Our Wrangler sees pretty regular use as a jeep. When it rains hard, it's the only vehicle that can get to our house, for example. Also goes on forestry service roads quite a bit – those are far and away the shortest route to anywhere from here, but they're not passable by car or by many trucks.
We have nearly 250,000 miles on the thing, bought it used a little over decade ago with 50,000, and its KBB price today is $2k less than we paid for it then. It's factory stock with the exception of some multipurpose mud tires which help a great deal with the aforementioned hard rain events. No lift or anything stupid, and it can nearly climb a vertical brick wall as it is.
We've had some repairs, but nothing significant or expensive and so far nothing we couldn't handle ourselves. It doesn't have a truck bed, but it works quite well to haul a small utility trailer. We won't haul our big trailer on the public roads with it, not because it won't pull it - it will – but because it's too light to stop it with any considerable load.
Most Wranglers are toys. But some of them are tools, necessary ones even.
And yeah, I don't believe it came with carpet.
