10 Things You Should Know About the 2010 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited
#6. Frankly, only so much can be done with 202 horses and two tons.
Our 2010 Wrangler Unlimited Rubicon test vehicle weighed in at more
than 4,300 pounds. That's a lot of Jeep to haul around with only 202
horses and 237 lb.-ft. of torque. Thankfully, we had the six-speed
manual gearbox that allowed us to get the most out of every gear, which
was especially helpful when building speed to merge onto highways.
Crank the rpm and the tach needle out of its lumbering comfort zone,
and the V6 voices its unrefined displeasure, but the job gets done.
Around town, there are no issues in terms of power, though an occasion
of extreme stop-and-go traffic had us wishing for less resistance from
the clutch pedal. For its part, the six-speed tranny was, like the
Rubicon's handling, imprecise, which is likely fine by those genuinely
interested in this Wrangler and what it's been built to do.