After 30 long years, Jeep's new pickup, the Gladiator, is finally here, and it's great. To kick things off, Jeep will offer a Launch Edition that you'll only be able to pre-order on April 4th (4/4, or as Jeep is now christening it, 4x4 day). The Gladiator Launch Edition is basically a loaded Rubicon, and Jeep will only build 4190 examples, each carrying an MSRP of $62,310. That's a lot of money, of course, but it's about the same as a non-Launch Edition Gladiator Rubicon with every option thrown at it. The Launch Edition will be offered with five exterior color choices—Black, Bright White, Billet Silver Metallic, Firecracker Red, and Granite Crystal Metallic—while the interior will feature black leather with red accents. As standard, you get a six-speed manual, while an eight-speed auto is available as an option. Here's the full equipment list from Jeep: "Standard features include LED head and taillights, an 8.4-inch touchscreen, a nine-speaker Alpine premium sound system, keyless entry, Forward Facing TrailCam camera, Blind-spot Monitoring, Rear Cross Path detection, ParkSense rear park assist system, Advanced Brake Assist, Full-Speed Forward Collision Warning Plus, Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop, Trail Rail Cargo Management System, spray-in bedliner and [the] Trailer Tow Package." Being a Rubicon, the Gladiator Launch Edition also comes with Falken 33-inch all-terrain tires, Dana 44 solid axles, a "Rock-Trac" transfer case with 4:1 low-range gearing, electronic front and rear differential locks, and an electric sway bar disconnect. So, $62,310 is a lot of money, but it certainly gets you a lot of stuff. Jeep You might be wondering why Jeep will offer 4190 examples of the Gladiator Launch Edition, since it's a seemingly random number. It's because 419 is the area code for Toledo, Ohio, where the Gladiator and Wrangler are built. Every Gladiator has "♡ 419" embossed in the bedliner as a tribute to Toledo and the workers at the Jeep factory there. Each Gladiator Launch Edition will have an aluminum badge on the tailgate indicating that it's one of 4190. Jeep If you buy a Gladiator Launch Edition, you can also enter Jeep's "Find Your Freedom" contest, where the brand will give you a $100,000 salary to go explore the world for a year with your truck. You'll have to submit a video and be chosen for that, though. You can place an order for a Gladiator Launch Edition on Jeep's website on the 4th, at which point a "Gladiator Concierge" will pair you with a dealer to finish your order and place a deposit for the truck. And if you want a different Gladiator, the configurator is up on Jeep's site, complete with pricing info. 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You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>Hide press release Show press release 2020 Jeep® Gladiator Launch Edition Available for One Day Only Pre-Orders – on Jeep 4x4 Day Buyers can win ultimate freedom: One-year’s salary to enjoy the Jeep lifestyle and all the activities that the Jeep Gladiator enables  All-new 2020 Jeep® Gladiator Launch Edition: Fully loaded Rubicon model with unique badging, wheels, and interior accents  Concierge pre-order experience – select Gladiator Launch Edition, estimate trade-in, and connect with a dealer – via the dedicated online Gladiator concierge site  Gladiator Launch Edition limited to 4,190 vehicles in U.S.; production numbers chosen as a nod to Toledo, Ohio, where the truck is built  One-day pre-order opportunity: Gladiator Launch Edition available for pre-order only on Jeep 4x4 Day – April 4th – on Jeep.com  Gladiator Launch Edition buyers will then be exclusively eligible to enter Jeep’s “Find Your Freedom” contest where they can win one-year’s salary of $100,000, giving them the chance to take time off to pursue their own adventures The all-new 2020 Jeep® Gladiator – the most off-road capable midsize truck ever – has been highly anticipated since its reveal last November at the Los Angeles auto show. To celebrate its arrival into Jeep showrooms this spring, a limited-run Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition model will be made available to customers who take advantage of a special one-day-only online pre-order opportunity. The unique Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition will only be offered for pre-order on Jeep 4x4 Day – April 4th – at Jeep.com. The pre-order process – including selecting a Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition, estimating trade-in and connecting with dealer – can be completed online, and through the dedicated Jeep Gladiator Concierge. The all-new Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition will come with unique wheels and interior accents, as well as a “One of 4,190” forged aluminum tailgate badge. The number is a