Hello everyone, my name is Cesar, I am from Mazatlan Mexico, Mazatlan it's a turistic but small city, so small, there's less than 500,000 people living here, I am looking to buy a 2011 Sahara as a daily driver, my dad loves Jeeps and used to own many, and I kinda felt in love with them too.
I've read threads about JK as a daily driver but all of them talk about US roads, roads here in Mexico are different, in the city the limit is about 30mph or less, there's no long roads to go above that, the only roads to go above that are the freeways of mexico, which most have a lot of curves and risky places, and the ones that are fast and safe, you have to pay to be able to enter them, the max speed is 70mph(not so fast)
So having that in mind, the issues that I've read about the JK as a daily driver, are the low power which would be hard for me to go full throttle in the city, I don't travel from city to city, and for that I have an Expedition and a Hilux.
The other problem I've read is the aerodynamics, which it's not a problem for me because it's not very windy here and I'm not driving at high speed in the city.
As for fuel efficiency, well it's a V6, I am used to my Expedition V8 5.4L worst fuel efficiency.
I am not a car or sedan guy, because I am 6'4" and none of the sedans I've tried are a good fit, maybe I fit in the drivers seat but no one fits in the back seat, so I stay away from sedans.
I would take it offroad but noting too rsiky, just some dirty roads and maybe small rocks, something any wrangler can handle no problem, but will stay in the city 90%of the time.
What do you guys think? Can the Sahara be enough as a daily driver, I need the voice of experience.
Thank you for reading this long thread just for a small answer, but I wanna give you all my context, thanks for your help and excuse the bad grammar, still practicing.
I've read threads about JK as a daily driver but all of them talk about US roads, roads here in Mexico are different, in the city the limit is about 30mph or less, there's no long roads to go above that, the only roads to go above that are the freeways of mexico, which most have a lot of curves and risky places, and the ones that are fast and safe, you have to pay to be able to enter them, the max speed is 70mph(not so fast)
So having that in mind, the issues that I've read about the JK as a daily driver, are the low power which would be hard for me to go full throttle in the city, I don't travel from city to city, and for that I have an Expedition and a Hilux.
The other problem I've read is the aerodynamics, which it's not a problem for me because it's not very windy here and I'm not driving at high speed in the city.
As for fuel efficiency, well it's a V6, I am used to my Expedition V8 5.4L worst fuel efficiency.
I am not a car or sedan guy, because I am 6'4" and none of the sedans I've tried are a good fit, maybe I fit in the drivers seat but no one fits in the back seat, so I stay away from sedans.
I would take it offroad but noting too rsiky, just some dirty roads and maybe small rocks, something any wrangler can handle no problem, but will stay in the city 90%of the time.
What do you guys think? Can the Sahara be enough as a daily driver, I need the voice of experience.
Thank you for reading this long thread just for a small answer, but I wanna give you all my context, thanks for your help and excuse the bad grammar, still practicing.