2026 Jeep Grand Wagoneer: Just as Nice as Ever
Key Point
- The new 2026 Jeep Grand Wagoneer is just as nice as the outgoing one.
- The three-row SUV’s sleeker styling and easier-to-understand trim levels should boost its competitiveness.
Jeep is deep into a rapid rethink of its lineup with a focus on better affordability and more logical product placement, and the new 2026 Grand Wagoneer was a prime target for the new effort. Gone is the regular Wagoneer; the Grand Wagoneer has a nicer interior, more standard equipment and a base price that brings it down to around where the outgoing Wagoneer started. The Grand Wagoneer has also received some updates for the 2026 model year, so we had a look at one on the floor of the 2025 Los Angeles Auto Show to see what Jeep has done.
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Just as Nice as Ever
- Takeaway: The 2026 Jeep Grand Wagoneer gets updated front-end styling and a lack of chrome on the exterior.
The most notable differences to the ‘26 Grand Wagoneer are in the front-end styling, which gets a cleaner, more futuristic look that resembles the all-electric Wagoneer S SUV with which it shares the showroom floor. A newly sculpted grille with seven-slot light signatures is front and center, flanked by new headlights and LED daytime running lights on either side of the front bumper. It’s an attractive, modern look to the front end and updates the Grand Wagoneer’s style in ways that will likely prove popular with buyers.
A lack of chrome down the sides is something Jeep is working to implement on all of its new models, and it works well on the big SUV, with darker materials helping to give the look a more sinister look. Overall, the new Grand Wagoneer’s freshening is a win, maintaining its distinctiveness while toning down the more unusual styling elements it debuted with a few years ago.
Interiors Never Needed Help
- Takeaway: For 2026, the Grand Wagoneer gets new colors and material choices, as well as a larger head-up display.
The interior of the new Grand Wagoneer isn’t all that different from what’s in the outgoing model, it’s just received some updated color palettes and material choices. There’s also a big new full-color head-up display, which is nice, but the three-row SUV’s interior never really needed any help — it was always one of its strongest selling points.
Luxurious in its top trims to the level of a Cadillac Escalade or even a Land Rover Range Rover (no, really, they’re that nice), the high-spec Grand Wagoneers are beautiful — but even the lesser-spec ones benefit from top-notch materials choices. “Basic” versions of the new Grand Wagoneer are still beautifully appointed, very well equipped and loaded with useful tech. And now that they’re all a little less expensive (when compared to the prior mix of Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer), they’re even more appealing.
The Big News
But the biggest news for the 2026 Jeep Grand Wagoneer is something that doesn’t really show up on an auto show floor: the range-extended electric-vehicle version that’s showing up later in 2026. Featuring a big lithium-ion battery pack combined with a simple 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine acting solely as a generator, it should provide big power and big range to the Grand Wagoneer. We’re very anxious to give this one a try sometime in the new year.
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