There has been a lot of rumor about a new Jeep truck (Gladiator) forthcoming. However, the dealers, and all press says it's just a concept at this time.

My wife swears she saw a Jeep Wranger Truck on the road today in Victoria. Said it had a small cab, and a truck bed on it. I'm thinking this was probably an "unlimited" with an aftermarket top that enlcosed the front seats.

Anyone know, or have seen, a Jeep truck yet? The earliest leads says this would be a 2012 at best.

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My wife swears she saw a Jeep Wranger Truck on the road today in Victoria. Said it had a small cab, and a truck bed on it. I'm thinking this was probably an "unlimited" with an aftermarket top that enlcosed the front seats.

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That would be my guess too. Unless it was someone that got a AEV conversion.

The latest is that the Jeep Gladiator:

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Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said in a roundtable discussion this morning that Jeep will introduce a “multipurpose” vehicle that will have a pickup truck-like bed in the back.

Talking about the Gladiator concept that was shown in Florida last year, Marchionne said, “I like that vehicle. I liked it the first day I saw it. There’s a better than 50 percent chance that you’ll get one. Regardless of what Ram says. They’re totally peeved off at the fact that we’re going to have anything that looks like a pickup truck with a Jeep badge on it. I actually think that there’s space for it.”

“So you just said yes to a Jeep truck?” one journalist asked. “I said [yes] to a multipurpose vehicle out of Jeep,” Sergio replied, “with something that they call a truck bed.”

Just don’t call it a Jeep pickup: “It’s an exotic within Jeep.” The reasoning behind this, according to Marchionne, is that the Ram brand is largely a North American name that has not been, in his word, internationalized. Jeep does not have that issue, hence the potential for a “multipurpose” Jeep with a pickup truck bed.

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Don't expect a diesel.

Would your wife recognize the difference in a Wrangler and an older CJ? Could it have been a CJ8 Scrambler--basically a CJ7 with a stretched wheelbase and a small pickup bed?


[This message has been edited by F W ag 01 (edited 1/28/2011 11:28p).]

those aftermarket tops for the wranglers (gr8tops) are modeled after the scrambler. guy that makes them owns www.cj-8.com

my guess is it is a scrambler or an unlimited with a gr8top.

Maybe it was one of the Jeep Comanches from the mid-late 80's?

this is a thread from a different board showing a bunch of customizations and such for wrangler style pickups

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=856210