Jeep Avenger Review: Is It REALLY Car Of The Year?
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- We’ve reviewed the new Jeep Avenger, a small, electric family car to rival the Peugeot E-2008 and Fiat 600e. Join us as Rory shows us the design, interior, exterior, boot space and assesses its performance.
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Missed the opportunity to name it EVenger😮
The Jeep wave, only applies to the Wrangler.
Was just going to write the same thing. Other cars in the Jeep line-up are just cars, they are not "Jeeps".
Well, with modern Jeeps anyway
Jeep wave applies to the cj not the wrangler
@@amass16
Too bad, most CJ were in junk yards now
Nah XJ
The brakes failed 4 times during the Carwow review 😂
They failed once,the fact they never abandoned the test and kept driving a dangerous car said more than enough,did he really expect a Brake Malfunction to miraculously fix itself if kept driving 🤔
@@alancobbin Many die due to single failure 😅... Jeep has always been unreliable and unsafe... Atleast land rovers are safe for such high rates of breakdown... Any accident in jeep and you're dead... 😂🤣😂
@@THUGPUTINI’m not disputing that,I wouldn’t keep a Jeep if I was given one.
Carwow video has been taken down 😱
They deleted that video before I got to see it
Good review. The car seems to me to be a perfect example of how to sell a cheaply built car for lot of money. (But aren’t they all the same these days..?) I’d personally rather buy a one or two year old high spec German car for the same money, but that’s just my opinion.
Never buy a jeep with their awful reliability
@@ishdeephora5077 Never buy a Jeep, a Peugeot or a Vauxhall.
Both a brand new Jeep and 1-2 yo German car are going to be about as reliable as each other.
Buy Japanese or Korean instead.
@@Gdsamplify It's not just the reliability, its the overall build quality is s**t with stelantis vehicles, I speak from experience.
@@ishdeephora5077 Im driving an 05 Jeep Cherokee/Libby and no issues
3:35 _"It offers enough room to store 2,443 rubber ducks. We'll take their word for it."_ I'm just imagining Rory at the shop finding rubber ducks for sale and calculating on his phone how much it would cost to check Jeep's claim, and his eyes going wide. _"We'll take their word for it."_
I'm not calculating a damn thing! I'm getting 2500 ducks and putting an honest day's work.
Of course not. It was made car of the year before it was built.
what a BS, all magazines drove every car
@@jjobar pre production press cars none on sale to customers. So all the cars that came after for the majority of 2023 were not in the running no matter how much better they are and there are plenty of them.
How on earth can a title be handed out at the beginning of the year?
Strange how we need electric memory seats these days. I have them but be honest I prefer manual. Faster to move
If you are sharing a car regularly with someone memory seats are ESSENTIAL. You don't get memory seats with manually adjustable poverty spec seats.
On my Tesla Model 3 each driver has a profile in the car that remembers everything from seat position, mirror and steering wheel position, safety settings, control customisations, preferred temperature and it recognises who gets in and adjusts everything for you when you get in. Given I am 6'3" and my wife is 5'5" it's amazingly convenient and I'm not sure how I will do without it if my next car doesn't do all that for me 😄
@@BrianW1612 my Porsche gt3 RS doesn't have memory seats get I'm in poverty 😔
@CPLAYZGAMEZ that's great but my point still stands.
@@BrianW1612 yup 👍 those darn Bugatti owners are in poverty
I've seen it IRL the other day, it looks like a weird cross between a Panda and a Jeep Renegade, so I guess this is the skeleton of the next Panda.
Its just a rejigged Fiat 600e exact same interior
You are a very generous man. You said so many nice things about a $12,000 vehicle being sold for $30,000
I’m surprised they still sell jeep here no way they’re profitable
I love the brand, I have a WK2 & a BU. I think this looks great. But the cheap plastics and lack of AWD is disappointing
It’s a No from me,for the same money I’d rather wait for the New Ford Explorer or spend a little more and get the new Tesla Model 3 👍😉💪
I can't believe the price. Tesla is 34K GBP drive away equivalent down here in aus. How can this be worth that much?
@@john_barnett In the UK the Model 3 starts at £43k, not £34k.
@@NickFoster Exactly, it's not worth that much.
@@john_barnettyou don’t pay for patrol that’s in itself pay for itself.
