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Jeep Wrangler new - Twin peaks

Published: 04 Apr 2007

Jeep Wranglers are for real men, goddamnit. Real men who make fire and eat their steak rare and defecate in arboreal areas.

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That's why Jeep Wranglers can go to the top of the world. That's right, partner. Two Jeep Wranglers have just set the record for the highest altitude ever reached by four-wheeled vehicles. Put that in your Queer as Folk-watching pipe and smoke it.

Carrying a team lead by Mattias Jeschke, the two Wranglers climbed 6,648 metres to the rim of the Ojos del Salado volcano in Chile.

With the exception of Goodyear MT/R tyres and electronic measuring equipment, both the Wranglers were stock Rubicon models packing 3.8-litre V6s.

The Wranglers took six days - six gruelling days - to scale the Andean volcano and were described by Jeschke as "unbeatable".

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And that's the verdict of a real man.

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