Jeep Avenger Review: Is It REALLY Car Of The Year?

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8 ай бұрын

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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@Tiger_Woo_dds 8 ай бұрын

Missed the opportunity to name it EVenger😮

@Mike.W.Dasher 8 ай бұрын

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."_

@josephlevine3045 Ай бұрын

I'm not calculating a damn thing! I'm getting 2500 ducks and putting an honest day's work.

@People-Business-And-Ideas 8 ай бұрын

The Jeep wave, only applies to the Wrangler.

@pablomax9376 8 ай бұрын

Was just going to write the same thing. Other cars in the Jeep line-up are just cars, they are not "Jeeps".

@safetysandals 8 ай бұрын

Well, with modern Jeeps anyway

@amass16 6 ай бұрын

Jeep wave applies to the cj not the wrangler

@DZ-cm5xw 4 ай бұрын

@@amass16 Too bad, most CJ were in junk yards now

@Mebbwebb 3 ай бұрын

Nah XJ

@countryside_guy 8 ай бұрын

The brakes failed 4 times during the Carwow review 😂

@alancobbin 8 ай бұрын

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 🤔

@THUGPUTIN 8 ай бұрын

@@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... 😂🤣😂

@alancobbin 8 ай бұрын

@@THUGPUTINI’m not disputing that,I wouldn’t keep a Jeep if I was given one.

@edithwhitebrownhall 8 ай бұрын

Carwow video has been taken down 😱

@yissibiiyte 8 ай бұрын

They deleted that video before I got to see it

@timothyshanks6799 8 ай бұрын

Strange how we need electric memory seats these days. I have them but be honest I prefer manual. Faster to move

@BrianW1612 8 ай бұрын

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.

@NickFoster 8 ай бұрын

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 😄

@garrycroft4215 8 ай бұрын

Of course not. It was made car of the year before it was built.

@jjobar 8 ай бұрын

what a BS, all magazines drove every car

@garrycroft4215 8 ай бұрын

@@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?

@MrBiggles 8 ай бұрын

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.

@ishdeephora5077 8 ай бұрын

Never buy a jeep with their awful reliability

@redline589 8 ай бұрын

@@ishdeephora5077 Never buy a Jeep, a Peugeot or a Vauxhall.

@Gdsamplify 7 ай бұрын

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.

@redline589 7 ай бұрын

@@Gdsamplify It's not just the reliability, its the overall build quality is s**t with stelantis vehicles, I speak from experience.

@user-zx6wz9uc9s 6 ай бұрын

@@ishdeephora5077 Im driving an 05 Jeep Cherokee/Libby and no issues

@sniperzero8 8 ай бұрын

Great review! This was very helpful and crystal clear explanation!

@1corinthians15.1-4kjv 8 ай бұрын

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.

@1984kron 8 ай бұрын

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.

@user-jf7qv7fw7e Ай бұрын

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

@zakirhussain6667 8 ай бұрын

Wonderful review, as always !

@angrymuffinsb 8 ай бұрын

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

@AlexTenThousand 8 ай бұрын

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.

@MOSSFEEN 8 ай бұрын

Its just a rejigged Fiat 600e exact same interior

@bjmullan 8 ай бұрын

Does everyone use the same roads as Harry (Garage) and Number27?

@gaijinbaka 8 ай бұрын

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’.

@busmen5021 8 ай бұрын

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.

@pennysmurf 8 ай бұрын

You are a very generous man. You said so many nice things about a $12,000 vehicle being sold for $30,000

@michaeljohnson-li5nn 6 ай бұрын

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.

@Account1746 8 ай бұрын

I’m surprised they still sell jeep here no way they’re profitable

@dcvariousvids8082 8 ай бұрын

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?

@briantoner5247 8 ай бұрын

Did they slightly maybe by a factor of 1% or so change the font of ”avenger” on the doors? (since the last vid of the Avenger you did) ?

@nicklov1 7 ай бұрын

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!

@lgbman 8 ай бұрын

Great review. We need this cute Jeep on the other side of the Atlantic ie: Canada!

@user-pc3qc4xp5d Ай бұрын

This was a bloody good review!!!!

@NyxGoblin 7 ай бұрын

Great car review mate.

@charlieverity5405 6 ай бұрын

Easy to watch, this guy Cheers

@sherazsidhu4729 8 ай бұрын

I am enjoying your videos more than Netflix

@jwvandegronden 8 ай бұрын

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…

@Sherukka 7 ай бұрын

I find myself in Eco mode in Stellantis cars 😊. You still get the full power when you floor it in that mode

@Wrangler4XEFans 5 ай бұрын

In the U.S., the Jeep Wave is just a Wrangler thing. Is it different in Europe?

@charlesclement383 8 ай бұрын

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.

@chrishannibal5309 8 ай бұрын

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

@brooklyn560 8 ай бұрын

@@chrishannibal5309 I feel like my old 2003 Tacoma use to to 60 in 7 seconds

@robincurston7086 6 ай бұрын

My car dose 0 to 60 in about the same time, believe me it's pretty slow

@bernardshum2719 4 ай бұрын

9.6s for that price tag is slow. Same price on an ICE car would be much better than that.

