Slowly but surely, Dodge and Jeep’s hot girl era of V8-powered performance is coming to an end. The Dodge Challenger and Charger and its SRT variants are gone, as well as the Chrysler 300; its 300C (aka SRT-8) is already gone. Ram announced the death of the TRX with a Final Edition last summer. Now, the only V8-powered performance models you can get from Stellantis are the Dodge Durango SRT 392, SRT Hellcat and Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392. Now it seems the Wrangler Rubicon 392 is not long for this world either.
First spotted by Autoblog, a dealer document leaked on the Wrangler JL owners’ forum Wranglers suggests that the V8-powered Wrangler is set to get the axe soon. The document details a dealer challenge that’s starting this month. Dealers in three different regions of the country will have to beat a sales challenge of selling a specific number of a certain model for that region; Great Lakes dealers have to sell a certain number of Wranglers and Grand Cherokees, for instance. At the end of the month, the challenge is over and whoever comes out on top will get a single allocation of what’s described as a model year 2024 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 392 Final Edition.
The Wrangler Rubicon 392 going away shouldn’t be surprising. Stellantis is heading into an EV future like everyone else. The auto company has a tendency to give final editions of some of its model’s special vehicles when they bow out; Stellantis did it with the TRX Final Edition, all those special edition Charger and Challenger Last Calls, as well as the Jeep Gladiator Diesel and its FarOut Edition.
Markups on this so-called Final Edition should be wild; some in the forums mentioned that dealers are still marking up existing Wrangler Rubicon 392 inventory. Others are wondering if this final edition will affect existing orders of the 392 that haven’t been filled yet.
Nothing has been officially announced. I reached out to Jeep to see if it would comment on whether or not any of this is true, and I’ll update when it gets back to me. As for fans and potential buyers of the Wrangler Rubicon 392, get one while you can — if you can. You’ll never see anything like it again.