@@MrMannyhw what? i'm comparing it with other EVs. the price of *petrol* doesn't come into it.
Oh, come on! It is a Stellantis Group car, with all the inherent quality issues of those. Carwow Mat reviewed it and it had four (4!) failures! Every time a breaking system alarm! I got a 2007 Toyota Yaris, that has done 344.000 km and it got perfect breaks and no alarms! Ever! You got to be a car journalist to like a car like that. Even if I were in to EV's, what about the fact, that it competes directly in price with much better cars like Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV 6 and MG4, all with 7 year warranty. Actually, it is smaller than the Hyundai Kona or Kia e-Niro, which also are cheaper, got better warranty, got better battery packs, longer range and more power.
You lost me with MG4. A travesty that you would compare that with Ioniq 5 and EV6... I would get a Jeep Avenger over an MG4 any day of the week. And for the other two, they are significantly more expensive and not directly comparable to the Avenger.
Never buy a Hyundai or kia ev . They are unsafe as hell . A lot of Hyundai and Kia ev are called back for fire risk
I've been watching some chinese eletric cars reviews (BYD) and they seem to have more quality than this JEEP, specially on the interior....maybe this explains why they are trying to block them with more taxes.
Buy BYD if available. But in China there are people saying it going on fire by itself.
Does everyone use the same roads as Harry (Garage) and Number27?
The duck thing is amazing. My friend has a wrangler, we went camping in West Virginia, came out of the general store and there was a rubber duck sitting on his hood. The lady to started the foundation just happened to be there. Her son had passed from cancer so for the funeral, she asked people with Jeeps to come…amazingly, almost 200 Jeeps from across the US showed. Check it out. That’s why Jeepers ‘duck’.
Rory, I think it only applies to the Jeep Wranglers that will wave at each other. They think all other Jeep are posers. It's like the bikers that always wave to other bikers.
The American style x petrol cans are known as Jerry Cans.
Jerry was the "offensive name for the enemy ending with the sound y" that was adopted by the US for the Germans in WW2. (see also Charlie, Haji)
Jerry Cans were known as such because they were what the Germans had. As with most things German they had actual engineering in their design unlike allied cans which were mainly made of tin foil.
Dan Dun Dun Dun!
Rainbow star...
It reminds me of a mouse.
It was fine as a corsa alternative. If it started at 20k upto 30 then OK starting at 36...not a hope in hell
These car of the year awards *smell*. To me it sounds like a payola - "send our jurists on all-expenses paid jollies (and maybe something under the table) and in return we "award" you a title you can use to fool consumers into buying the car". The smell for 2023 was especially bad considering the Jeep didn't even go into mass production until late 2023 and yet won in January? And when it did turn up, people agreed it was a nice looking car, but unreliable and underwhelming.
From what I saw on Carwow it's crap.
The new Volvo EX30 is a similar starting price, is more modern, faster, safer, better equipped, charges faster and is just all round better quality. Struggling to see how the Jeep is in any way interesting or competitive, let alone car of the year.
I think it won because it’s a likeable car. There’s nothing inoffensive about it, it’s practical and well designed. Impractical, flawed or expensive cars win car of the year all of the time. Sometimes really dull stuff wins. I think this is a decent all rounder though the price is pretty steep. The EX30 and the Fisker Pear will blow this out of the water though. It has a head start before values go through the floor. I guess that’s the story with all of the current crop of EVs though. The tech is moving so fast.
9.6 seconds to 60 is pretty darn good. for an electric Jeep I bought a 1972 Alfa Romeo 2000 GTV Veloce with twin cams,sodium cooled valves,fuel injection and that was the 0-60 times,and in that day that was one of the fastest small cars available,so the Jeep is pretty fast.
because something was 'fast' 50 years ago doesn't mean it's fast now - 9.6 is painfully slow and north of 60mph would be horrific
@@chrishannibal5309 I feel like my old 2003 Tacoma use to to 60 in 7 seconds
My car dose 0 to 60 in about the same time, believe me it's pretty slow
9.6s for that price tag is slow. Same price on an ICE car would be much better than that.
