Nice car and nice pictures.
But this is USA. How many true offroaders can wheel well with a manual car? Very few. So, this will not sell that much. People want and prefer automatic offroad.
Also, I think the price is quite high. @15,400 for a base model that clearly needs upgrades like a windshield and other things, I think it seems overpriced! Also, the top of the line limited edition rolling out at $18,400 means a drive out price of almost $20,000 or more. That is the cost of a well kitted used Landcruiser, 4Runner, Jeep and tons of other very capable street legal 4x4s.
Wow. For such a car with manual transmission and such high cost, it may not sell so well.
If some rich people buy it, many of their kids would not be able to even enjoy it because it is manual. Remember many more car manufacturers are even fading away the manual gear box for fully automatic. Also, it is even argued these days that automatic transmissions seem to perform the same or even better than manual transmissions. So, I can see the sales of this will suffer. Except people want to buy it and store it.
This is the American market. I do not know any side by side car in this market that is manual. Let alone manual offroader. Very few Americans can feel happy taking a manual for some true hardcore offroading with this Jeep looking side by side.
Let's wait and see when they start rolling in the ones with automatic gear boxes or will they remain only manual? Maybe their next year model will come in auto.
