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No factory two-door Wrangler has ever shipped with more than six cylinders, and the factory 392 program keeps that streak alive: the 392 is a JL-generation vehicle, but Jeep offers it only in the four-door, not the two-door. The rumor mill long assumed the answer was fitment, as if a 6.4-liter Hemi simply couldn't be made to fit between the frame rails of the shorter truck. It can. The real reason is physics, and it is the same physics that makes a dirt bike loop out if you crack the throttle too hard.

Jaguar Land Rover reportedly wants into the American pickup market, and the vehicle to do it is a Defender-based truck built in the United States through the joint venture it's cooking up with Stellantis. That's the report from Britain's The Times, which pegs the U.S. pickup segment at $80 billion and frames the move as a fightback under JLR boss PB Balaji, who has already cut 4,000 jobs.

Stellantis is calling more than 200,000 Jeep vehicles back to dealers in the United States, this time over a tire-pressure monitoring system that reportedly isn't doing its one job.

Stellantis’ Street and Racing Technology (SRT) division has developed a working prototype system designed to eliminate turbo lag on its forced-induction engines. Called "eBoost Air," the technology uses an electric compressor to deliver instantaneous low-end boost, bridging the responsiveness gap before conventional exhaust-driven turbochargers take over.

We conclude our coverage of the Jeep Wagoneer today, and close out a series that began in February. Last week, we reviewed sales and pricing details for the SJ Wagoneer in its long run from 1963 to 1991. Today we take a look at the same information for other types of Wagoneers Jeep offered to various levels of success from 1984 through today. It seems that since the '80s, Jeep pretty consistently underestimated the attachment owners had to the SJ Wagoneer, yet overestimated the draw of the Wagoneer name when applied to other vehicles. 

Today we reach the concluding entries in the Wagoneer series. We’ve run through the entire history of the Wagoneer name: From its introduction in 1963 as a new type of midsize utility wagon from Kaiser-Jeep, to its current usage on a behemoth of a full-size luxury SUV and a temporarily cancelled compact EV CUV. For our final two installments, we’ll cover the available sales data and pricing information for all the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer variants: SJ, XJ, ZJ, WS, and the STLA Large.

I loved it and drove many of its competitors recently, including the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid Woodland, Mazda CX-5, and Honda CR-V.

We have reached the sixth and final episode of our series. By 1983, things were looking great for American Motors and its French partner, Renault. But soon it would all unravel ... 

During the first four years the new Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer were on sale, Jeep shifted around engine options but left the exterior unchanged while it worked on branding plans. At its 2026 refresh, the base Wagoneer was eliminated. Soldiering on alone was a revised Grand Wagoneer in regular and L long-wheelbase flavors, stripped of some equipment at lower trims for price parity with the cancelled Wagoneer. The exterior edits also removed Wagoneer branding from the front and rear, as Jeep gave up on the idea of Wagoneer as a standalone sub-brand. Today we’ll talk about a casualty of that abandoned sub-brand idea, the Wagoneer S.

If you’re looking to “Buy American” then head to the nearest Tesla store because the Model 3 and Model Y are the most American vehicles money can buy in 2026, according to the 2026 Cars.com American-Made Index.

Over the past two weeks we took a deeper dive into the blocky exterior details of the 2022 Jeep Grand Wagoneer and its yacht-violin inspired interior. The Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer would have entered their fifth model year in 2026, accompanied by a refresh. However, Jeep celebrated the occasion by dropping the most popular model of the two.

Everything old is new again at Stellantis these days, the most recent example being Jeep revealing two new Grand Cherokee variants for the 2027 model year: Trailhawk and Overland.

The 2026 World Cup kicks off this weekend in cities across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico millions will be rooting for their home country. In the U.S., George Washington may be the most passionate fan of the U.S. men’s team ever as a win by the host country could win him a 2026 Jeep Wrangler.

Jeep has decided to recall more than 1 million Wrangler and Gladiator models that pose a potential fire risk. Based on documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the potential hazard persists even when the vehicle is not running.

Prior to the highly anticipated relaunch of the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer there were several years of delays. Some of those were the fault of FiatChrysler and Stellantis: It seemed they could not decide the product’s positioning internally, nor upon which base the large SUV was to sit. Other delays to launch were global in nature, as the COVID pandemic occurred at the approximate time Stellantis wanted its new product to debut. But the new Ram-based SUVs finally made it to market in 2022, and their exterior styling was (and is) the cause of some debate.

I'm always happy to find obscure special-edition vehicles during my junkyard travels, the rarer the better. Today, our Junkyard Find is one of just 2,821 Freedom Edition XJ Cherokees sold for the 2000-2001 model years, now residing in a car graveyard near the Tesla factory.

