Grey Jeep Wrangler Rental in Los Angeles

Graphite grey is the Wrangler that looks the most capable standing still. It is a dark, flat, almost matte-looking shade against which the black arches, the black wheels and the red tow hooks on the front bumper all stand out — and those hooks are the detail that tells you this car is specified to be used rather than parked.

Grey is the sensible middle of the four Wranglers we run. It does not bake like the black one, does not show every mark like the white one, and does not commit to a look the way the sage green does. It photographs well against dry hillside and against wet asphalt, which covers most of what a week here will throw at it. Take it if you want the capable-looking Wrangler without the green.

The Wrangler is the only vehicle in this fleet whose shape is a functional argument rather than a styling one. The doors come off, the roof comes off, the windscreen folds, and the reason the sides are flat and the corners are square is so that none of that is difficult. Four doors means it is a usable car the rest of the time — five seats, a square boot, and a back row adults fit in.

In Los Angeles it earns its keep twice. On the coast road with the top open it is the best-feeling car here for the money, and on a fire road above Malibu or the sand at the end of a beach track it goes where nothing else in the fleet will. Solid axles and a proper low range are not decoration.

Honest hook: it is loud on the freeway and it is not the car for a long motorway day. Everything it gives up, it gives up on purpose.