Jeep opens Name the New Wagoneer contest...Runs to December 2, grand prize a $40,000 ski trip for four

Autoblog ^ | Nov 27th 2022 at 1:00PM | JONATHON RAMSEY

[ETCM]

Old Wagoneers are very desirable nowadays.

I had an old Grand Wagoneer that eventually became strictly recreational. Lifted, lockers, interior roll cage, etc. Now it seems Hollywood must own 90% of them since I see them more in movies and on TV than on the road. Along with the "Full Sized" Cherokee, they were iconic. When Jeep announced the return of the Grand Wagoneer a couple years ago I was sure they would do it justice, like the returns of the Mustang, Challenger, Camaro, Bronco and other iconic vehicles. Instead we got a repeat of the Dart 10 years ago, with all the retro style of a brick.

So, a name for a Jeep that you can't really take off road, and claims to be green while powered by coal?

The Grand Illusion.

[rlmorel]

“The Jeep BoatAnchor”.

[kosciusko51]

Jeep Wildfire.

[rlmorel]

Hahahahaha...having put over 100K miles on an MG Midget, I vouch for the authenticity of that anecdote!

[rlmorel]

"...Jeep Wildfire..."

Hahahahahahahahahaha! I like that one!

[usconservative]

I bought a 96 Cherokee Classic for my high school son to drive. So happy I bought it as the Jeep is easy to work on due to its simplicity.

Exactly right! I could do all the basic maintenance myself -- and I did.

It was the last vehicle I've owned that I could do that.

[equaviator]

The “Sheep Jeep”

[Ann Archy]

The grill looks like British TEETH!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I had a 1976 CJ7 and it was great fun. A buddy and I drove it from the San Fran Bay Area to Durango, CO to go skiing with another friend. The cabin heater was so anemic and the ragtop leaked so much air that our water bottles froze INSIDE the truck.

It gradually started losing power and, over a few weeks, go so bad it would hardly run. I found a pinhole leak in the head gasket which was blowing hot gas directly onto a vacuum hose, burning a hole in it. The exhaust gas then got sucked directly into the vacuum hose, changing the mixture. It was my very own self-grown exhaust gas circulation system!

There was nothing like it for runs through the redwood forests to the ocean with the top down on a summer day.

The yutes in East Palo Alto discovered I kept it in my driveway and thought it was a great source of spare parts. One time I came home from a business trip to find my entire front bumper and KC Highlights off-road lights gone. My wife never noticed. After another business trip, the Jeep sounded weird when I started it. I lifted the hood and found they had helped themselves to my air cleaner.

[Charles Martel]

Anthracite (’cause that’s where the electricity comes from).

[Getready]

The Superfluous Wilderness Strander EV.

[Red Badger]

Taco?...................

[NorthMountain]

Tacoma ...

Or, as the rest of the world calls it, HiLux.

[mewzilla]

Eugene!

[Red Badger]

OH! I thought it was a misspelling of Tahoma!.............

I see Tacoma trucks all over the place and I wanted to get some peel-n-stick letter ‘N’ to put on teh tailgates so it would read TACOMAN........

[Sirius Lee]

The cabin heater was so anemic

Really? My Wrangler, and later the TJ (when they brought back the round headlights) had great heaters. Insta-heat, as soon as you crank over the engine.

The Toyotas I run are dependable and rock solid on and off-road, but you need to drive them a couple of miles before anything resembling warm air starts to flow.

[kosciusko51]

😁 Thanks

[red-dawg]

When I was younger we had a station wagon.

Now Jeep has created the Stationary Wagon.

[PeterPrinciple]

After the war in 1945, Willy’s wanted to produce the Willys MB for civilians. However, the nine-slot grille was Ford’s design, so Willy’s couldn’t trademark it. So Willys subtracted two of the nine slots to make it a seven-slot grille and this was enough of a change to get a trademark. By the end of the year, Willys had produced the Willys CJ (Civilian Jeep) and this became the face of the Jeep brand.

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The continent idea is after the fact thinking. No one even knows for sure the origination of the word jeep. There are several theories.

[NorthMountain]

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