After the unsuccessful relaunch of the Grand Wagoneer nameplate on the ZJ platform in 1993, the storied model name was put on ice. The years rolled by as SUVs of all sizes continued to gain popularity and morph into the adjacent Crossover Utility Vehicle (CUV). This was great news for Jeep, which saw its sales increase throughout subsequent two decades. During that time the Grand Wagoneer name was not entirely forgotten: Various projects aimed at resurrecting a Grand Wagoneer came and went but never moved past the ideation stage. But that was about to change.

To fight the growing wave of imported cars, AMC launches a quirky new subcompact car: the Gremlin. And despite his colleague's protest, CEO Roy Chapin Jr. the Jeep Corp., bringing AMC to the 4WD market. 

Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa stood up before the company’s investor community Thursday morning to reveal a new nearly $70 billion strategic plan dubbed FaSTLAne 2030. If it works as predicted, it will accelerate the company’s growth and pad its bottom line.

Jeep introduced its new midsize Grand Cherokee in 1993 to great fanfare. The family SUV segment was about to explode, and Chrysler’s offering was right on time. Suburban families eagerly snapped up the Grand Cherokee, but there was an additional and exclusive version on offer as well, and it wore a storied nameplate. The Grand Wagoneer returned!

In our last Jeep Wagoneer installment, we reached the end of the line for the antique SJ Grand Wagoneer. Designed with user-friendly roots and launched in 1963 with relatively few frills, it soldiered on through 1991 and concluded its run as a wood-clad beast of burden with a luxurious interior, a carbureted engine from 1970, and the aura of desirability among its wealthy customer base. Jeep’s new owner Chrysler was eager to recreate the Grand Wagoneer magic, and did so as soon as the Grand Cherokee launched.

We return to the Jeep Wagoneer in 1987 and its 25th anniversary. As the Wagoneer remained on sale in its dated but popular guise, parent company AMC was at death’s door. Under ownership by Renault, AMC was in massive debt as the Renault-AMC lineup of cars proved unsuccessful. Chrysler stepped in during March to purchase AMC-Jeep for a huge sum, assuming all of AMC’s debt from Renault. On June 20, 1987 the American Motors Corp. ceased to exist, and was renamed to Jeep Eagle Corp.

Hey hey, it's podcast day!

Stellantis secured a five-year deal with Microsoft to have the software giant help the automaker develop more than 100 AI-base initiatives aimed at improving driver safety, cybersecurity, and engineering efforts.

Jeep had its only all-new product debut since the Sixties when it introduced the compact XJ Cherokee in 1984. Designed with packaging and fuel efficiency in mind, the unibody Cherokee was a departure from the way SUVs were traditionally designed. Also launched with the new Cherokee range was an all-new Wagoneer.

Today we've got a clean-looking, twenty-year-old 2006 Jeep Commander for you.

Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa recently said the company’s recovery plans were working, and the automaker’s first quarter shipments to dealers back it up. The company sent 1.4 million vehicles to dealers worldwide — at 12 percent jump compared to year-ago numbers.

Last year, Jeep promised to deliver twelve “buzz models” designed to hype the brand and help offset some of the recent pricing cuts. These are appearance packages, with the most recent being the 2026 Wrangler and Gladiator Rewind. The duo are clearly inspired by exterior graphics that were semi-common during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

As we learned in our last Wagoneer installment, the SJ weathered the storm of the first (1973) and second (1979) oil shocks. The latter of which forced AMC to reinstall an inline-six and a manual transmission into its luxurious utility wagon barge, to advertise a lower cost of entry and better fuel economy figures. After more than 20 years, AMC was ready to move on from the Wagoneer entirely, and had a plan to do so which it implemented in 1984. Welcome to the new XJ.

Jeep’s been looking to find ways to draw buyers back to its Grand Cherokee premium midsize SUV, and after offering a new pricing structure in January, it’s now striking at the heart of Jeep’s core customer — off-roaders — by offering a Trailhawk model.

We return to our Wagoneer coverage today at a turning point in the greater automotive market. The introduction of the lower-priced Jeep Cherokee in 1974 allowed Jeep to push the Wagoneer into more luxurious territory, an effort cemented by the arrival of the Limited trim in 1978.5. A few months later all Jeep vehicles were restyled with a new front clip, bringing the lineup to a more cohesive and modern appearance for the ‘79 model year. But world events during 1979 would change the course of automotive history and pull the rug from under the Wagoneer in some ways.

It's just about time for the annual Easter Jeep Safari in Moab.

