2025 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Willys ’41 Special Edition Honors a WWII Hero

If Cars.com had built a tool that helped end World War II, we might also periodically remind people of that. Perhaps constantly — okay, definitely all the time. That being said, our reminders probably wouldn’t be as awesome as the 2025 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Willys ’41 Special Edition.

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Honoring the 1941 Willys MB — the Jeep forebear that carried American soldiers across the front — and directly descended from a one-off concept Wrangler built for the 2022 Easter Jeep Safari, the 2025 Willys ’41 special edition is mostly an appearance package based on the standard-production Willys trim level, although it borrows its steel front and rear bumpers from the much more hardcore (and more expensive) Rubicon X.

Honoring Heritage With Heritage

What makes the Willys ’41 special is not its olive drab-inspired paint; the color, called ’41, is available on any 2025 Wrangler. What is unique are the throwback-style 17-inch wheels painted in the same hue and wrapped in 33-inch all-terrain tires, olive drab fabric inserts on the dashboard and cloth seats in a tan shade Jeep calls Heritage. A tan cloth top will be available, as will a body-color hardtop and Jeep’s Sky One-Touch roof, a hardtop with a massive sliding cloth roof panel.

Accenting the ’41 paint are a matte-black hood decal with the year ’41 in relief and “Willys/4xe” decals on the sides of the hood in Drab Blue. Jeep stresses that this Drab Blue accent color is period-correct to the World War II Jeeps, saying “designers ensured that the color and style authentically replicate the utilitarian aesthetic of the era.” (Not to be pedantic, but the hood stencils on the original 1941 Willys MB Jeep photographed the ’41 special edition with are white, but this blue is cool, too.)

All of these special appearance cues are on top of the extra equipment added to the standard Willys trim, including an electronically locking limited-slip rear differential, rock rails that help protect the door sills while off-roading, and LED headlights and foglights.

Modern Plug-In Power

Jeep’s 4xe powertrain includes a turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder and a pair of electric motors to produce 375 horsepower and 470 pounds-feet of torque — that latter figure is as much twist as the 6.4-liter V-8 in the Wrangler Rubicon 392 Final Edition generates. With a 17.3-kilowatt-hour battery pack and an eight-speed automatic, the Wrangler 4xe can go up to 22 miles on electricity alone and gets an EPA-rated 20 mpg combined with regular gas alone.

Pricing and Availability

Priced from $61,825 (including the $1,895 destination fee), the Willys ’41 special edition carries a premium of $4,495 over the regular Willys 4xe trim level. You can’t put a price on freedom, but if you did, along with some Rubicon bumpers and a unique interior color scheme thrown in, that’d seem like a bargain to us. The 2025 Jeep Wrangler 4xe Willys ’41 is available to order now — as is the rest of the 2025 Wrangler lineup. Deliveries will begin in late 2024.

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