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Off-road lift kit for Jeep Wrangler 4xe is a plug-in hybrid first

Green Car Reports

Like its gasoline and diesel counterparts, the 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe will get a number of accessories under the Jeep Performance Parts banner, including a lift kit.

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The Jeep Wrangler Sends the V8 Off With a Bang

The Truth About Cars

Back in the early 1990s, when I was in high school, a friend’s dad owned an off-road parts distribution company, and we had a ton of fun with his Chevy big block-swapped Jeep CJ. Modified Jeeps are nothing new, but the automaker is jumping into the fray with a send-off model to honor the rowdy V8 it offered for the SUV’s last few model years.

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Jeep Gifts Wrangler Updates to Gladiator

The Truth About Cars

In what’s likely the most obvious move this year other than the Blackhawks taking Connor Bedard in the NHL draft*, Jeep has announced they are applying to the Gladiator nearly all the same updates its close cousin, the Wrangler, earned a few months ago. *Ed. Images: Jeep] Become a TTAC insider. Very good, then.

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Jeep sidesteps EVs with ICE off-road concepts, points to PHEVs

Baua Electric

At its annual Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, Stellantis’ Jeep brand has presented four new concept off-roaders. Among them, the lone plug-in concept among them was the Jeep Wrangler 4xe Willys Dispatcher plug-in hybrid concept that, according to the brand, provides “a mix of where the Jeep brand’s been and where it’s going.”

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Mopar Charges Into SEMA With “Electromod” Jeep CJ Surge Concept

Electric Cars Report

Mopar is charging into this year’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Show in Las Vegas with “an efficient battery-electric propulsion system of the future” called the Electromod Jeep CJ Surge concept.

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Big Meats: Jeep Offers 35-Inch Tires on 2-Door Wrangler

The Truth About Cars

If you’ve been putting off picking up a new Wrangler just because Jeep doesn’t offer the Xtreme 35 Tire Package on two-door models of the Rubicon and Willys, you have officially run out of excuses. Anyone popping for the $62,295 Rubicon X will get this gear as standard kit. Image: Jeep] Become a TTAC insider.

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Mopar Offers Parts to Build a Jacked-Up Jeep

The Truth About Cars

Owners of late model Wranglers and Gladiators can now jack their rides skyward courtesy of a new kit from the official Jeep Performance Parts catalog. The kit includes Bilstein-branded monotube shocks with remote reservoirs, increasing oil capacity of the suspenders for greater heat dissipation. .&

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