Posted on 11/29/2022 8:00:30 AM PST by Red Badger
At the end of October, Jeep brand President Christian Meunier told Motor Trend that Jeep was in search of just the right name for the battery-electric Wagoneer S. The people who come up with names had "a few in the basket," but Jeep planned to get help from the community for more ideas via a contest to launch this month. That contest is called Name the New Wagoneer and it is now official. All one has to do is head to the website, enter a few identifying details, enter a name of 50 characters or less, and submit it to the Jeep gatekeepers who live in the ether. Meunier had said the brand would provide suggestions and direction, it doesn't look like that's the case. We didn't test the system for boundaries, but the only limitations we saw in the contest rules explain entries must be original, cannot have won a previous award or been previously published, and — we're paraphrasing here — need to be suitable for polite company.
We're shocked at the character limit. Including spaces, it's long enough for the name, "Fifty Characters? A Crazy Long Name For A Jeep SUV." The phrase, "Want Some Candy? Come Check Out My Sweet Jeep EV" leaves two characters on the table, while the longest word in an English dictionary, "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis," leaves five characters on the table, just enough room to call it the "Jeep Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis." The length isn't unprecedented, however, considering the 2016 BMW Individual M760i xDrive Model V12 Excellence THE NEXT 100 YEARS and the second-gen Land Rover Range Rover Evoque 2.0 TD4 E-Capability 4x4 HSE Dynamic.
You can inspire the muse of naming with the Wagoneer S specs, the most potent version coming with dual motors making a combined 600 horsepower and a 3.5-second scoot to 60 miles per hour. Kinder driving is anticipated to return a 400-mile range. Standard four-wheel drive and a terrain management system will tackle chunky portions of any route.
The contest ends December 2. Contest rules say only permanent legal U.S. residents who have reached the age of adulthood in their state can enter. The grand prize is immortality and a ski trip to Jackson Hole Mountain Resort for four, which includes airfare, lodging, lift tickets, rentals, guide or instruction, and a $1,000 gift card to the retail store, the package valued at $40,000. Good luck. Jeep will open reservations for the vehicle that goes by the winning name in early 2023.
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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.
“The Jeep BoatAnchor”.
Jeep Wildfire.
Hahahahaha...having put over 100K miles on an MG Midget, I vouch for the authenticity of that anecdote!
Hahahahahahahahahaha! I like that one!
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.
The “Sheep Jeep”
The grill looks like British TEETH!
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.
Anthracite (’cause that’s where the electricity comes from).
The Superfluous Wilderness Strander EV.
Taco?...................
Tacoma ...
Or, as the rest of the world calls it, HiLux.
Eugene!
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........
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.
😁 Thanks
Now Jeep has created the Stationary Wagon.
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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