Skip to footer

Jeep concept hints at new Wrangler pickup

Jeep is hard at work developing a new Wrangler, one that’s expected to be larger yet more fuel efficient than the current model.

|
Tsering Topgyal/AP/File
The Jeep logo is seen on a vehicle at the Auto Expo in Greater Noida, near New Delhi, India, (Feb. 3, 2016). Jeep is currently developing a new Wrangler model.

Jeep is hard at work developing a new Wrangler, one that’s expected to be larger yet more fuel efficient than the current model.

The new Wrangler will also spawn a pickup bodystyle, as confirmed by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles [NYSE:FCAU] CEO Sergio Marchionne earlier this year.

Now we have an idea of what the new Wrangler might look like, specifically in its pickup bodystyle.

Speaking to the adventure gurus at Outside, Jeep design boss Mark Allen said he hid “hints” of the new Wrangler in the Crew Chief 715, one of seven concepts built for the recent Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. The Crew Chief 715 is based on the current Wrangler Ultimate but features a bed out back and heritage styling cues throughout.

“We’re finally going to get to do a pickup truck,” Allen said in reference to the Wrangler pickup. “I can’t explain too much but there may be things you see on the Crew Chief that you might see on that truck.”

Allen also pointed out that this was Jeep’s first pickup concept with a crew cab configuration, which suggests that the upcoming Wrangler pickup will feature four doors.

The heritage cues, such as the slanted nose and stamped tailgate, aren’t likely to make it over to production, though. Allen said Jeep is moving away from retro design.

Production of the new Wrangler is expected to start at the current model’s plant in Toledo, Ohio in 2017, meaning we should see it arrive as a 2018 model. It’s not clear at this point when the Wrangler pickup will arrive.

This article first appeared at MotorAuthority.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Jeep concept hints at new Wrangler pickup
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2016/0321/Jeep-concept-hints-at-new-Wrangler-pickup
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe