The 2026 Jeep Wrangler Still Takes Its Doors Off and Still Comes With a Manual — but Jeep Won't Publish Its Angles or Its Real Price — Rated 4/10

The Wrangler's case for itself is the part no rival can copy. Every one comes with removable doors and a removable top, and for 2026 Jeep added quick-release door hinges so the doors come off without tools. Roof options run from the Sunrider soft top to the Freedom Top hardtop and the power-retracting Sky One-Touch. Wading depth is a stated 86 centimetres. That combination remains genuinely unique in the new-vehicle market.

The price attached to it needs unpacking, because the number Jeep advertises is not a manufacturer's suggested retail price. The headline $41,495 for a two-door Sport already includes freight and surcharges and is then reduced by current manufacturer discounts — Jeep's own vehicle card labels it as including $2,500 in total discount. Complicating matters further, Jeep Canada runs two price ladders on its own site that disagree with each other, typically by about that same $2,500 and by considerably more on the four-door Rubicon. Jeep does not break out a freight figure for the Wrangler anywhere.

Twelve trims are listed, six of them two-door. The ladder runs from Sport and Sport S through Willys, Sahara and the 85th Anniversary Edition to Rubicon and Rubicon X, with four-door versions of most. Three engines serve them: the 3.6-litre Pentastar V6 at 285 horsepower and 260 pound-feet, a 2.0-litre turbocharged four at 270 and 295, and — in the limited-edition Willys 392 and MOAB 392 — a 6.4-litre V8 producing 470 of each.

A six-speed manual is standard on ten of the twelve trims, with the eight-speed automatic standard only on the Sahara and the V8 cars. In a market where the manual gearbox has nearly vanished, that is worth stating plainly.

The off-road hardware is serious where it matters. Rubicons get Rock-Trac four-wheel drive, 4.10 axles, Tru-Lok locking differentials and an electronic sway-bar disconnect; the four-door Rubicon adds a heavy-duty full-float rear axle and rock rails. Lower trims run Selec-Trac or Command-Trac. Towing peaks at 2,268 kilograms on a four-door Rubicon, with other four-doors at 1,587 and two-doors at 907.

What Jeep Canada does not publish is conspicuous for a vehicle sold on capability. There are no approach, breakover or departure angles anywhere on the Canadian site. There is no ground-clearance figure for any mainline trim — the only one given is 28.2 centimetres for the limited-edition Willys 392. And the status of the 4xe plug-in hybrid is genuinely contradictory: it appears in none of the twelve 2026 trims and none of the engine listings, its dedicated page redirects to the gasoline car, yet Jeep Canada's current military discount disclaimer explicitly names a 2026 Wrangler 4xe among its exclusions. No electric range is published, and we will not invent one.

Inside, a 12.3-inch Uconnect 5 touchscreen is standard across the range, with adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, forward collision warning with active braking and eight airbags. A note for anyone comparing spec sheets: Jeep's own trim cards print that screen as 11.9 centimetres, which is a conversion error on Jeep's part — 31.2 centimetres is correct.

The heritage claim is the manufacturer's own and is well founded. Jeep Canada's 85th Anniversary material traces the vehicle directly to the Willys MB of 1941 to 1945, of which more than 626,000 were built to a single standardised design — the first mass-produced four-wheel-drive vehicle. The current JL generation dates to 2017.

A 4/10 from the Torbrook Rating Agency is among the lowest marks this desk has issued, and it runs against the Wrangler's standing as the reference point for production off-road capability. We present it as what it is: our own judgment of the whole proposition, including a price presentation we find unhelpful and a capability sheet with its most important numbers missing. The specifications above are Jeep's; the score is ours alone.