2013 Jeep Wrangler first drive

The sun picked a nice spot in the sky to shoot its fearsome rays down on us. It’s a hot Texan day at the Inks Ranch, a day that demands you sit indoors with a cool beer and bare minimum clothing. It’s most certainly not a day for being out in the sun and on any other place on the planet I would have had a raging headache in this heat. Not today. My head feels clear and physically my body could not be enjoying an off-road adventure in the heat this much. This clarity though has little to do with me being physically fit enough for the task at hand and more to do with driving the Wrangler. This is, without a doubt, one of the finest off-road vehicles I have ever driven, and I have driven more 4x4s than you could name. It entirely fulfils both parts of the off-road equation, its ability to go everywhere should be equal to the comfort and stress free experience it provides in stressful terrain. It’s no wonder the Wrangler has earned the reputation of being one of the finest off-road vehicles in the world.

Driving the Wrangler was one of the primary incentives for travelling to the United States for the first time in my life. The 22 hour journey to the land of the brave otherwise held little attraction to me. Fortunately this trip to the new world turned out to be truly memorable. I drove across soft sandy river beds, climbed up rocky hills, descended into gorges and did everything you’d see in those startling YouTube videos without even breaking out a crease on my shirt, all thanks to the Wrangler.