{"id":1974,"date":"2020-07-10T09:28:54","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2020-07-10T09:28:54","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T13:28:54","slug":"jeep-aims-at-ranger-colorado-with-new-diesel-gladiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/2020\/07\/jeep-aims-at-ranger-colorado-with-new-diesel-gladiator\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeep aims at Ranger, Colorado with new diesel Gladiator"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Jeep Gladiator is a serious off-road pickup, providing fine towing capacity but only a short bed; length was sacrificed for off-road capability. Until now, though, there was no torque-monster engine, responsive from idle, to match the old 4-liter straight-six. What\u2019s more, those looking at Chevy Colorados, Toyota Tacomas, and Ford Rangers may have been put off by the poor 17\/22 mpg ratings.<\/p>\n

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Jeep Gladiator Mojave<\/p><\/div>\n

For 2021 Gladiators, though, the diesel engine will be optional on the Sport, Overland, and Rubicon; orders are already open. That provides a stunning 442 pound-feet of torque, which requires the TorqueFlite 8HP75 (made by ZF) eight-speed automatic; the tough transmission was calibrated for low-RPM shifts and off-road demands. The transmission has 40 shift maps.<\/p>\n

The diesel comes with third-gen Dana 44 axles, a 3.73:1 axle ratio, 2.72:1 low gear with Command-Trac and 4:1 low gear with Rock-Trac.<\/p>\n

Fuel economy is not yet available, but on the Jeep Wrangler, the diesel takes the V6 engine\u2019s 18 city, 22 highway and converts it to 22 city, 29 highway\u2014enough to beat any Colorado pickup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Jeep Gladiator is a serious off-road pickup, providing fine towing capacity but only a short bed; length was sacrificed for off-road capability. Until now, though, there was no torque-monster engine, responsive from idle, to match the old 4-liter straight-six. What\u2019s more, those looking at Chevy Colorados, Toyota Tacomas, and Ford Rangers may have been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Jeep-Gladiator_Mojave-2020-1280-0c.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}