Re: Tomb Raider Rubicon
 

*sigh* ...another one of you. AKA MX-PILOT, JEFFREY WHAT'S HIS NAME


Gerald G. McGeorge flamboyantly scribbled with a non-firm wrist:

> Frankly, there's getting to be a school of thought among veteran Jeepers
> that the Rubicon simply SUCKS, mostly due to its owners.

The only people I know that think that way, can't afford one. The
'veteran Jeepers' I know, don't dis anyone's rig. The guys you are
talking about are not Jeepers at all. More related to the donkey.

There must have
> been 500 of the things at Moab last year and eventually everyone avoided
> them like the plague. This months JP mag lists them among the 10 Jeeps they
> wouldn't own.

JP mag, the National Inquirer of four wheels drive rags. You go girl!


> Not that it's a bad rig out of the box, mind you, but Jeep FU'd the entire
> deal by pricing it so high that posers bought most of them, then the dealers
> screwed it up even further by ordering them loaded to the max with stupid
> options like power mirrors, A/C, etc., driving the price to $30k plus.
> That's right, $30k, and now I suppose you're going to take it out on the
> rocks? RIGHT!!!!!

How is it priced high, high like the Sahara? I paid $100 over invoice
back in Sept. '02. Oh, you mean you can't afford it, I see. Power
mirrors?? You know your Rubi's don't you?

> I tried pricing one last year with no options, no air, no power crap, no
> fancy stereo, not even a hard top. The dealer said he wouldn't order it even
> with a 20% deposit and tried BS'ing me about how it had to be configured or
> the order wouldn't be accepted by Chrysler. I walked.... In a few months
> there will be plenty of them on the used market, I figure most of 'em won't
> have even been on gravel yet.

TRANSLATION: I don't know how to buy a vehicle and the salesmen see me
coming. Watch me touch my toes. LOL!

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