Instagrammers Tear Apart Jeep Recon at 2025 LA Auto Show

by Tim Healey

Published: November 26th, 2025

instagrammers tear apart jeep recon at 2025 la auto show

Auto-show media days allow journalists to poke, prod, touch, feel, and inspect new cars. But we aren't supposed to tear them apart.

According to Car Revz Daily, Jeep busted the owner or owners of an Instagram account, The Middle Lanes, tearing up the interior of a Recon at the 2025 Los Angeles Auto Show. The post of them pulling the interior of Recon apart has apparently been deleted.

Engineers crawling over new models from rival brands has long been an issue at auto shows, but usually they just measure things. Apparently, the Instagrammers were taking pieces off of the interior.

Not only is taking apart a car that doesn't belong you to deeply uncool, these things are also hand built. So if you're trying to claim that build quality is poor, well, you're working with a way-too-easy target. Save that for production builds.

Jeep did put out a statement:

The actions taken to disassemble the all-new Jeep Recon on display at the LA Auto Show were both destructive and unprofessional. The vehicle in question is a pre‑production show car, built exclusively for reveals and events to highlight the Design inspiration for the final product. These prototype units are typically hand-built and not intended to demonstrate final production, durability, quality, or integrity of materials. The final production version will embody the uncompromising capability and authenticity Jeep owners expect and love.’

Those little scamps will hopefully learn their lesson.

[Image: Jeep]

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Zerofoo on Nov 29, 2025

The quality of everything seems to be declining....especially parenting skills.

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Bd2 on Dec 01, 2025

Wranglers are built like crap too but the meathead 5.11 racist trash driving them could never know

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