Looks a bit cheap and nasty to my eyes and I would expect something like this to cost in the 25K region. Not sure about Avenger….. it looks a bit like an Alegro from the front 😂
a jeep the worlds best car how many back handers do they give these reviewers this will depreciate like a stone
I still have no idea why this car won the award
because they desperately need a selling point?
Because of envelopes under the table 😂
MG4 is 26k. is this 10k better..
It’s ONLY for Wranglers buddy, sorry 😊
I thought Willies were just the reals ones
Nah, pretty much any wrangler. It’s a HUGE deal here in the US. Lots of people take the doors off and drive them around all summer. Lots of cheap open air fun for a family
Many, many years ago when I used to drive my old Dads Reliant Robin, it was customary that if you saw another Reliant that you waved to them. To be fair I would say that 85% of drivers did actually wave back. I think this is mainly because a lot of three wheeler drivers were actually ex-motorcyclist, and traditionally most bikes wave at each other. Even to this day if I am out on the motorbike most other riders will either nod or wave to you.
The Jeep Avenger is a beautiful electric car. It should be exported to the USA.
it has been reviewed by carwow and since it’s given an atrocious result has been removed! never to find…
Agreed with you. Jeep is best of the best, I love. Another brands still having add their brand value by no mean reality but jeep another side.
Hey Rory @Autotrader, the main question is "Is it better than Peugeot e-2008?" e-2008 seems a slightly more premium design, better interiors and more practical, whats your take?
Jeep is a bit softer and has stronger parts used in the suspension, at least that’s what they told us 😂
*The reason I like cars like this is because they are higher. And when you are in a car that's high, you don't feel as much the distance.*
I wonder if there's a dopemine/ASMR effect for watching car review of cars you know you can't afford.
"Jeepers" usually only acknowledge each other in Wranglers in the states. Wranglers also have hidden animals on their vehicles, it's kind of cool.
A Jeep that’s not sold here in the States!?!
You don't want it 😂
Cos it's as usually just another uglyfied Fiat. Believe me, it's actually worse than actual Jeeps.
We do have it here in the states, it's called the jeep renegade, just isn't electric.
@@damienlee1165renegade is a completely different model
@@damienlee1165it’s not the same. Renegade is kinda ugly and it’s expensive
"The more time you spend with it, the more you like it..."
The same thing I think about my money
Most importantly, we now have a new word for the Dictionary... "Ensmallen!" Beautifully stated! I'm thinking, "Resmallen!" Maybe better!
Who here from GTA five update
Back seat is a depressing place to be. Cost cutting going crazy, with no rear centre armrest. 🤑
2023 CotY with 100kw max charging? Hardly pushing a boundary fo an award.
Wonderful review, as always !
Autotrader, amazing editing. The new style suits your channel with a combo of Rory's review. Autotrader, have a car like a Bugatti and do this editing style. You will gain a new fan base. Amzaing job editor.
I'll stick with my Enyaq thanks
Jeep waves should be simply for Wranglers only. Hello from across the pond in Toledo, Ohio, USA. 🇺🇸
Jeep drivers are always friendly. You see them happily chatting away in laybys as they await the breakdown recovery service 8-))...
So here are two acronyms for you ;-))...
Junk
Engineering
Executed
Poorly
_and_
Just
Expect
Excessive
Problems
This is one of the things that bugs me... 'Car of the year' awards AT THE BEGINNING/EARLY PART OF THE YEAR! It's just a marketing CON. It makesabsolutely NO sense for a cunsumers point of view. WHY NOT near the end of the year when they have all the new makes/models, even versions/level of trims, and vitally, some sense of reliabilty of cars that have been released during the year in question? I mean, heck, IF they had awarded this Jeep all these awards, and then found out that an engine component regularly 'Lunched' the motor, or another compnent necessitated the MASS RECALL of the car (be it safety or whatever) a number of months later? Well... Certainly an 'Egg on faces' moment eh? 😏.
You WOULDN'T give a crap tonne of awards to a movie say BEFORE it was released to the audiences would you? It could VERY WELL flop BIG STYLE (well, as is common these days).
To me, 'Car of the year' awards (and the magazines that give them), are just MORONIC, it's all just a scam and nothing more! I prefer to read reviews on what has been out at least a year to get the TRUE sense of what cars (or whatever I personally am looking to buy) to learn and understand WHAT EXACTLY IS... And ISN'T a good product with regards to build quality, reliability, and value... 🤔😏
😎🇬🇧
I really enjoyed the journalist. Reasonable opinion not positive or negative just as it is. I was in love with the avenger but now I doubt. I will look further. Maybe a duster!