tribute to Toledo, Ohio – and its 419 area code – where both Gladiator and the Jeep Wrangler are proudly assembled. Gladiator Launch Edition will be limited to 4,190 units in the U.S. Additionally, consumers who pre-order a Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition model will be exclusively eligible to enter the “Find Your Freedom” contest, where they will have the opportunity to win what Gladiator offers: Jeep Freedom. More specifically, they can win one-year’s salary of $100,000, so they can take the time off to enjoy the Jeep lifestyle of pursuing any outdoor adventure. To enter, they will submit their personal “Gladiator” video to be judged by the Jeep brand and wounded warrior and U.S. Army veteran Noah Galloway, who will choose the winner. “The anticipation for the all-new Jeep Gladiator has been tremendous, and to mark the introduction of the first Jeep pickup truck in nearly 30 years, we are offering a distinctive model, a convenient online ordering experience, and the opportunity for a very special prize,” said Tim Kuniskis – Head of Jeep Brand – North America. “Jeep Gladiator enables the one-of-a-kind Jeep lifestyle. But to enjoy that lifestyle you need time. So we’re offering that, in the form of one-year’s salary, to the winner, so he or she can truly enjoy the outdoors, pursuing any adventure in their all-new Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition.” Customers will have the chance to reserve their Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition through an entirely unique online retailing experience. They will be able to go to the designated Jeep Gladiator concierge online site (https://www.jeep.com/gladiator/launch-edition.html) to enter their contact information and be contacted the same day by the Jeep Gladiator concierge to assist in completing their purchase. The concierge will pair the customer to a dealer of their choosing to submit their deposit, then finalize the sale and ultimately take delivery. Manufactured at the Toledo Supplier Park in Toledo, Ohio, the all-new 2020 Jeep Gladiator arrives in Jeep showrooms this spring. All-new 2020 Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition Joining the Gladiator lineup for a limited run, the Launch Edition features a unique forged aluminum tailgate badge, 17-inch Mid Gloss Black aluminum wheels, 33-inch Falken Wildpeak All-Terrain tires, a wrapped instrument panel mid-bolster painted in Monaco silver, and black leather seats with red accent stitching. Available in Black, Bright White, Billet Silver Metallic, Firecracker Red, and Granite Crystal Metallic the Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition features a body-color hard top and fender flares. Standard features include LED head and tail lights, an 8.4-inch touchscreen, a 9-speaker Alpine premium sound system, keyless entry, Forward Facing TrailCam camera, Blind-Spot and Cross-Path Detection, ParkSense® Rear Park-Assist System, Advanced Brake Assist, Full-Speed Forward Collision Warning Plus, Adaptive Cruise Control with Stop, Trail Rail Cargo Management System, spray-In bedliner and Trailer Tow. Gladiator Rubicon models are capable of towing 7,650 lbs. The Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition features a 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine, rated at 285 horsepower and 260 lb-ft. of torque, and a six-speed manual transmission or an optional eight-speed automatic transmission. All-new 2020 Jeep Gladiator The all-new 2020 Jeep Gladiator - the most off-road capable midsize truck ever - builds on a rich heritage of tough, dependable Jeep trucks with an unmatched combination of rugged utility, authentic Jeep design, open-air freedom, clever functionality and versatility and best-in-class towing and 4x4 payload. Available with three different powertrain combinations and equipped with a versatile cargo box, Gladiator is built to handle the demands of an active lifestyle while delivering an open-air driving experience in a design that is unmistakably Jeep. Combining traditional Jeep attributes with strong truck credentials, the Jeep Gladiator is a unique vehicle capable of taking passengers and cargo anywhere. A multitude of technology features, such as Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and safety features such as Blind Spot Monitoring and Rear Crosspath Detection, Adaptive Cruise Control and Forward Collision Warning Plus+ further Gladiator’s appeal. All Gladiator models are Trail Rated with a badge indicating that the vehicle is designed to perform in a variety of challenging off-road conditions identified by five key consumer-oriented performance categories: traction, ground clearance, maneuverability, articulation and water fording. Gladiator Rubicon models are equipped with signature red tow hooks, Rock-Trac® 4x4 system, featuring a two speed transfer case with a 4:1 low-range gear ratio, front and rear heavy-duty Dana 44 axles, Tru-Lok® electric front- and rear-axle lockers, segment-exclusive electronic sway bar disconnect, cab and bed rock rails and standard 33-inch Falken Wildpeak All-Terrain off-road tires.