New Jeeps..sort of...

  • The first one looks like a Ford Focus.

    Member since 2000

    Jeeps Owned'79 CJ5:

    Specs-

    - 258 I6

    - '93 Cherokee fuel injection and HO head,

    - bored 30 over

    - with 4x4 cam

    T18 tranny with granny low / Dana 18 t-case

    Dana 44 front and back from late '70s Wagoneer, both locked and loaded with 4.88 gears

    SOA on modified YJ springs with shackle reversa

    Fiberglass tub with 6 point cage mounted to the frame


    2015 Grand Cherokee Limited
    Spec-

    Quadratec Floor mats

  • Quote from "Slimer"

    The first one looks like a Ford Focus.



    We traded a Focus wagon in on the KJ a couple of years back. It was actually a very handy vehicle, good mileage, fast (larger engine) for a small car, and comfortable. We loved it because it was lower to the ground, so getting our bikes and kayaks on top was easy. After the third accident, we traded it on the KJ...and the REST, as they say, is history!


    DrJ


    ...but I won't be buying another one...OR a Compass!

  • I say the first one is a liberty front, grand cherokee fenders, and a chevy trailblazer rear end. Guh, its still pretty ugly. Tell me what trails you can do with that lowered rider? :doh:

    1999 Grand Cherokee WJ 3" lift JK Moabs 31" tire
    1993 Grand Cherokee 7" Long Arm, Badgeless, SOLD
    1981 CJ-7 4" Lift, 31" MTR's, Pretty Blue

  • I just recently read an article in Motor Trend, and one of the Jeep execs was saying that there goal was to expand the whole line to appeal to the younger croud...


    who knows, maybe there have a subaru lookin thing sooner or later..

  • They're specifically going after a market without competition, the Subarus. The Forester has no equivalent (according to the article I read), and women are buying it like crazy.

  • Quote from "joo"

    I just recently read an article in Motor Trend, and one of the Jeep execs was saying that there goal was to expand the whole line to appeal to the younger croud...


    Yeah buddy....put a coffee can type muffler, some dubs, and you'll have a pimpin ride!

    Member since 2000

    Jeeps Owned'79 CJ5:

    Specs-

    - 258 I6

    - '93 Cherokee fuel injection and HO head,

    - bored 30 over

    - with 4x4 cam

    T18 tranny with granny low / Dana 18 t-case

    Dana 44 front and back from late '70s Wagoneer, both locked and loaded with 4.88 gears

    SOA on modified YJ springs with shackle reversa

    Fiberglass tub with 6 point cage mounted to the frame


    2015 Grand Cherokee Limited
    Spec-

    Quadratec Floor mats

  • The Compass
    -Cramped-up constipated Jetta wanna-be. "The cheapest versions of the Wrangler would then dissappear". Thanks, Crysler, there goes my Jeep.


    The Patriot
    -"Trail rated, despite it's car underpinning"....wow, they really know what Jeep admirers want!!


    Thanks, DrJ for the warning!

  • i have my jeep - and i love it. it does everything that i've every asked of it and then some. but somewhere along the lines of the mods that i've done to it i've lost about 7 mpg. my window sticker said 16/19 and i get around 10/12 now. given that fact i'd be willing to try something else to get me back and forth to work, part store, grocery store, and long road trips. the new compass and other concepts may not be what people are looking for in an off-road vehicle but they still say jeep and will still be supporting the model line. i'd drive one as a daily driver.
    chris (let the flaming begin)

  • Quote from "quadna71"

    i'd drive one as a daily driver.
    chris (let the flaming begin)


    For a daily driver it probably isn't too bad. I wouldn't buy it just because it said Jeep though.


    I'm still waiting for the Gladiator trucks to come out. :updown:

    Member since 2000

    Jeeps Owned'79 CJ5:

    Specs-

    - 258 I6

    - '93 Cherokee fuel injection and HO head,

    - bored 30 over

    - with 4x4 cam

    T18 tranny with granny low / Dana 18 t-case

    Dana 44 front and back from late '70s Wagoneer, both locked and loaded with 4.88 gears

    SOA on modified YJ springs with shackle reversa

    Fiberglass tub with 6 point cage mounted to the frame


    2015 Grand Cherokee Limited
    Spec-

    Quadratec Floor mats

  • the reason women like the subarus so much are as follows:
    easy to get into with a skirt,
    cup holders everywhere (thats reason enough right there ) :laughing:
    has almost as much ground clearance as a ford explorer
    ,short turning radius,(like a jeep)
    great gas mileage,
    all wheel drive,
    very cosey inside
    enough storage area to foget where you put something
    if you fold down the rear seat you can carry almost anything.
    all this ,according to my wife


  • A.K.A... a station wagon.

  • Quote from "Slimer"

    The first one looks like a Ford Focus.


    knowing someone who traded in their ford focus for a yellow jeep (his name will remain silent) i... he kinda likes the compass.......


  • you forgot "cooler than a mini van" and "hip version of a stationwagon"


    :D

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