I swear the Jeep wave is more for 'actual' jeeps like the Wrangler. In London, if i'm in the wrangler, other wrangler owners almost always wave
Jeep charokee Lil brother on silent mode😂😂
No one has mentioned the fact that it looks to be a Compass - in styling and spec.. just with a few tweaks
very good review and pretty much the same thoughts about the Jeep as I had after driving it twice. It is far too expensive for its size, top spec should be at least 5000 €’s cheaper, especially when compared to the Chinese opposition. Top marks though for the Italian design and French engine technology. I just hope the heat pump works well here in Finland, at the moment you can’t preheat for charging stops, something that is urgently needed in an update when driving in minus 20C conditions!
We are witnessing a huge marketing effort to help a esential corporate product appeal as much people as possible when its clearly a lemon.
I own an euro spec avenger, the glovebox manual pouch issue is due to uk spec ones having the fuse box in the same place and stealing space. The seat levers issue can be mitigated with the leather seats, since those come with electric controls. I don't share the gutless engine feel, it's more than enough in real life(even in the power limited normal mode)
Ive been waiting 2 years for parts for my 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee that unlocks the steering wheel so the car can drive, Jeep cannot provide me the parts, they have told me that manufacturing stopped during COVID and has never started back up, they held $2000 in cash for 15 months until I finally demanded it back as they couldn’t get the part. A contractor working on my house has a brand new 2023 model thats 6 months old and its been sitting in Jeep waiting for parts for 6 weeks whilst he drives a loan car, they told him not to put my KM on it 😳. The circus around the Carwow video and the cover up to hide this should be a warning to anyone considering a car from Jeep or the larger Stellantis group and any of their brands to avoid all of them, you don’t need to be a genius to recognise a sinking ship
The movement of the interior has immediately put me off.
Most Jeep Wrangler drivers wouldn’t acknowledge any other type of Jeep as legitimate
Great review! This was very helpful and crystal clear explanation!
I've only experienced the jeep wave in a wrangler or gladiator. Not other normal jeeps
Great video (as usual), less great unreliable car 😅
Thats the same road that the old geeza Harry's garage uses. Cotswolds yh?? Rory is living.
0:10 buddy that has to be a real Jeep as in a Wrangler, not an Italian econobox
Car of the year is meaningless award , every single magazine is giving out car of the year awards. It's a another bad Stellantis product that you should stay away from
Mat from carwow gave it a "shortlist" despite the fact it broke down 4 times during the review and he clearly hated it... wonder how much jeep paid him? The video was taken down shortly after. wonder why?
The car looks horrifically cheap and Jeep are one of the most unreliable brands out there.
Ensmallen the aperture.... bravo! 👏👏👏.
Saw it in person last week at car show. As a Renegade owner, I was totally underwhelmed
Ensmallen, it's a perfectly cromulent word 😆
Hmm, I have £36k to spend on a new electric car. Which should I go for, the Jeep Avenger or the MG4 X-Power. Tough decision 😅
Neither!
@@MrMannyhw I don't imagine you would buy an electric car of any description..
@@jeremyradford5103 most likely would get Tesla 3 or Polestar 2. :)
@MrMannyhw Great cars but considerably more expensive. I love my Model 3 and wouldn't change it for the world, but it was £50k new and more than many can afford.
Looks kinda cool but can’t really see that it offers much that the new Dacia Duster doesn’t for over £10k less
Are other CZcams channels allowed to film on Harry’s ‘favourite bit of road’ !?! 😂
Great review. We need this cute Jeep on the other side of the Atlantic ie: Canada!
Awards bought buy the manufacturer
You would have to a complete idiot to buy a Jeep product in Europe. I say this as someone who is on their 12th Jeep. Since I have moved back to Europe, I was completely shocked how badly Jeep treats their customers. The dealer network is a special kind of hell. They do whatever they can to deny warranty claims. I had this situation several times on a Wrangler with 12k kms on the clock.
DO NOT BUY A JEEP IF YOU LIVE IN EUROPE.