<doc-sep>The Daily Beast Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos via Elizabeth City Police Department/FacebookValerie Lindsey was protesting with a small crowd in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, on Monday evening when a white sedan rolled up to an intersection partly blocked by activists enraged by the police killing of a local Black man.Lindsey, who is Black, told The Daily Beast that the driver of that vehicle, 41-year-old Lisa Michelle O’Quinn, rolled down her window and said that if members of the Elizabeth City Police Department, who were guarding the procession, were not present, the protesters “would not be safe.”Lindsey added that, when she and two other protesters came closer to O’Quinn’s car to confront her, O’Quinn, who is white, uttered racial slurs, including the n-word. Two other witnesses to the incident confirmed that slurs were uttered.“She said it freely,” Lindsey told The Daily Beast.Gunfire Erupts at George Floyd Square as Mourners Gather for One-Year AnniversaryThen, police say, O’Quinn drove her car into protesters, sending two of them—including Lindsey—to the hospital. The incident appeared to be just the latest instance of white reactionaries deliberately targeting racial-justice protesters, a brutal and grim hallmark of unrest in the George Floyd protest era.And it came just hours before the anniversary of Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis.“I really feel like we were targeted,” Deshawn Morris, 41, whose wife Michelle was the other protester allegedly struck by O’Quinn, told The Daily Beast.O’Quinn was arrested on Monday and charged with two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill by the use of a motor vehicle and one count of careless and reckless and one count of unsafe movement. She could not be reached for comment on Tuesday, and it was unclear if she was being represented by an attorney.She has not been charged with a hate crime, though the Elizabeth City Police Department said in a press release that they would be investigating possible hate-crime charges. Pasquotank County District Attorney Andrew Womble, who has been the subject of protester ire for declining to press charges against the county Sheriff’s deputies who shot and killed Andrew Brown Jr., a Black man, as he fled being served a warrant last month, did not respond to requests for comment.While police said O’Quinn struck Lindsey and Michelle Morris, 42, witnesses told The Daily Beast that a third person, Joshua Grooten, was also hit by her car a short distance away.Grooten, 27, said he often rides his bikes along the sides of planned protest routes to help keep cars from entering permitted processions. He said a police car was riding ahead of the procession on Monday and that an officer made sure O’Quinn was completely stopped at an intersection before the protesters walked by chanting.Grooten, who is white, said he heard O’Quinn saying that without police, the group would not be safe, and saw the tense exchange between O’Quinn, Lindsey, and others, though he could not hear it. He said that after O’Quinn drove through Lindsey and Morris, he put his bike in her path to stop her and she hit the brakes just short of hitting him, slightly bending his bike. He said O’Quinn told him to move after nearly hitting him, but said he only got out of the way when an Elizabeth City police officer asked him to do so.Witnesses said they had no doubt about why the collision took place.“That’s premeditated,” Deshawn Morris told The Daily Beast. “There is no doubt about that at all. She meant to do exactly what she did.”He added that because O’Quinn allegedly used slurs and drove her car toward Black protesters, he believed hate-crime charges would be fitting.According to witnesses and videos from the scene viewed by The Daily Beast, after O’Quinn hit Lindsey and Morris, an Elizabeth City police officer told protesters to move out of the way and let her through, angering them. “They just wanted to let her go,” Morris said. The Elizabeth City Police Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Grooten and other witnesses said that after O’Quinn sped away, she was stopped quickly by another police vehicle and arrested.According to the Elizabeth City Police Department, O’Quinn was being held in the Albemarle District Jail with a bond set at $40,000. A spokesperson for the Albemarle District Jail told The Daily Beast that O’Quinn was still incarcerated as of Tuesday evening.Lindsey said she was treated in the hospital and released with no life-threatening injuries. Morris said his wife was also released from the hospital but was still in pain and sore on one side of her body.She’s also shaken up mentally. “She got hit by a car,” he said.Morris, who said he grew up with Andrew Brown Jr. in Elizabeth City and has been protesting since his death in April, said the incident would not deter protesters from continuing to take to the streets.He added that although no charges had been filed against the officers who shot and killed Brown—the FBI was still conducting a civil rights probe into the case—protesters weren’t even close to finished. And attacks like the one on Monday were not going to stop them.