Not as familiar with AR, but SW MO has a lot of options. There is SMORR if looking for a park, and a lot of gravel county roads if looking for something nontechnical in more of an over landing type experience such as the Glade Top TrailAnyone know much about trails in Arkansas? Looks like there are a lot of them. Might be a fun destination to explore?
Not as familiar with AR, but SW MO has a lot of options. There is SMORR if looking for a park, and a lot of gravel county roads if looking for something nontechnical in more of an over landing type experience such as the Glade Top Trail
Spent a lot of time on those trails as a teenager..... where Dad introduced me to the ability to drive a stick shift.....Given the altitude of the Ouray/Telluride/Silverton area you could have a bunch of snow to deal with in late March.
Bad ass looking GladiatorWith this new format I can now post pictures. This is the Jeep Gladiator I bought new in July of 2019. I still love this Jeep.
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I drove one for a long weekend when they did a Uconnect update program on my JL. It was fantastic. I'd go for the Rubicon, though, for the sway bar disconnect and front locker, but the Mojave is great, too. If you plan to lift, though, I think the Rubicon has better value since the main feature of the Mojave is the shocks. (Plus rear locker.)Ok folks, its time for another addition to the family. Really looking hard at the Gladiator Mojave edition. What kind of real world reviews are we looking at here?
I thought I read where someone here drove one for awhile. Thanks for the reply, that was a consideration I hadn't thought about.I drove one for a long weekend when they did a recall program on my JL. It was fantastic. I'd go for the Rubicon, though, for the sway bar disconnect and front locker, but the Mojave is great, too. If you plan to lift, though, I think the Rubicon has better value since the main feature of the Mojave is the shocks. (Plus rear locker.)
Valid points but the Mojave is 1” taller stock than the Rubicon stock which is 1” taller than a Sport S stock Meaning the Mojave is 2” taller from the factory than mine was. All I would do is add 35s to a Mojave and love the ride. Talked to a kid at the dunes last year with a Mojave and he said it was so smooth. I know a LOT of the added cost to the Mojave is the tuned suspension. If I was going to trade and I could afford a Mojave there would be question that’s the route I would go. Check out www.jeepgladiatorforum.com for all kinds of info if you want first hand owner review.I drove one for a long weekend when they did a Uconnect update program on my JL. It was fantastic. I'd go for the Rubicon, though, for the sway bar disconnect and front locker, but the Mojave is great, too. If you plan to lift, though, I think the Rubicon has better value since the main feature of the Mojave is the shocks. (Plus rear locker.)
Valid points but the Mojave is 1” taller stock than the Rubicon stock which is 1” taller than a Sport S stock Meaning the Mojave is 2” taller from the factory than mine was. All I would do is add 35s to a Mojave and love the ride. Talked to a kid at the dunes last year with a Mojave and he said it was so smooth. I know a LOT of the added cost to the Mojave is the tuned suspension. If I was going to trade and I could afford a Mojave there would be question that’s the route I would go. Check out www.jeepgladiatorforum.com for all kinds of info if you want first hand owner review.
I don’t disagree with you on your points except the 1” higher Mojave. both are great options and the Gladiator in general is bad ass. I don’t do a lot of rock crawling and really only hit the dunes a few times a year so either would work for me but I just dig the Mojave. I’m just on a Sport S budget. LOLThere is no height difference. The one I drove was parked right next to a Rubi, which is the one my brother wound up buying. The stance and height were exactly the same, as were the tires. (33" Wildpeak MT's) Both can run 35's with no lift, but if you go off road and flex, you'll have some rubbing. In normal driving you won't. You'll have more rubbing with the Rubicon when the sway bar is disconnected.
I highly recommend the Mopar lift if you want to run 35's. And that would again steer me toward the Rubicon because you'd lose the reservior shocks on the Mojave.
The only way I'd go Mojave is if I were planning on doing high speed desert running. Anything wide open where you might go at speed here east of the Mississippi the Rubicon will do as well as the Mojave. You'd have to get out to the wide open spaces of the west to take advantage of it.
Keep in mind the pricing on the two is the same. I just think you get more capability with the Rubicon and it is a better fit for the type of off roading you'd be likely to encounter.
We just got back from Moab with my brother's Gladiator Rubicon. He's got the Mopar lift and 35's and it was an animal out there. All it did was convince me even more that the Rubi is the way to go. We did a few trails where we got a little speed and the Fox shocks on it handled it beautifully. My JL's Mopar lift and Fox shocks did well, too, with no overheating. In fact, both the JL and JT's Fox shocks stayed cool to the touch when some of the other guys' Pro Comp and Rough Country monotube shocks got hot to the touch.
Not dissing the Mojave, because it is amazing, too, if you are going to run in the element it is meant for. Don't get me wrong, it will be outstanding in any off-roading. But that sway bar disco and front locker give that extra 10-15% to the Rubi. The Mojave will certainly trounce the Toyota Taco TRD Pro, though. It can't keep 4 on the ground like the Gladiator, even without the sway bar disco. We saw one in Moab that struggled mightily over things the Gladiator did without breaking a sweat, time and again.
Either way, you'll be thrilled. The Gladiator is the King Kong of hill climbers, for sure, in either form!
One thing I REALLY loved about the Mojave I drove was the Sting Gray color with orange trim. It was pure badass, especially with the wheels it had.