Jeep J12 Concept: First Drive - Jalopnik
Ask any young boy to name their coolest car, they'll likely pick a Jeep or a truck. And I drove it in it's off-roading debut at the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah earlier this week. Full-size Jeep pickups or Jeep Wrangler pickups disappeared from Detroit's lineup after 1988, but the Chrysler-owned division's history-minded design team seems intent on bringing it back in classic form. Pricey JK8 Wrangler-to-pickup conversion kits directly from Jeep have been around since last year's Safari (and AEV's been building the amazing Brute conversion kit for years), but this week marked the eye-catching, bright red J12's first public... True masters of the past, Jeep's design team said they wanted to create something that looked like that old truck your grandpa took fishing all the time. The old Kaiser facade is familiar and likeable, and by lovingly recreating the long-departed truck's facial details, Jeep had scores of people fawning over their concept truck at the 2012 Easter Jeep Safari this week. It turned heads wherever it went around Moab's extreme Jeep-packed streets, looking like something Clint Eastwood's character, Walt Kowalski, in Grand Torino would have been comfortable. Source: jalopnik.com