After their purchase of Jeep in 1970, American Motors began diversification of the newly acquired brand’s product line. The company saw the potential in Jeep for a much broader offering of passenger utility vehicles: Utility wagons, recreational utility vehicles, and trucks. The former two would gradually converge together in nomenclature to be called SUVs, a term Jeep created in 1974 when it marketed the new Cherokee (an SJ Wagoneer derivative). Part of the product diversification was refinement of the Wagoneer platform and experimentation with luxury trims after the Super Wagoneer failed to see much success. In 1978 AMC launched a new luxurious Wagoneer trim, and this time it worked.

Every year, Jeep heads to Moab to showcase some concepts. This year marks the 60th year the brand has done so.

In our last Wagoneer installment of Rare Rides Icons, we began the journey through the frequent and sometimes confusing updates Jeep made to its flagship utility wagon. Edits to the SJ Wagoneer began in 1964 and continued through the end of its life at the 1991 model year. However, the most important change to the Wagoneer occurred as a side-effect of Jeep’s ownership. We pick up in early 1970.

Today's recall alert involves the 2024-2026 Jeep Wagoneer S.

Fans of those mid-1970s Jeep CJs with the denim interiors get to enjoy a flashback with the brand’s newest special edition offering the 2026 Wrangler Rockslide edition, which features a Jean Blue interior.

The Jeep Wagoneer had an unusually long run for a passenger automobile, and successfully spanned across four decades. Though it was in production from the Sixties into the Nineties, the SJ Wagoneer had but one generation. As mentioned in the last entry where we covered the original interior details, there were many changes inside, outside, and underneath through the decades. Oh, and Wagoneer invented the luxury SUV in 1966.

It appears that Jeep has paused production of at least one model for a couple of weeks.

Today's UCOTD is a 2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee EcoDiesel in Overland trim.

As we reviewed in our last installment, the exterior design of the Jeep Wagoneer was a notable thing at its debut in 1963. The design emphasized its wagon nature rather than its truck underpinnings, which set it apart from the competition. Like the exterior, the interior was designed with daily livability in mind and was less basic and utilitarian than contemporary utility wagons.

Have you ever tried to build and price a Jeep Grand Cherokee online and found your head spinning at all the trim choices? If so, Jeep and Stellantis will be happy to show you that the 2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee and 2026 Jeep Grand Cherokee L have a simplified trim walk.

Oh, and they'll happily tout the new Hurricane engine, as well.

After a hiatus of three model years, the compact/midsize SUV is back at Jeep -- meet the hybrid-only 2026 Jeep Cherokee.

The Jeep Wagoneer debuted in 1963 as a new kind of utility wagon, designed with everyday ease of use and practicality in mind ( Part I). As a midsize truck, it was smaller and had better handling than its competition. Wagoneer even featured an automatic transmission on four-wheel drive models, a novelty at the time ( Part II). But perhaps most important for its success was the clean-sheet design of its wagon body.

I am in Southern California to drive the 2026 Jeep Cherokee and the updated Jeep Grand Cherokee.

The folks at Stellantis sure do like special editions, the latest being the Jeep Wrangler Willys 392, the fourth of a dozen specialized vehicles that are part of the Twelve 4 Twelve collection, honoring the iconic Wrangler.

We return to the Jeep Wagoneer (here’s Part I) this week for a dive into its chassis, running gear, and other particulars. From the get-go the Wagoneer was designed with families in mind: It was slightly smaller than competition from Suburban and Travelall, lower to the ground, easier to get in and out of, and better equipped as standard. Jeep built the Wagoneer as an advancement of its Station Wagon product from the Forties, but was a clean sheet design with some very innovative thinking behind it.

Today we have a well-cared-for 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 for your perusal.

Super Bowl LX took place last night. And as per usual, several car companies plunked down money on ads.

Mega money, of course.

Which car ads were good? Bad? Meh?

The original Jeep Wagoneer persisted over two decades, and was produced by three different owners of Jeep as it became an SUV icon known around the world. As the largest SUV of the Jeep brand, it began with simple utilitarian roots like all off-road vehicles of the time. Eventually it was edited, updated, and glossed into the first true luxury SUV the world had ever seen. Unlike most of our Rare Rides Icons the Wagoneer persists today, but as a very different kind of vehicle than it originated. We begin in the Forties, with a station wagon.

Stellantis N.V. officials revealed the company will post a net loss when it reports its full-year earnings later this month, due to a $26.2 billion charge it took as part of a strategic “reset” it began in the second half of 2025.

Stellantis has issued a recall for 2021-2023 Jeep Grand Cherokees.

Stellantis is killing off the 4xe in Jeeps and the Chrysler Pacifica Plug-In Hybrid.

Where did a promising attempt at electrification go wrong?

A new report from The Drive indicates that the current Jeep and Chrysler plug-in hybrid models are dead.

We do occasionally feature project cars in this series, and that is the case with today's 2000 Jeep Wrangler.