@s.venkateswarpatnaik2484 8 ай бұрын

Nice review

@garywoods765 7 ай бұрын

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

@Elaba_ 7 ай бұрын

After how many miles most parts have been replaced?

@KARIM_HAMZA 8 ай бұрын

*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.*

@thekeytoairpower 8 ай бұрын

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...

@Elaba_ 7 ай бұрын

It reminds me of a mouse.

@frankblack0503 8 ай бұрын

Great video (as usual), less great unreliable car 😅

@maestro8766 8 ай бұрын

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?

@Sherukka 7 ай бұрын

Jeep is a bit softer and has stronger parts used in the suspension, at least that’s what they told us 😂

@TheMILVSCR 8 ай бұрын

"Jeepers" usually only acknowledge each other in Wranglers in the states. Wranglers also have hidden animals on their vehicles, it's kind of cool.

@lloydmillership9682 8 ай бұрын

a jeep the worlds best car how many back handers do they give these reviewers this will depreciate like a stone

@timothyshanks6799 8 ай бұрын

It was fine as a corsa alternative. If it started at 20k upto 30 then OK starting at 36...not a hope in hell

@shawkat1649 8 ай бұрын

MG4 is 26k. is this 10k better..

@user-in3ry2lh4r 8 ай бұрын

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.

@jeffreysteijn9324 8 ай бұрын

I've only experienced the jeep wave in a wrangler or gladiator. Not other normal jeeps

@Iluvrocket 3 ай бұрын

Do European cars not normally make a ticking noise when the turn signal’s activated??

@Eric-qi9us 8 ай бұрын

I still have no idea why this car won the award

@victorcandia 8 ай бұрын

because they desperately need a selling point?

@motorbikemumblings 8 ай бұрын

Because of envelopes under the table 😂

@thousandstar 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if there's a dopemine/ASMR effect for watching car review of cars you know you can't afford.

@mawakangudlewaras3153 4 ай бұрын

Very nice

@williamwill182 8 ай бұрын

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.

@MrMannyhw 8 ай бұрын

Buy BYD if available. But in China there are people saying it going on fire by itself.

@AdyWalter 8 ай бұрын

They have also confirmed a petrol engine version for the UK market, think I would have that. Looks great though

@Dreadpirateflappy 8 ай бұрын

broke down 4 times in the carwow review.

@woofbark4475 8 ай бұрын

Most importantly, we now have a new word for the Dictionary... "Ensmallen!" Beautifully stated! I'm thinking, "Resmallen!" Maybe better!

@DroneStrike1776 8 ай бұрын

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.

@urbanstrencan 8 ай бұрын

Rory when will we see the 🤩i20N Performance review ;)

@menaseven9093 8 ай бұрын

The Jeep Avenger is a beautiful electric car. It should be exported to the USA.

@Jornadaem4Rodas 3 ай бұрын

Será bem vindo no Brasil!

@_Rafiki. 8 ай бұрын

I live in London and have yet to see one of these on the road

@lordbrennanofsealand5772 8 ай бұрын

A pre production model?

@pennysmurf 8 ай бұрын

"The more time you spend with it, the more you like it..." The same thing I think about my money

@MatteoSaitta 8 ай бұрын

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)

@lumpyize 8 ай бұрын

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.

@matthewsalmon8194 8 ай бұрын

No one has mentioned the fact that it looks to be a Compass - in styling and spec.. just with a few tweaks

@Alex-hr2df 8 ай бұрын

So if I'm between this, Smart #1, and Volvo EX30, which one is better?

@JonoConstantini 8 ай бұрын

I‘ve been sitting in a Fiat 600e recently - basically a two-seater as opposed to the Smart #1, which is more comparable to a VW ID3 in terms of interior space. The Smart is - and I guess the EX30 will be - a pretty decent offering overall.

@paulmilsom1346 8 ай бұрын

I'll stick with my Enyaq thanks

@Petelmrg 8 ай бұрын

2023 CotY with 100kw max charging? Hardly pushing a boundary fo an award.

@csmithreal 8 ай бұрын

Jeep waves should be simply for Wranglers only. Hello from across the pond in Toledo, Ohio, USA. 🇺🇸

@Batman00785 8 ай бұрын

I like this car

@AnweshAdhikari 8 ай бұрын

Didn't know this existed!

@yungsagegaming8577 8 ай бұрын

A Jeep that’s not sold here in the States!?!

@countryside_guy 8 ай бұрын

You don't want it 😂

@cedriccottage2070 8 ай бұрын

Cos it's as usually just another uglyfied Fiat. Believe me, it's actually worse than actual Jeeps.

@damienlee1165 8 ай бұрын

We do have it here in the states, it's called the jeep renegade, just isn't electric.

@joetz1 8 ай бұрын

@@damienlee1165renegade is a completely different model

@MrMannyhw 8 ай бұрын

@@damienlee1165it’s not the same. Renegade is kinda ugly and it’s expensive

@countryside_guy 8 ай бұрын

From what I saw on Carwow it's crap.

