All rights reserved. More on this:. Car reviews:. Born out of necessity and forever enshrined into the Automotive Hall of Fame, the Jeep brand is the purveyor of many summer dreams for a lot of us. Some of them included visions of late-night beach quests into an open-top Renegade. Others were all about rock-crawling adventures or quick dune-bashing road trips. Well, this Jeep CJ-7 could be just a Renegade impersonator, but we feel it might also have the right qualities to fulfill all of the fantasies mentioned above.
The Jeep CJ models are a big part of the current Stellantis heritage , and they lived a long and fruitful life from way back in and up to A midyear addition to the lineup, the Unlimited stretched the vehicle 13 inches, adding needed passenger and cargo pace.
More importantly, it expanded sales and laid the groundwork for the first four-door civilian Jeep in , which expanded sales further. The Wrangler was always meant as an off-roader, but the Rubicon took it its prowess to the next level.
The Rubicon first hit the market in and added lockable front and rear differentials, four-wheel disc brakes, an off-road suspension, and knobbier tires, but it really came into its own with the introduction of the JK model in It also benefited from heavy duty front and rear Dana 44 axles with a 4.
Jeep offered the Rubicon for both the standard Wrangler and the Unlimited, which become a four-door for Jeep channeled its history with the Willys Wheeler package for the JK. In terms of capability, it split the difference between standard Wranglers and the Rubicon with its knobby tires, rock rails, and limited-slip differential.
Jeep built the Willys Wheeler through Jeep returned to the pickup truck market with its long-awaited Gladiator. The truck hit the road in mid riding on a lengthened Wrangler platform with beefed-up axles and a pickup bed behind its open-top crew-cab body. The automaker offered a single-day pre-order program for the first 4, examples a contrived reference to the area code in Toledo where the trucks are built.
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