I'm sure that getting in the MAG helped.  Anyhow, why don't you go ahead and give me their phone numbers so I can verify this....  

Riiiiight...It's in the mail.

John

HELP!

I may have turned into a dork, How could this have happened?

I was happy, I had a 2001 TJ Sport daily driver and a 1978 CJ-7 Project

Jeep, 1979 CJ-5 Parts Donor. etc..

My wife likes to wheel and loves Jeeps, I had a jeep when we were first

dating (the CJ-5), She Bought a Jeep (The CJ-7) and then we bought the

TJ

and the CJ was given to me. Then.....

THE JEEP RUBICON came out.

We needed one.. we had to have one...

We ordered one... we traded in the 01' and got one of the first 04'

Rubicons.

we have about 500 miles on it now and then I recieved the September

Issue

of JP and the made the "Garbage Trucks" list

to add further salt to the wound I discovered that I may be a dork...

is there some redemption?, is there any hope?, is my soul fated to

eternal

Jeep Hell?

I have even put my project up for sale to fund the building of the new

jeep.

My wife loves the new jeep and there is No taking it back

Please advise

Chaz the Super Dork

PS. Does this mean that I need to shave, buy a suit and get a white

collar

job? Oh the Horror of it all.......

PSS Tell Cappa and Hazel to email me for a good deal on a bunch of Jeep

stuff.  

My husband Chaz wrote the last post using my name about being a dork in response to the highly controversial article slamming Rubicon owners.  Thought I should clarify that a man doesn't go by Daisy Duke.  

I like the rubi.

I'd love to have one.

I have recently revived my '97 tj, with the help of a freind who owns a rubi.

my first comment, after my '97 started ...

i love your jeep, but this feels good.

I have a lot of loyalty to my 97 ... with all it's quirks.

Have fun with whatever the hell you have.

Pete  

AMEN BROTHER , iv'e had it with this magazine . If the current staff members keep this up, whats going to happen when jeep comes out with a INDEPENDENT FRONT SUSPENSION on a revised WRANGLER type vehicle : oh no , oh no it just can't be they'll be sayin. But lets face it THE ONLY THING CERTAIN IN THIS LIFE IS CHANGE .So all the editors in the world can't stop life , thus good luck with CHANGE. 

                                                           p.s. Great Post

Not only that, a family member works for DC. According to him, they were considering building it on the Liberty chasis, not just the IRS. I don't know if the decision has been made yet, but it's on the table.

Marc  

I have a sense of humor, I have a Rubicon, I did enjoy the article and had to giggle. I did not feel insulted in any way.

Come on guys relax a little, I know there are lots of guys who are going to be new to the sport of 4 wheeling that bought a Rubicon, they will go out on a trail and think they can do anything, it's not just the machine, the driver has to develop his ability over time. I think that is who the article is aimed at, the guys who think their Rubicon is the very best thing out there. In my opinion it is a great Jeep and is the platform I am building on. I'll pass on the chrome door handles and truck nuts, thank you very much.

I think that none of you rubicon owners can take a joke...i own a '90 wrangler that i'm pretty sure was on the list but i can't remember if it was or not and if it wasn't it should have been.  But as they said they didn't like the fact that all rubicon owners built them the same.  And as for my Jeep it was a piece until i put a 350,th350,aluminum transfer case,3" body,2" add a leafs and 2" shackels in the front.  i thought the article was funny and brought up some truthful points.  

I would just like to say that my 1988 yj came stock with chrome door handles. : )  

Every Full Size Jeep ever made came stock with chrome door handles! What's the point? Who cares? Don't like' em? Change 'em. Personnaly its on my "to do" list, because of the glare at certain times of the day. The fact that people like to customize their Jeeps so they suit their own needs or personality is nothing new or bad. The fact that some people would rather just drive their Jeeps than work on them all the time can mean several things. They may have more important things to do with their spare time than bolting little bits of junk to their car or completely redesigning them from the frame-rails up. Or maybe they just don't use tools or even have a place to do the work. WHO CARES?!  If it ain't your Jeep, why does it matter, CAPPA?! Personally, I don't care as long as its a Jeep, Then its a Jeep. "Juggy" on the other hand has no place in "JP Magazine"! There isn't a single solitary part on it that's a Jeep. Although its acool rig with awesome engineering, it ain't a Jeep. Anymore than "Big Foot" is a Ford truck. Juggy belongs in a non-brand specific 4 wheel drive mag. That being said however, don't think I'm gonna quit reading the mag. I only buy 'em when the articles interest me, which recently has been few and far between. Now they better have lotsa  J-truck tech and build up. I'm waiting to see what the crew are planning for the J-truck they bought.  

I'm a brand new forum member.  I'm looking for a magazine to subscribe to.   I'm seriously considering a Rubicon.

 I initially was going to purchase a 97-99 Sahara or Sport and upgrade it to Rubicon standards.   I changed my mind after realizing that if I total my vehicle in an accident,  my insurance company will give me more for the Rubicon, than a "modified" Sahara (even if I have about the same money invested in the Sahara).  

 I've not read the article that "slams" Rubi's, but it makes me think twice about subscribing to JP Magazine if this upsetting so many of your subscribers.  I don't consider myself a "dork" and do not want a mag, that I paid a subscription for, to insult me or my choices. 

Is this the way JP mag conducts itself normally?

                                                             Signed,

                                            A concerned potential subscriber.........

Basically the editors bash Rubicons owners in their magazine, for some insane reason, and if you criticize them they will try to belittle you in this forum.

The editors appear to be psychos that don't know where the money in their paychecks originate.  These editors may make good subjects for a master's thesis in psychology. 

It may be they are just going for a different demographic, Jeep owners that drive their Jeeps to high school football games hoping to pick up cheerleaders.   Who knows,  who cares.  But I won't pay for the rag anymore.  

 I would like to pick up a cheerleader however. 

As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the article is humor based. But I know there are owners of Rubicon's that go out and think their rig is the greatest trail rig and basically snub their noses at others in "less capable rigs". That is where (who) the article is aimed at, not at the Rubicon itself, just at the dorks with "I'm BAD attitudes". Are you one of those dorks? If not, you don't have anything to worry about then.

I have a Rubicon, and I understand the article.

Well put. Thanks.

I have read so many misrepresentations of what we wrote, many by people who never even read the story, just heard through word of mouth or website.