Two Decades Ago, Jeep Started Selling Right-Hand Drive Wranglers In America. How Big Of A Discount Would It Take For You To Drive One?

Menu Home » Two Decades Ago, Jeep Started Selling Right-Hand Drive Wranglers In America. How Big Of A Discount Would It Take For You To Drive One? Two Decades Ago, Jeep Started Selling Right-Hand Drive Wranglers In America. How Big Of A Discount Would It Take For You To Drive One? By David Tracy September 30, 2026 6:12 pm 22 Comments As a diehard Jeep nut, I tend to get random texts from friends when they see a cool Jeep. Recently, I received a message recently from Autopian contributor and design-genius Carlos Ferreira showing a new Jeep Wrangler 4-door with its steering wheel on the right side. “Was just chatting with a gentleman parked next to me in a RHD Jeep Wrangler he bought new from a dealer. He said he had no idea why they had RHD jeeps but he got a decent discount,” Carlos wrote. “What the heck? He went into the dealership and decided to just drive on the other side of the car to save a few grand?” I thought.

This, I will admit, is a bit of a basic post, but hey, they can’t all be deep-dives. Did you know that Jeep still offers right-hand drive Wranglers for the U.S. Market? In fact, Jeep has been selling right-hand-drive Wranglers since the 2003 market launch of the Jeep Wrangler “Postal Unit” based on the Jeep Wrangler TJ.

Here’s a look at one for sale on Facebook Marketplace:

The JK followed, with right-hand drive offered only for two-door. Here’s a dirt-cheap, 300,000-mile one for sale on Cargurus — under $6000!:

By 2009, Jeep stopped offering the RHD two-door Wrangler, instead only offering four-doors. This, I would argue, is the first truly decent Jeep Wrangler postal vehicle, because let’s be honest: The tiny two-door rural mail carriers before were lacking in interior volume, as should be obvious by the huge box on the back of the white TJ shown above. Here’s a four-door 2009 Wrangler for sale on Facebook:

Still to this day, you can buy a Wrangler RHD like the one Carlos saw in that parking lot:

Here’s one for sale at Lake Elsinore Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram:

Of course, the TJ wasn’t the first postal Jeep ever, it was just the first Wrangler. The distinction of “first Postal Jeep” belongs to the CJ-3A-based DJ-3A “Dispatcher,” a two-wheel drive vehicle that hit the scene in 1955, and by the time it left the market in 1965, was the very last vehicle in the U.S. to use the Go-Devil that had become so legendary during WWII after being developed in the late 1930s.

After the DJ-3A came the DJ-5, and you know I have a special place in my heart for that vehicle:

One Jeep I think doesn’t get enough love is the one I like to consider the first truly useful Postal Jeep in that it wasn’t so dang short like the early DJs — the Alaskan CJ-8 USPS Jeep:

They’re fascinating machines, and I think it’s great that Jeep still sells the modern Wrangler in a right-hand drive configuration. Though I used to love my old DJ, that was just my fun car; would I want a right-hand drive vehicle as my daily driver? Probably not, if only because of drive-through annoyances. But I’m a cheap bastard, so enough of a discount could get me to change my mind. But how much of a discount… hmm.

Two things. 1st , I’m pretty sure the city of Milwaukee, WI uses RHD 2-door Jeeps as their meter-maid mobiles.

2nd, while a true working Jeep is awesome and makes me feel proud to be an American, I still don’t understand how a Jeep Wrangler is the right tool for the job. When I think Wrangler I think compromised. Compromised in space, safety, comfort, cost, and MPG. Compromised for good reason: off road capability. But rural mail carriers don’t need off road capability, they need efficiency.

Idk, maybe I’m wrong. But the rural mail carrier Jeep never made sense to me. If we could import the Toyota JPN Taxi, that’d be perfect.

1 SukhoiRomantic 29 minutes ago What I am interested to know is how the dealer manager or stock controller or whoever determines that a RHD Jeep in a LHD market makes sense. I’d be curious to know if Stellantis gave them a really good deal because for example Jeep is going through a rough patch here in Aus.

1 TheBadGiftOfTheDog 45 minutes ago The issue isn’t the RHD. The issue is it’s a modern Jeep with all the problems they come with.

1 Member Beachbumberry 50 minutes ago I always thought they were cool

0 H4llelujah 1 hour ago Trust me, they’re not discounted often

I’d say the only ones that are an actual deal are brand new ones, or ones that are just barely used, but still well into the $40,000 range. Because of the nature of the job (20 bucks an hour starting out, 50 to 100 a day to cover all of your vehicle expenses including fuel, and a job that by its nature requires you to beat the piss out of said vehicle all day every day)

Buying a new one is really only an option for carriers with a lot of years under their belt making closer to 35 an hour plus.

So that leaves the rest of us fighting over the privilege of spending a large chunk of our income to purchase and maintain either a 25 year old imported Japanese vehicle, buying a factory left hand drive vehicle and converting it, or buying a Chrysler product that has spent its entire life doing stop-and-go driving 6 days a week for hundreds of thousands of miles.

My current mail Jeep is a 2015 JK 4 door RHD, I bought it with 170,000 miles on it. I drove 6 hours to New York to get it, and paid $14 grand. It was the best option I could find for the money.

One year later, it is mechanically totalled, has 210,000 miles, looks like hell, and I still owe somewhere around 7500 on the loan.

But hey, she fires up and runs every day!

All that being said, if you find a great deal on one, don’t let the RHD scare you off! The only different parts are mostly limited to the steering linkage, pumps, lines, and brackets, and there is no shortage of parts. As for driving them, you get used to it in 15 minutes, and I swear it even gives you a weird advantage off road! It’s fun to see other lines that nobody seems to notice from the other side of a car.

