Jeep Adds Sunrider Flip Top for Wrangler Hardtop as Factory Option

Jeep is adding another choice to the Wrangler's extensive roof options: the Sunrider Flip Top for Hardtop from Bestop—that's a lot of "tops"—the company that's served as the automaker's exclusive soft top supplier for decades. In this case, it's a quick-opening panel for hardtop Wranglersand Gladiators that mounts over the front two seats.

The standard Wrangler hardtop normally has two removable hard panels—called Freedom Panels becauseAMERICA—in that location; the Sunrider Flip Top replaces them with a single, weathertight swath of soft fabric that can be unlatched and tossed backward in seconds. (Bestop markets the unit as simply Sunrider for Hardtop, but Jeep appears to have added Flip Top to the name for clarity among its many roof offerings.) The Flip Top includes mounting rails and hardware for DIY installation, or customers can have it handled by their local Jeep dealer.

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Bestop offers the Flip Topfor $750 or $850 for both the Wrangler and the Gladiatordepending on material; the cheaper option is "Black Diamond," a more plasticky fabric, while the pricier version uses black twill. Jeep will offer only the latter material but will also give both Wrangler and Gladiator buyers the chance to score the new lid, albeit at a price of $895. It seems the cost of convenience in this instance is $45.