2017 Easter Jeep Safari Concepts: Photo Gallery
CARS.COM —Jeep unveiled a veritable Easter basket of concepts for April’s Easter Jeep Safari, the annual Jeep off-roading festival that brings thousands of fans to the try the trails around Moab, Utah. Jeep this week showed off the concepts in a pre-Safari display at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ Auburn Hills, Mich., Technology Center.
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The concepts, which range from cool to outrageous, also are rolling showcases for Jeep performance and appearance parts from FCA’s Mopar unit.
“Easter Jeep Safari is a must-do event for us, and it’s really a time when we let our engineers, our colleagues in Mopar and our stylists, our designers loose, and they literally go unsupervised – which you can see some years,” Mike Manley, global Jeep chief, told the Detroit Free Press. “For us, it’s like a true lab.”
The concepts included:
Jeep Grand One
The Grand One is a subtle update of a classic 1993 Jeep Grand Cherokee.
Jeep Safari
This Jeep-with-a-view features see-through vinyl “windoors,” a translucent roof and rear buckets turned outward.
Jeep CJ66
Making a return engagement is last year’s CJ66 that combine bits from generations of Wranglers.
Jeep Trailpass
The Trailpass is a dressed-up version of the new 2017 Jeep Compass Trailhawk just rolling out to dealers now.
Jeep Switchback
The off-road heavyweight is the Switchback with a 4-inch lift and an array of no-nonsense upgrades.
Jeep Luminator
The tech showcase is the LED-encrusted Luminator with high-tech lighting, such as underbody rock lights, and an array of spotlight systems, including one high on the hood that can scan for wildlife or hazards. It also features a rooftop solar panel – and its own lighted drone.
Jeep Quicksand
The loudest — in looks and in sound — is the Quicksand, a dune buggy with hot-rod details, a chopped-effect top and a Hemi V-8 with inject stacks and downturned open exhaust headers.
There were plenty of “Easter eggs” to find on the concepts, too, such as the Quicksand’s shifter knob with a Matchbox-style Jeep floating in clear acrylic.
