. Don’t take the bypass and actual do something
Why don’t you get Matt to do an interview with you? He really is a nice guy and most call him the Mister Rogers of off roading. But you’ll probably screw up the interview by stating wrong things about his channel like you did with Matt’s off road recovery, man that was embarrassing listening to it.
Jeep Talk Show Gladiator Update
Jeep Talk Show team member, Chris, recently purchased a 2020 Jeep Gladiator. If he puts the 4’x4’ Jeep Talk Show logo on it, we’ll start calling it the 2020 Jeep Talk Show Gladiator, but I digress…
He has factory tires and he desperately wants to get something bigger, 33” or 35” AT or MT. Counting his pennies, like we all do, he’s trying to see how much it’s going to cost him. Wheels and tires.
The 2021 Jeep Talk Show Gladiator came with aluminum 7.5” x 17” wheels, black. I was tooling around YouTube and I found a video from the TFL people. They had a 2020 Gladiator that they were building, I believe it was a Sport S like mine.
They decided to use the same wheel as the spare tire used on the gladiator. They bought 4 of them and mounted 35×12.5×17 tires on them. No rub lock to lock.
This is what I did on mine. I am still running the factory aluminum wheels with the 35’s mounted to them.
No issues. Several trips to Hidden Falls Adventure Park and two trips to Moab. UT.
I don’t need a reason to spend money on my Jeep, but sometimes it’s nice to know that you don’t have to.
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