“We just don’t have any faith at all in our top officials,” he told The Daily Beast. “We just need to put people in positions that are going to work for everybody.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.<doc-sep>
UPDATE 4/5/19: Jeep has announced that all 4190 Gladiator Launch Editions sold out on April 4th, which was the only day that the special truck would be available to order. Customers ordered the truck through a special "Gladiator Concierge" website that connected each buyer with a dealer. The 2020 Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition is based on a fully loaded Gladiator Rubicon model. Only 4190 of the Launch Edition will be produced, and they're available exclusively though a one-day preorder program on April 4, 2019, at Jeep.com. Buyers will be qualified for exclusive entry into Jeep’s Find Your Freedom contest, where they can win $100,000. Jeep's love for its hometown of Toledo, Ohio, is absolute, and the 2020 Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition is just the latest token of its affection. Available via a one-day, pre-order-only program scheduled for Thursday, April 4, the Gladiator Launch Edition will be limited to a production run of "just" 4190 units as a nod to the 419 area code of Toledo, where the Gladiator and Wrangler are assembled. The price? A a cool $62,310. FCA US LLC Jeep fans will point out that April 4 is also National Jeep 4x4 day, a day dedicated to the celebration of all the Jeep things with four-wheel drive, but there's another Toledo-centric calendar play in action. In an act of either kismet or shrewd demographic marketing, April 4 also happens to be the opening day for the Toledo Mud Hens AAA minor-league baseball team, an equally revered T-town institution that inspires similar acts of rabid devotion and irrational behavior. Throw in a two-for-one lunch deal at Tony Packo's, and the entire city would be in danger of imploding from the sheer amount of civic pride bubbling though its veins. Arguably the most interesting aspect of ordering a 2020 Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition package is the opportunity it brings to later enter Jeep's "Find Your Freedom" contest. Entrants will be asked to submit a short video of themselves and their Gladiator Launch Edition doing Jeep things and expressing how they'd spend a year off from work. Entries will be judged by the Jeep brand and U.S. Army veteran and wounded warrior Noah Galloway, who will select the winner. The $100,000 grand prize—which Jeep refers to as "one year's salary"—is a symbolic permission slip to tell the bossman to take this job and shove it, and blow the cash Gladiatoring around without worry. (Additional details about the contest and entry information can be found by watching this video filmed at the Toledo Jeep complex.) FCA US LLC Based on a full-boat Rubicon, the 2020 Jeep Gladiator Launch Edition is offered in Black, Bright White, Billet Silver Metallic, Firecracker Red, and Granite Crystal Metallic, with a body-color hard top and an exclusive forged-aluminum tailgate badge as standard. Fender flares shroud 17-inch Mid Gloss Black aluminum wheels wrapped in 33-inch Falken Wildpeak All-Terrain tires. Interior touches include a wrapped instrument panel in Monaco Silver and black leather seats with red accent stitching. Given its well-optioned Rubicon bones, the Launch Edition will also come with LED head- and taillights, an 8.4-inch touchscreen, a nine-speaker Alpine premium sound system, keyless entry, a front-facing TrailCam camera, and the full suite of nanny and driver-assistance features. The Trail Rail Cargo Management System, a spray-in bedliner, and a Trailer Tow package are also included. The standard 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine is mated to a standard six-speed manual or optional eight-speed automatic transmission. While the cynical among us might suggest the Launch Edition is just a cheap trick to generate hype, we suggest they stay the hell out of Toledo on April 4, lest they suffer the lingering effects of an unfiltered dose of civic pride.