Jeep Gladiator

The most significant updates for the 2024 Gladiator are side curtain airbags, as well as structural enhancements and rear seat belt pretensioners for improved crash performance.

Just as trucks and SUVs are popular with car shoppers these days, so were they at the show, with three of the four vehicle debuts falling into these two categories.

The 2024 Gladiator sports a lot of the same tasty upgrades as the 2024 Wrangler, with a few key omissions and a sad discontinuation from the prior model year.

For 2024, the Gladiator receives nearly identical enhancements to its in-car technology and safety that proved to be significant additions to the new Wrangler.

Limited to 1,000 units, the 2023 FarOut edition combines popular Gladiator Rubicon options with unique badging and graphics.

The list of model-year 2023-24 cars with manual transmissions skews mostly to affordable models and those that are more enthusiast-oriented, but there’s still a decent range of choices.

In a recent testing session involving model-year 2022-23 mid-size crew-cab pickups, not one truck earned top marks for rear-occupant protection from the IIHS.

J.D. Power’s annual Initial Quality Survey measures the number of consumer-reported problems per 100 vehicles during the first 90 days of ownership, and the 2023 results are not good news for manufacturers.

Here’s a look at the best pickup trucks for the 2023 model year for getting more done with less fuel — be it gasoline, diesel or electricity — sorted by truck size.

An issue with the high-pressure fuel pump has prompted Stellantis to recall more than 45,000 Jeep Wrangler SUVs and Gladiator trucks and Ram 1500 trucks.