I find myself in Eco mode in Stellantis cars 😊. You still get the full power when you floor it in that mode
I like the looks, outside and inside. Though the transmission tunnel and overly narrow middle rear seat, make it a 4-seater, for a couple with young children. Wonder what the EuroNCAP rating will be… will it roll in the off-set?
Easy to watch, this guy
Cheers
Not trying to offend anyone but honestly haven’t been able to understand why some ppl love Jeep, clearly from this video it doesn’t look very comfortable for the passengers, and Mercedes def win the interior awards.
Isn't this the car Mat Watson tested for carwow and it broke down on him 3 times. Then a day later the video for the car was taken of the channel 🤔
The Jeep wave is for actual Jeeps like Willy’s, CJ2, 3, 5, 7, Wranglers, Gladiators - that sort of Jeep. All other Jeeps are basically marketing.
I am enjoying your videos more than Netflix
I had jeep renagade trailhawk when they came out in 2015 loved it bit loads problems it locked all its doors took dealer three months to fix
Isn't Harry mad you stole his playground ? 😄
I think we can all thank stellantis for this. I drivena couple of Renegades from FCA times, whi then were cheapest Jeeps, and built quality was way better.
When natural calamities hit, and the power grid falls apart, it's the internal combustion engine that's going to work.
Of course not. Those "titles" are being bought. Is a known practice already.
There's nothing car of the year about this cross-dressing Fiat.
Is a tiny lifted hatchback with a stupid high price.
This is not a Jeep, (a fun serious offroader), but a vehicle for the metrosexual libertarian minds, the poosers.
It's a small hatchback sold for the price of a premium sport sedan with double it's power and great performance. (tesla model 3).
This cross-dressing Fiat would be ok if the price were right, aka 30.000 eur for the top trim, based on what it offers
It's gonna be in the shop every 10k miles.
So it's extremely environmentally friendly then!
I like this car
And "the old american" petrol cans, usually called "Gerry Cans", were copies of the German WW2 petrol cans, hence the name Gerry Can!
It's a Peugeot 2008 with different body and trim parts...
The car of the year is Toyota Corolla hybrid estate 2lt version for me. All you need from a car.
Economy, space, sportiness, reliability what else you need??
The Jeep wave is for Wranglers, CJ’s etc.. real off road Jeeps!
Might as well go all the way and get a Citroen Ami - for £36K, they can go 🦆 themselves!
Rory Reid is a rock star but that Jeep is minging. And Oxfordshire County Council should be charging rent one the use of 'Harry's Corner'.
Don't expect to get many, if any, rubber ducks or waves in this vehicle, or most Jeeps for that matter. Those are nearly always reserved for "real" Jeeps, the ones with straight axles, 4-wheel drive, and removable roof and doors. Think Willys models, CJs, DJs, Wranglers, and Gladiators. You don't see Cherokees, Wagoneers, Compasses, or Renegades getting those, and the Avenger is even less Jeep-like.
10:00 does this means it remembers its latest setting and doesnt fall back to a standard mode? Thats cool and not always a given I remember from other reviews in the past of cars that reverted back to a standard setting everytime you restarted the car…
Jeep and Car of the year 😂
I’m guessing it’s about £12k on the road yeah ?
The thing about plastic is it lasts forever on car interiors, as the Japanese have proved since the late 80s. It all wears well and is hardy and sturdy compared to soft touch alternatives. So, while the car is built to a price I bet these will be like roaches in 20 years assuming batteries can be replaced.
Yeah they definitely built this thing with longevity in mind lol
I’m a fan of this car but the price is ridiculous for a small car with 4 year old electric car tech. It’s going to get destroyed by the Volvo ex30 and the Fisker pear when they arrive. Both will be the same money but years ahead in terms of tech and design. It’s a pity. Stellantis could’ve done a Dacia and sold off the old tech at a knock down price. Personally I don’t get what the premium price gets you. Better residuals?
The interior of the Jeep avenger feels like a budget car with a premium price.
Seriously, not only Jeep but the american car brands keep getting worse. Think about Chrysler, Chevrolet, Jeep.... the exception for now might be ford that still makes a competitive cars.
The Jeep wave is only done by Wrangler owners! Not just any other Jeep!😂