Most automakers have homeowners. Jeep has followers.
When you might have homeowners, the closest you come to a themed vacation is a sequence of TV commercials promoting reductions below a advertising identify you made up for a month.
When you might have followers, you’ll be able to invite them to an annual occasion they usually’ll present up. Each spring, Jeep brings hundreds of off-road lovers into Moab, Utah – dwelling of a few of America’s finest vehicular trails – to the annual Jeep Easter Safari.
They arrive in their very own Wranglers and classic Cherokees for group rides. However Jeep additionally brings alongside a group of one-of-a-kind new toys to indicate off.
2024 is a little bit of a tamer 12 months for Safari-goers. Jeep introduced simply 4 ideas to this 12 months’s occasion (down from seven final 12 months).
Jeep Wrangler Low Down Idea
As soon as they’re completed displaying off an idea, many automakers park it in a warehouse someplace and overlook about it. Jeep tends to carry older ideas to occasions time and again for years – a approach of protecting religion with the huge tuner neighborhood that modifies Wranglers for enjoyable. So, a Jeep idea is usually a recurring hit.
The 2009 Decrease 40 Idea is a success. For that one, Jeep put a giant 5.7-liter V8 below the hood of a Wrangler and match enormous 40-inch mud-terrain tires. However they saved the trip peak at manufacturing facility stage with deep fender cuts.
The Low Down is an homage to that mannequin. This time, it rides on 42-inch beadlocks below high-clearance carbon fiber fender flares.
“The inventory Wrangler Rubicon 392 suspension stays intact, however Dana 60 axles with 5.38 gears substitute the usual Dana 44 axles with 4:10 gears. Between the diameter of the tires and the shortening of the entrance and rear bumpers, the Low Down’s middle of gravity stays low, whereas the bottom clearance, breakover, and method and departure angles all get dramatic will increase,” Jeep says.
Painted Poison Apple Purple, it makes use of the 475-horsepower 6.4-liter 392 V8 engine Jeep is retiring this 12 months.
Jeep Willys Dispatcher Idea
For this mannequin, Jeep took its most fashionable powertrain and gave it a classic vibe.
The Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid turns into the Dispatcher with Tremendous Traxion 36-inch tires “wrapped round vintage-style 16-by-7-inch alloy steelies.” The bumper is a brand-new customized setup designed to appear to be a traditional and maintain an 8274 Warn winch.
It’s all painted in Component 115 Inexperienced – an Easter egg shade – with the windshield header in gloss black. Inside, distressed saddle leather-based and houndstooth fabric inserts give it an old-school really feel. Jeep additionally pulled off the headrests for a traditional look.
Jeep Gladiator Rubicon Excessive High Idea
The Jeep Efficiency Elements division at all times brings a couple of ideas of its personal to Moab. This 12 months, they begin with the Gladiator pickup. It makes use of the three.6-liter Pentastar V6 engine and a TorqueFlite 8-speed computerized transmission.
The Excessive High is painted in a Ginger Snap and gloss black scheme that can remind a few of you of Eighties cassette tapes. That theme continues inside with quilted tan and black leather-based seats.
It rides on 40×13.5R18 BFGoodrich All-Terrain T/A KO3 tires mounted on 18-by-9-inch Satin Black KMC Grenade Crawl beadlock wheels.
Flat fender flares give a number of clearance. “Unstoppable Dana 60 entrance and rear axles with matching 5.38:1 gearing and an AccuAir adjustable air suspension assist make straightforward work of any severe off-road tour.”
American Expedition Autos gave it a customized entrance bumper with a protecting hoop for the Warn winch. Within the mattress, the Decked storage system accessible from Jeep Efficiency Elements offers it twin sliding drawers.
Jeep Vacationeer Idea
The Grand Wagoneer will get some Moab love with this mint inexperienced overlander. Wooden-look graphics on the edges nod to classic Wagoneers.
It rolls on 35-inch BFGoodrich mud-terrain tires with bigger wheel openings to accommodate them. Roofline-mounted Tyri LED lights present the path at night time. However it’s the RedTail Overland Skyloft roof-mounted pop-up tent that can get many of the consideration.
Jeep eliminated the second- and third-row seats to make the rear into dwelling house. You may entry the loft with out leaving the SUV. The tent is climate-controlled, with photo voltaic panels to offer among the energy for the setup.
“Energy within the Jeep Vacationeer idea comes from the three.0-liter Hurricane Twin Turbo 510 engine, delivering 510 horsepower and 500 lb.-ft. of torque,” Jeep says.
Inside, “The Jeep model turned to famend dressmaker and Wagoneer fanatic/proprietor Kiel James Patrick for the entrance Tupelo leather-based seats.” They function a New England plaid dotted with silhouettes of the sort of traditional Jeep automobiles that present up in Utah for Easter.