@Martyboy_Glasgow 8 ай бұрын

Ensmallen the aperture.... bravo! 👏👏👏. Saw it in person last week at car show. As a Renegade owner, I was totally underwhelmed

@NickFoster 8 ай бұрын

Ensmallen, it's a perfectly cromulent word 😆

@WorldwideHypercars 8 ай бұрын

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

@777VIV 8 ай бұрын

Thats the same road that the old geeza Harry's garage uses. Cotswolds yh?? Rory is living.

@wilsonc4027 8 ай бұрын

Are other KZfaq channels allowed to film on Harry’s ‘favourite bit of road’ !?! 😂

@mrkptr5761 8 ай бұрын

Got their money out of that B roll shot!

@YoshinyYo 8 ай бұрын

which Year?

@Pajaa37 8 ай бұрын

it has been reviewed by carwow and since it’s given an atrocious result has been removed! never to find…

@marcopeel 5 ай бұрын

I have only seen the wave in a Landrover

@lbco5229 7 ай бұрын

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.

@alancobbin 8 ай бұрын

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 👍😉💪

@john_barnett 8 ай бұрын

I can't believe the price. Tesla is 34K GBP drive away equivalent down here in aus. How can this be worth that much?

@NickFoster 8 ай бұрын

@@john_barnett In the UK the Model 3 starts at £43k, not £34k.

@john_barnett 8 ай бұрын

@@NickFoster Exactly, it's not worth that much.

@MrMannyhw 8 ай бұрын

@@john_barnettyou don’t pay for patrol that’s in itself pay for itself.

@john_barnett 8 ай бұрын

@@MrMannyhw what? i'm comparing it with other EVs. the price of *petrol* doesn't come into it.

@victorcandia 8 ай бұрын

We are witnessing a huge marketing effort to help a esential corporate product appeal as much people as possible when its clearly a lemon.

@dkq986 8 ай бұрын

Now I can modify my Dacia Duster into this!!

@SimonOldfield-es4ev 8 ай бұрын

What’s with so many car reviewers using roads around Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire? Here is Rory using the road from Charlbury to Burford, through the Wychwood Forest, the same one Harry Metcalf uses for his reviews and Matt Watson generally uses the roads around Deddington and out towards Enstone, just a few miles to the East. Could it be that they all live in the area (Harry certainly does), or are they members of Soho Farmhouse at Great Tew? Or is it the Clarkson Farm tractor beam, sucking them into the area around Jeremy’s gaff at Chadlington? Curious.

@AutoTraderTV 8 ай бұрын

The UK press launch of this car happened took place in that area, so most of us went to a location to pick the car up.

@SimonOldfield-es4ev 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I recognised the road the film was made on, as I live in the area and use it regularly. It just amused me that lots of road tests seem to take place in the proximity of Diddly Squat farm.

@nickgee7291 8 ай бұрын

the jeep wave is for wranglers. atleast in the tj days and before. not sure if it still is!

@brycem0 8 ай бұрын

Back seat is a depressing place to be. Cost cutting going crazy, with no rear centre armrest. 🤑

@nate8932 8 ай бұрын

jeep wave is only for wranglers, if im not mistaken

@thecynicalafro160 7 ай бұрын

I don't like where/how the chosed to cut the bumper line. It looks cheap and i forsee alot of broken bumper tabs problems. Nice car though

@John_Merritt 4 ай бұрын

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

@timetimex 8 ай бұрын

Same route as where Harry M does his epic reviews😂

@ameer_shuhail 8 ай бұрын

Please Make more motorcycle videos too

@Baj64 8 ай бұрын

Isn't Harry mad you stole his playground ? 😄

@thezanzibarbarian5729 8 ай бұрын

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

@mrkanarya1907 8 ай бұрын

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??

@M135iboost 8 ай бұрын

Awards bought buy the manufacturer

@jakeblues5854 3 ай бұрын

Why can't I find the 1,2ltr turbo petrol version

@zt11slap 2 ай бұрын

Only in Italy or Spain AFAIK

@jeremyradford5103 8 ай бұрын

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 😅

@MrMannyhw 8 ай бұрын

Neither!

@jeremyradford5103 8 ай бұрын

@@MrMannyhw I don't imagine you would buy an electric car of any description..

@MrMannyhw 8 ай бұрын

@@jeremyradford5103 most likely would get Tesla 3 or Polestar 2. :)

@jeremyradford5103 8 ай бұрын

@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.

@mheijne2 8 ай бұрын

FYI, UK is situated IN Europe

@mrmawson2438 8 ай бұрын

Hello mate People with a Robin Reliant did that lol

@lesvassallo5760 8 ай бұрын

Interesting review Not all of the superheroes wear capes They drive around in an electric ⚡ yellow Jeep Avenger. Thinking it looks good. It's different from all the mundane european boxes that are on our roads. Shame about the build quality Black moveable plastic. No arm rest or ventilation in the rear. What about the 2443 rubber ducks in the boot😅 Is it car of the year no I have to agree there are much better cars like the Ferrari Purosangue. One of your best reviews Stunningly beautiful location and an awesome car. At the end of the day It's a Jeep It's Different. Even though it has a starting price at 36k rising to over 40k Will people buy it. You know they will