What news of the rumoured "all new Wrangler" due h

[cherrykee]

Anyone heard or read anything about this all new look Wrangler model due to hit our shores in just over a year?

now I am not being bitter you understand :lol:
but the SWB brigade will have to feel the pain us XJers felt watching our rigs drop 2K in value overnight.

[MattW]

Not really that worried, you lose more than that when you drive it out of the showroom for the first time.

[Jeeps]

Yeah plus the current TJ will be sold from dealers for years to come, even if a new swb is released. With the all the recent monies ploughed into the Rubicon and Unlimited and with the excellent response from consumers they'll just sell both. :mrgreen:

[H.G]

not if they are as ugly as those ute things

[Jeeps]

even those ute things would sell. :shock:

[H.G]

sure would.. and if I could put the TJ front end on it I would in a heartbeat.

[Jeeps]

i was talking about the Brute which already has the TJ front, what you talking bout' fool?

[JSSJeep]

According to SVM it will be December 2005.

[salesguy]

TK is due as a MY07.

So the Yanks won't get it until the middle of 2006. We should get it 3 to 4 months after that.

Who told you we'll have it in 12 months ? :shock:

By the way, XJs went UP in value when KJ came out. They only started to come back down again a good 18 months after the KJ release. I guess that's what happens when the replacement model is $15k more than the old one and in some ways not as popular.

[Ben]

Anyone got spy shots of this TK?

[JSSJeep]

Dec 05 is the LWB TJ introduction into Aust, according to SVM.

On the TK..from another source..

Platform code has changed to JK.
Will be built at the Toledo Jeep Plant.
Classified as truck.
Production starts in July 2006.

The previous rumor was that the platform had IFS. However, I heard a rumor that the Wrangler was "something that the Jeep community would love".

Other news: 4.0L is NOT being discontinued. Looks like it will be modified since production is being moved to another plant. It will receive a power boost. Since I heard that the Wrangler (JK) would have solid axles... this makes sense, since engineers from Chrysler say the Liberty would not have IFS if it wasn't for that 3.7L. Maybe the same problem happened with the Wrangler?

[Jeff]

Possible TK prototype:
http://bilder.autobild.de/bilder/1/58459.jpg

[H.G]

looks like they forgot to brake when driving into the garage.. erghhh
would make a cool hearse for all those rednecks out there though.. YEE HAW pa.. can we eat uncle joe now or later.

[TJ]

the look of the possible new one is good!
guess they had a few too many complaints about wet footwells though - no fold down screen! :o haha

[H.G]

pfffft I dont like change.. YUCK

[tj303]

Look at the departure angle :!:
Add the unlimited & rubicon version and a bit of a lift :!: 8)
I'd trade my TJ TOMORROW :!:

[H.G]

Ill behappy when everyone trades up to one of those ugly looking things..
lots of cheap parts :mrgreen:

[Jeeps]

i hope it has IFS front and rear... SERIOUSLY! :mrgreen:

[Fat Chili]

UGLY !!! BUTT UGLY.

[Jeeps]

yeah but your TJ is red too :mrgreen:

I reckon it's awesome AND it would be a great addition if it was sold alongside the other current models (cherokee, grand, wrangler) without removing the IFS TJ from the market.

[Jeeps]

All we need now is a ute to compete with the proton jumbuck :mrgreen:

[H.G]

dont knock the JUMBUCKs.. they are almost as good as the old brumby utes.. and they are awesome..

[goodie]

i like it. its something to look forward to when i grow up

[Nigel]

dont knock the JUMBUCKs.. they are almost as good as the old brumby utes.. and they are awesome..


but they forgot to add a diff in the rear, production line must be moving to fast.... :wink:

[Jeeps]

they're a bit pricey those jumbucks

[H.G]

hehe nigel.. thats why they arent quite as good as the brumbies.. :mrgreen:

[Steve_83]

According to SVM it will be December 2005.

Who is SVM???

[cherrykee]

Scuderia Veloce Motors in Sydney I would expect, up there in Artarmon from memory, or is it Lane Cove?

One of the "Blue Ribbon" Jeep Dealers mainly due to their positioning I would expect, although I believe they were one of the first Jeep Dealers in Oz.

Aint it amazing the useless s**t you pickup talking to Jeepers in your travels.

Happy New year, and may they RIP.

[salesguy]

"Blue Ribbon"??

As in ice cream ??

Mmmmmmmm ice creammmmmm...

SVM ( Scuderia Veloce Motors ) is just a clever marketing trick ( Italian name ) dreamed up by a couple of Aussies to make Subarus ( Japanese, right? ) seem exotic.

By the way, who was it at Scuds that told you this?

[Fat Chili]

Jeeps - you should get a Jumbuck, think of all that Pizza you could carry, definatly an improvement either over a bronze (last place) TJ...

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