DIRT RIOT

If we told you there’s a new vehicle on the block with 470 horsepower and 470 lb-ft of torque from a 392-cubic-inch V-8, a 0–60 time of 4.2 seconds, a quarter-mile time of 12.9 seconds, and that it’s an all-wheel-drive convertible, would you guess we’re talking about a Jeep Wrangler? Maybe—if we also told you the doors come off, the windshield folds down, and it has a crawl ratio of 48:1. Meet the 2021 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392.

After years of customer requests, Jeep finally put a factory V-8 in the Wrangler for the first time, and, holy heck, it was worth the wait. The powertrain is the same 6.4-liter V-8 and eight-speed automatic found in the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT, but the engineering team needed to make several substantive changes to shoehorn the Hemi into the Wrangler’s tight engine compartment.

For example, a