7 Sarah C 29 minutes ago Reply to  H4llelujah One of the pluses I found was off the job, I wasn’t tempted to impulsively stop (RHD Subie Legacy) at fast food drivethrus. Otherwise you get used to driving from the “wrong” side pretty quickly. Tollbooths and keypad electric gates were definitely annoyances though.

But yeah, RHD vehicles that delivered mail usually work very hard.

0 H4llelujah 24 minutes ago Reply to  Sarah C Duuuuuuude that’s one of my favorite things. Backing up to a drive through window never gets old. People get a kick out of it.

And I would KILL to have a JDM car to do this job in, but my route is 2 trips a day loaded floor to ceiling with packages in a jeep. Even a CRV doesn’t have enough room for my route 🙁

0 Member Tong Thrower 1 hour ago My ’62 IH Scout was RHD. I only ever drove it once around the block. My ulterior motive for buying a RHD Scout was to salvage the left side window regulator out of it for my ’63. An $850 Scout netted me a $350 regulator right off the trailer!

One of the posties in my area has a RHD Subaru, there’s some other RHDs but they’re all Chrysler/Jeep products. Most of our posties just drive on the wrong side of the road.

1 Dogisbadob 1 hour ago Good for the US Virgin Islands, and also anyone else that wants that rad JDM street cred yo LOL

It was even available in Tuscadero pink when that color was available. I really hope some of the 30k Tuscaderos are RHD 😀

But if I wanted RHD I could depend on for postal use or other shit, I’d buy a Yaris Verso from the UK (RHD and speedo in mph)

0 Member Anoos 1 hour ago There is no discount hat would get me to accept the issues of right wheel steering and owning a Jeep at the same time.

That’s misery x misery. Misery ^ 2! Who would accept misery squared?

1 H4llelujah 54 minutes ago Reply to  Anoos Those of us who work for the postal service.

It’s misery x3 if you’re a fussybutt.

If you like an adventure and for every single day to feel like you’re flipping the bird to fate, death, common sense, and the entire internet’s perception of Jeep reliability, it’s not misery. It’s the best job in the damn world!

2 SukhoiRomantic 25 minutes ago Reply to  H4llelujah I’m interested to read that posties have to buy their own vehicle. It sort of makes sense but seems weird if US Postal service is a gov entity

0 H4llelujah 19 minutes ago Reply to  SukhoiRomantic Not on all routes, only rural offices that do not have enough govt. vehicles to go around.

10 miles down the road from mine is an office that has 9 routes, but 3 govt. trucks. The city carriers use those, rurals all drive thier own USDM Honda CRV’s.

10 miles the other way is Steubenville Oh that has like 10 Metris Vans and a half Dozen LLVs. Nobody there uses thier own vehicle at all.

Our office is a bunch of maniacs, we have three routes and we all drive jeeps because (I SWEAR) they’re the only thing that actually lasts AND can haul all the packages we get

1 Member LMCorvairFan 1 hour ago Cause that’s my fun car. Sometimes it even runs car, (Ooh-oh).

Not a jeep guy. Did two 550 mile one way ski trips to Lake Louise AB in December and February crammed into a Suzuki Jeep and a CJ. Never ever again!

1 Yanky Mate 2 hours ago speaking of wacky Jeeps, did you know there was a production Jeep called the CJ4? it was an extended wheelbase CJ3 made by Mahindra!

CJ 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmyKSR7qmDM this video is an incredibly good watch if you wanna know more about M&M

1 Studmuffin 2 hours ago Almost all of my driving is on a two lane highway. Most of it is littered with RVs, tour buses, and people driving rental cars hoping to see a moose/bear/caribou. Try to pass a vehicle while assessing oncoming traffic from the passenger seat.

To answer the question of how much of a discount would I require to buy a RHD vehicle? I’d say 85 – 90% dicount, or what I would call parts car.

0 Speedius 3 hours ago Back in the late 70’s/early 80’s, my uncle had a bronco rigged with two steering wheels connected by an accessory belt (watch those fingers, kids) and duplicate pedals connected by a custom linkage. He used it for rural mail delivery and driver’s ed. I was able to “drive” before I could even reach the pedals. Good times.

2 Member FormerTXJeepGuy 3 hours ago The XJ also had an RHD postal Jeep configuration for the era between the CJ/DJ and the TJ.

2 pizzaman09 2 hours ago Reply to  FormerTXJeepGuy Every so often my local mail delivery person still delivers in a very nice right hand drive Cherokee County in dark green with gold basket weave wheels.

2 H4llelujah 50 minutes ago Reply to  pizzaman09 They’re getting to be rare gems. A lot of us want them, but nobody will insure them for full coverage anymore due to age. The ones out there that are still really nice are mostly backup jeeps.

I had the exact one you’re describing, dark green, gold wheels, gorgeous leather interior, not a freaking scratch on it. I managed to roll it down a hill attempting to service a mailbox in a bad storm.

Just like that, the prettiest little XJ I’ve ever had was gone.

So you have to pay 5 grand for a VERY ROUGH example or 10-15k for a nice one, that you have to drive and work hard every day, and if some butthole slams into you and totals it, your just out of luck.

1 TDI in PNW 3 hours ago These are typically mail vehicles and there is no discount, they will cost you more. Contract mail carriers get preyed upon by one right hand drive dealer in particular, I can’t recall the name now.

3 Member James McHenry 3 hours ago Instead of a Discount, you can just drop it and put it on Watanabes and I’ll be all over it.