I had a chance to spend some time on an autox course with the Jeep. These were just fun runs prior to an event today.

While the Jeep is loads of fun on the road, it's weight and slooooow steering response make it a challenge to drive quickly on an autocross course. And the intrusive electronic nannies were irritating. Rolling on the throttle and transferring weight would start throttle on oversteer, only to have ESP rear its ugly head and step in to protect me. I didn't have time to mess with fuses to completely disable it. I also got to play a bit with it on a wet skidpad, but again ESP got in the way of really starting a drift fest.

Despite those issues, considering it's bulk, it was remarkably well behaved out there, especially once you got the hang of throwing around all that weight. And the brakes felt awesome.

After I did a few runs, several people hopped in to try it out so I could get some pics. All got out with big smiles on their faces.

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Alex

Looks like fun.... I find the stock brakes are awesome but wear way too quickly on the race track. :D

Looks good out there. Must be interesting to see someone else driving your Jeep...

Looks good...