.....are not a bunch of dorks, contrary to what the September 2003 issue of JP states. If I had a subscription I would cancel it. As it stands I will never subscribe now.  

You know that was funny for them to talk trash about the Rubicon, I took mine off-roadin this past weekend, and i had several people waiting in line to check it out they even crawled underneith and checked out MY GARBAGE TRUCK. Thank you JP.  

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How dare you bash the Rubicon one issue when you glorified it in a past issue. (Beating the H2 in a test) Come on, we all don't act like stuck up off road god's. Why seperate the Rubicon owners from other JEEP owners. Just because you have had some bad run-in's with a FEW Rubicon owners. I bought my Rubicon because it had the features on it that I was wanting to put on a standard Wrangler, not because of a sticker on the hood. I auctually considered taking it off, just because I didn't want to get labeled like that, but all my Jeep buddies told me not too. I think you owe all the Jeep lovers out there an appology. (not just the Rubicon owners) because you have insulted us all.

Oh well! I guess I just don't make the grade. I own 2 Garbage Trucks. An 02 Liberty and an 03 Rubicon. However, they are my fourth and fifth jeeps, and are the best ones to date. The way I figure it, the Bozo that wrote the article is just jealous' cause he's used to driving trash and can't afford a new one. And yeah my Rubi has a lift kit and high dollar wheels and tires and bumpers front and rear ( all from manufactuers that advertise in JP), plus all the stock neat guy stuff. All the kind of stuff that the folks at the magazine spend big bucks on. But I bought it that way, in one complete package. I'm just glad that the guy that traded in the Rubicon with 227 miles on the clock and put all the big bucks stuff on it didn't read the test between the Hummer and the Jeep because he might not have traded in the Rubicon so I could buy it. I really understand the jealous part though, because the Rubicon is the jeep that I have wanted for 25 years and just now can afford it. So if it's garbage bring on the trash.  

Do all of you actually have fake nuts hanging from your rear bumpers? Man, I'm in the wrong business.

Geez, did you guys read the whole story? If not I recomend it. Even our own '66 Panel and doored flatfender would have made the list if we had more space. Take a moment to laugh a little and not take everything so seriously. That's the reason I got into Jeeps in the first place, they're fun.

John Cappa

Editor, Jp Magazine  

you cant pay don king for tyson to take a dive, step in the ring and call yourself a boxer .  just like you cant fork out the dough buy  rube and call yourself a  jeep guy.  do the rest of us a favor, go back to your geo and leave the man stuff to us, you  pansy cant take any flack mommas boys.

Hi John:

Sure I have a sense of humor...that's why I cancelled my 3 year subscription to JP after reading your Garbage Truck article. Give me useful information about my Jeep. I bought my first Jeep in April, a Liberty. I think I made a good choice....I really like driving this car. First thing I did was head to Barnes and Noble to find a good Jeep Magazine that might lead me to some cool accessories and vendors. I subscribed to JP. Sorry it's over.  I'll find another rag to support and I'll smile that I'm no longer sending my money your way.  

so long,

mike

owner of 2003 Jeep Liberty Renegade

Let me get this straight, you call Rubicons, Libertys, Commandos, and other jeeps "garbage trucks" and say that   if there was more pages we would have understood it was a joke story? You mean, those pages that went to this asinnine juggy vehicle maybe? So far I don't see a single Jeep product on this thing,  but all the ones you call "garbage" are actual jeeps. what is going on at this magazine? I guess I should know that because these are "garage" vehicles, I'll never see stories on any of them but can look forward to more stories on the juggy other non Jeeps like the tow stories.Develop a sense of humor about you wasting our time with this issue full of crap (get women in your jeep? another waste of pages that could have been jeep tech)? We will, when you develop a jeep magazine.

I'm with Mike. See you.  

You guys all get your panties in a bunch after one stupid article about your jeeps?  You guys ARE a bunch of dorks!  You're all crankier than a crotchety old man with his underpants on backwards.  I say its better tha you all cancel your subscriptions and go back to reading O magazine.  

Seriously though, don't get all uptight about this.  It's a freakin joke!

Jeep761: Not quite correct. You misread the post too.

John

"Editor" Cappa....you are right in saying that Jeeping is fun. Being insulted by someone who is an authority on Jeeps is not. You insulted your readers, which is not funny. Journalism 101 should have taught you that.

The two authors of the article, one calling himself the editor, the other a “technical editor,” seem to be primarily interested in rock humping with highly modified Wranglers and CJs. Even so, they seem to be running out of ideas. The current issue seems to be an attempt to emulate David Letterman’s 10 things routine to death. Besides the highly questionable 10 best Garbage trucks we’d never own article, another was the somewhat bizarre 10 best Cream of the crop vehicles--many of which can only be located in a bone yard under several decades of rust. Or how about the less-than-intelligent 10 ways to get a girl in your jeep article, although curiously “at gunpoint” wasn’t even listed (which you’d think would be number 1 with this bunch).

It says on the cover “All Jeeps,” but a quick flip through the magazine and you’ll quickly spot the deception. Whatever any defender of this rag might say, it’s undeniable they’ve been sniping at the Liberty since it came out (when they bother to mention it at all) and are now slamming the widely acclaimed Jeep Rubicon. At any rate you have to wonder how long the advertisers, many of whom market Liberty & Rubicon parts and accessories, or for that matter Primedia, their parent company, would put up with this negative self-defeating exclusiveness on the part of the current staff. It has to be hurting their already poor circulation numbers, not to mention limiting their advertisers’ revenues. If all these guys want to do is screw around and piss people off, do what I did--cancel your subscription and then request they be removed from your local newsstands. If that isn’t enough, write Primedia and the advertisers who still place ads in this poor excuse for a magazine. Tell them what you think of this.

Marc

 

Note to JP editors and anyone else who still has a job at the magazine.

Don't divide your readers by elevating some and putting down others.  You may think that the Rubicon owners needed to be put in their place, but these are the guys who actually have the dough to buy crap from your sponsors!  Sure, I thought the article was funny enough, but it really wasn't needed.  We were already pissed off because of the whole get chicks in the jeep thing.  You guys left out the picture of the six girls stuffing the 500 bucks in their back pocket for the shoot.  Man if I had the dough and could put chicks in a mag I'd be raking them in too.

Don't worry, I'm still a subscriber.  but shape up and think a little more about what you put on the paper.

Actually the chicks got in the Jeep for free.

John