WATCH: Jeep Gladiator puts up a fight like no other bakkie | The Citizen

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Seven-slot grille marque's first bakkie in 30 years officially South Africa's most expensive, but also one of the most capable.

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In typical Jeep fashion, both roofs can be removed and the bolts stored in a dedicated storage area underneath the flip-up rear seats.The same applies to the doors, which can be detached completely and even carried in the removal process thanks to what Jeep calls Lift-Assist handles under each armrest.

If still not impressive enough, the “most capable Jeep ever made” boasts a heavy-duty tow bar standard, a hard-top tonneau cover, covered external power sources and a rubberised loadbin.For South Africa though, Jeep has revised the Gladiator’s payload from the maximum 725 kg in the United States to 693 kg, but kept the towing capacity for a braked trailer unchanged at 2 721 kg. This also applies to the 800 mm wading depth.

Not so the wind and road noise thanks to not only the soft-top roof, but also the 32-inch BF Goodrich all-terrain tyres wrapped around the 17-inch alloy wheels. Aside from the vagueness making sense, the combination of the solid axles and coil springs lends the Gladiator a pleasant ride off-road and a sense of “it belongs here”.Once at Hennops, the Gladiator’s true talents showed as the series of axle twisters, water crossings and the route itself failed to deter it from bottoming out or getting stuck.

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