The world is down yet another manual pickup truck today as Jeep drops the six-speed manual option from the Gladiator for its 2025 model year. This news comes just a day after Jeep made the manual the only available option for the 2025 Wrangler’s 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine.

Sometime during calendar year 2025, the Gladiator will receive the updated plug-in hybrid system of the 2026 Jeep Wrangler 4xe

That’s sad and perplexing as the only powertrain combination for the 2025 Gladiator is one that was recently killed off in the 2025 Wrangler. In that model, the 3.6-liter Pentastar V6 is now paired exclusively to a six-speed manual transmission as the eight-speed automatic is reserved for the four-cylinder, Hemi V8, and plug-in hybrid powertrain.

Jeep is throwing us quite a curveball with the 2025 Wrangler and Gladiator. On the one hand, they’re taking a page from the good ol’ days when manuals were king and power windows were a luxury. On the other,

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Jeep has updated the Gladiator pickup truck for 2025, and in doing so it has removed the six-speed manual gearbox option. Boo! Now, this may not seem like earth-shattering news, but it does mean that there is now only one pickup truck left on sale in the USA that can be specced with a manual gearbox.