Great news Tom, now let’s slap a diesel in that Wrangler and call it good! Then the Jeep Sales would skyrocket in the U.S. reaching an all-time Wrangler peak for sales!

did the kj sell great on initial release or did it take some time ?
i bought an 03 renegade, but didnt see many on the road then.
when we bought the 05 sport, they were everywhere.

it may take some time to get the kk going in the market, maybe not though.

Be happy you got the KJ as they are good for long distant driving, it would be a drag to drive that far in a JK, not comfy enough and jittery.

I drive my KJ from North Scotland to Holland, Germany and Italy on a regular basis and as long as you drive not faster than 140 km/h it is a comfy ride.
Just keep an eye on the bad surfaces on the German Autobahn, the first lanes are all worn out by too many trucks and a lack of maintenance (all the money went east) and it will throw a 4x4 about, I even saw a VW Toureg loosing control and nearly rolling just by doing 150 km/h in the first lane.

Yeah that IFS sure is a sweet thing for doing long distance tours. I know the JK isn't a great tourer when I did the test drive it felt a little better than my Patrol but still not as good as the KJ. Same thing when I test drove a newer Patrol with SFA and SRA.

German autobahns are worst in the eastern parts are they not? I went across them 1½ years ago when I went to Italy and back again from France. We didn't have problems with the bahns. The A-series mercedes that we rented was a good ride too. I am fearing the neck support of the KJ isn't up to snuff compared with a mercedes one. That necksupport in the mercedes saved me after doing 1100kms in a row.

There are a few around, every once in a while you see something "interesting " in traffic around town

The Autobahn in the East are better at the moment as they get all the money from the West with the result that the ones in the west are all run down, I did drive from Dusseldorf to Munich last summer and the state of the surface was awfull and sometimes dangerous. I used to drive this stretch a lot in the ninety's with My GTI and the road surface was so good in those days that I hardly ever had to lift my foot from the gas, 220 Km/h all the way.
Even the roads in Italy and Spain are better than in Germany at the moment as they get all the Euro cash to build new ones and resurface the old ones.

I guess you mean the headrest when you mention necksupport, it is not meant for resting your head against during driving, it just stops your neck from braking in case of an accident, the seats of the KJ are quite comfy and I can drive for 8 Hours straight without a problem.

The only thing you should not forget is that it's a 4x4 with big tyres so for safety reasons and fuel consumption is best to stay between 130 and 140, it will go to about 180 (CRD)but it will use a lot of diesel 14L/ 100km plus.

If you want to safe fuel, it will do about 8,5 L/100km at 120 km/h constant, at least mine does, 2.5 CRD with 235 BFG's and 120.000 KM on the clock.

Why is diesel so freaking expensive??

Not as many gallons of diesel produced when compared to gasoline (at least state side) and with the increase in demand for diesel the price has risen. Yet our country fails to produce another facility to relieve the stress of added demand. But that conversation would take this thread in the wrong direction.