Meet The North American-Market 2019 Jeep Renegade:

Meet The North American-Market 2019 Jeep Renegade:
We Finally See The Renegade Officially For North America...

It’s a big day for the Jeep brand. First off, the announcement of Tim Kuniskis taking over the reigns of the brand from Mike Manley and now information on the refreshed 2019 Jeep Renegade has been released. For the past several months, MoparInsiders.com has been showing you spy photos, dealer information and even European-debut information on the 2019 Jeep Renegade. Now we get to share some specifics on the 2019 Jeep Renegade for the North American market.

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[Bili]

2019 Jeep Renegade First Drive: Flight of the Firefly - Motor Trend

Fuel economy is said to have improved, with a target of boosting the highway figure from 27 to 32 mpg unofficially (final testing was incomplete as of press time). Mind you, Jeep's motivation for making this change has vastly less to do with delighting Renegade owners and everything to do with offsetting the fuel economy of the immensely more profitable big-engine Grand Cherokees.

We sampled a 1.3-liter turbo Renegade at Jeep's annual What's New event held at the extensive Chelsea Proving Ground. On-road, frankly, the 1.3T underwhelms. That should be no big surprise. The weight-to-power ratio of every factory Renegade ever built falls within a pound of 19 lb/hp. Therefore, every one we've tested has accelerated to 60 mph in 9.0 seconds plus or minus a tenth, and—bold prediction—this one will, too. Perhaps of more interest is that nine-speed recalibration, which now includes rev matching. It's not the kind you either love or hate in a Nissan 350Z manual, and you won't notice audible throttle blipping between gears like you do in an M5 or AMG product. Rather, it quietly synchronizes the gear speeds inside the transmission so that shifts happen much more quickly and vastly less noticeably—a welcome thing when there are so many gears being changed.

 

[Ryan]

I'll have to drive it for myself. I don't really trust MotorTrend as they usually have negative things to say about anything that isn't a sports car, luxury car, or a Subaru.