Every year , the most loyal , batshit - harebrained Jeep fans get together in Moab , Utah for what ’s cognize as Easter Jeep Safari . Jeep celebrates the occasion by unveiling a badass new conception car – last year , it up its own ante in a liberal way withsevenconcepts , each and every one jaw - dropping enough to make you fail a doping examination for overweening testosterone .
This year ? It ’s the fiftieth Easter Jeep Safari , and also the 75th anniversary of Jeep . That means seven more designs , executed with preposterous levels of timber , each with its own unique spin on the past times and future tense of Jeep .
The Trailcat
conclude your eyes and imagine you ’re sitting in the number one wood ’s seat of aViper , and when you provoke up the locomotive , you see the pressurise rumbling of a Charger Hellcat ’s V8 . Open your eyes and short you ’re on a desert trail in a amply prepped Wrangler that ’s yell at you for a more liberal use of your correct foot to unleash all 707hp – which required a full extra foundation add to the Jeep ’s body to instal .
Yeah . The Trailcat is much more of a ambition car than the brilliantly disturbed engineers that built it likely actualize .
Jeep Crew Chief 715
The beautiful thing about this concept is that Jeep ’s guy cable did n’t make out when to stop . They had us atretro military homagebut kept on with inside information likeon - board melody compressorfor when nature strikes back . It ’s a complete beauty , inside and out .
Jeep Comanche
It ’s been a long , tenacious time since Jeep made its own pickup truck . Hence the Comanche – the front half of a Renegade with a pickup back , whose incongruity with the eternal sleep of the body somehow seems perfectly , and paradoxically , harmonious .
Jeep Shortcut
Why Shortcut , you inquire ? It ’s literally been chopped curt to pay protection to the old CJ-5 from the ' 50s . Those plaid seats do a passably good business of appeal the decennium as well … until you get them covered in clay , since the Shortcut has all the carrying out refinements you ’d bear .
Jeep Trailstorm
This one ’s for the Jeep fans who drive a Jeep the way God intended . The story features a rubberized coating in stead of carpeting , since carpetsucksto clean and jerk after a day drop off - roading . The doors are actuallyhalfdoors , so you get all the reward of no doors ( see big - ass rock when you ’re pilot between Boulder ) without all that extra dirt .
Jeep Renegade Commander
At first rosiness it might not look like much was done to this Renegade . But a 2 in ski lift and sight of undercarriage protection mean it ’s actually far better beseem to off - road use than a fortune of larger , flamboyant aftermarket landrover .
Jeep FC150
If this one look a minute more vintage than the others , that ’s because it ’s an original 1960 FC150 , baby-sit atop a 2005 horse wrangler chassis . As a result , it ’s revolve on much more modern capability than the original , despite the Graeco-Roman patina vibe .
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Aaron Milleris theCarseditor for Thrillist , and can befound on Twitter . He ’s digging the Trailcat . vainglorious time .
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