Jeep, owned by the Sterile Corporate Monolith Stellantis, found itself fuming over a TikTok video that dared to show the brand’s slow-motion collapse in full, unfiltered glory. Today’s “American” Jeep is little more than a badge-engineered Peugeot, and with that comes Peugeot build quality, which is charitable phrasing on the best of days.

So at the 2025 LA Auto Show, two TikTokers wandered onto the Jeep stand to inspect the Recon EV—an SUV priced at a delusional $65,000 for reasons known only to Sterile Stellantis’ marketing department. The duo from The Middle Lane immediately spotted build-quality issues everywhere they looked.

In the video, they literally peeled off interior trim that was hanging on by little more than hope and double-sided tape. The clip went viral, racking up over a million views, which inevitably attracted the attention of the Sterile Corporate Monolith itself. Sterile Stellantis scrambled to claim that the Jeep Recon in the video was a “pre-production model,” as if that magically excuses the fact that the thing was shedding parts like a moulting pigeon.

Frankly, these guys deserve a medal—no, a gold medal—for exposing just how lifeless and creatively bankrupt the Sterile Corporate Monolith Stellantis machine has become. And you can bet the corporate chequebook will now swing into action, paying off whichever media outlets are desperate enough to hand the Recon some meaningless, trophy-shaped participation award.