• Well laid out dashboard
• Feels impressively tough and durable
• Infotainment upgrade feels like a backwards step

How’s the quality and the layout?

What you first realise once inside the Wrangler is the impressive sense of durability. The dashboard, door materials, seats, switches and levers all look and feel impressively solid. There is a large smattering of buttons on the dashboard, which might be a little confusing at first glance. Here, you can control many of the car’s functions. Choose the off-road focused Rubicon and additional switches for the car’s 4x4 engineering are placed here, too.

Wranglers feature analogue instrument dials – a rarity these days, frankly – with a small central information screen that can be configured to view what you like. The steering wheel, meanwhile, is quite button heavy and features rocker switches for volume and audio control on the back of the wheel where your fingertips rest – not the front.

Infotainment and tech

The major part of the 2024 upgrade the Wrangler had was the massive increase in available technology. The most noticeable difference about the whole car is the new infotainment screen – a new wide and glossy display housing the latest software. It’s one that’s shared with a number of Stellantis models, including Maseratis and the Fiat 500e.

While Jeep claims the technology is five times faster than the old system, we’re not convinced. While it’s a very clean system and very easy to read, our tests showed that its responsiveness was the same if not quite as fast as the old system used to be.

Comfort

Another part of the latest updated Wrangler was the addition of standard powered seats in the front, as well as them being heated. The steering wheel is also heated on both Sahara and Rubicon specifications.

The seats are very firmly padded and durably upholstered, making long journeys quite easy. The snag is a very upright driving position, which makes you feel like you’re driving a van more than a car. As mentioned before, a quirk with right-hand drive models is that the driver is limited in legroom for their left foot.