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We put its long-distance driving ability to the test on a trip to Spain

Steve Cropley, who has been running this Jeep Wrangler on a long-term basis, has been busy with it, but one thing that he hasn’t managed to do is take the big Tonka toy on an overseas excursion.

This isn’t to call into question his appetite for discomfort: he once slogged across the Australian outback to interview for a job he had been assured he wasn’t going to get (he got it). But it’s a fact that anything with a ladder-frame construction isn’t exactly going to rock your passengers to sleep. Steve's descriptions of the Wrangler’s ride quality mostly extend to a laconic ‘rough’, while conceding that after a bit you do stop noticing it – something I now agree with wholeheartedly.