I am just out of the Geneva car show and I had to take a few pics of that "Jeep"....
My socks are down...am speechless....
UPDATE:
not to be misunderstood, I find this new Jeep quite amazing:
It is the first new-born since the presence of the Italian in the management. Jeeps' body and engine size are an increasing source of problems in Europe with the raising number of histerico-ignorant green guys. So the size of the Renegade and the choice of engines it will come with is pretty cool for us.
Of course I don't think that even the Trailhawk, Trail-Rated version, will have strong enough skid and high enough ground clearance to follow a well prepared KJ (like mine
).... But I trust it will be able to bring us though all European bad roads, snowy passes and dirt trails. I just hope that this version will not be limited to the US...I remember (actually the wife did reminded me this) that during the now discontinued EuroJeep Camp, 2088 edition in Germany, a Team from Jeep US had presented a concept car called the Renegade. the idea was to have a small gasser engine used to produce electricity to power 4 electric motors that were located at each wheel.... really amazing, we were excited. Can you imagine the torque, the power and the motricity of electric motors on each wheel ??!!!
Here is a link: http://www.jeep.com/en/autoshow/concept_vehicles/renegade/
Then, Fiat bought the brand and we never heard of the project , (and the EuroJeep Camp was dead...= the only communication program of customer fidelity in Europe...)
Back to the new Renegade. The interior looks very nice, kind of latest Wrangler but more fun. And it seem that all models will be equipped of a retractable sun-roof.
Looking forward to test drive it !!!
