Jeep reportedly removed the crank windows, in part, due to production costs, since building manual windows at scale is more expensive. This won’t make newer car models more expensive, though.

That's right, in the year 2026, you'll be able to buy a truck in the U.S. that's actually small and also puts you in charge of rolling your windows up and down.

Those are sort of whatever, especially when you consider the Wrangler was one of the last models with hand-crank windows—period. Jeep Stellantis.

Not since cars from the 1990s has there been an interior so barren as the Slate Truck’s. Physical switchgear is used throughout, including the climate control knobs and crank windows.

But father time, or, at least, father progress, is starting to catch up with the Wrangler, which is finally losing its manual crank-handle windows (as does the 2025 Gladiator, the Wrangler's de ...

The Last Car in America With Crank Windows Just Ditched ’Em. After retaining this one manual part longer than anyone else, this model at least holds onto another a little longer.

But father time, or, at least, father progress, is starting to catch up with the Wrangler, which is finally losing its manual crank-handle windows (as does the 2025 Gladiator, the Wrangler's de ...

Compared to the original Jeep — you know, the military vehicle — the 2025 Wrangler JL is a spaceship, even though by modern standards it's a very old-school vehicle when compared to, say, the Ford ...

But father time, or, at least, father progress, is starting to catch up with the Wrangler, which is finally losing its manual crank-handle windows (as does the 2025 Gladiator, the Wrangler's de ...