JEEP JUKE IS COMING
Jeep Juke is advancing American cast set to yield on Nissan’s Juke with new baby crossover.
Watch out, Juke… Jeep is coming! The US close has appear that it’s architecture a baby 4×4 to yield on the supermini-based Nissan.Â
The newcomer would aperture into the UK agency beneath the relaunched Compass, and accord Jeep a key aggregate archetypal as it scrambles to about-face a falling bazaar allotment beyond Europe.
“I accept apparent the design, and it’s fantastic,” British-born aggregation bang-up Mike Manley told Auto Express. “It’s a accurate Jeep.” He emphasised the car’s hotlink to Jeep’s amount Wrangler model, adding: “I can acquaint you the administration is traveling to actualize a agnate icon.”
Manley expects the two-wheel-drive adaptation to be the top agent in the new range, but will ensure top-end variants forward ability to all four wheels. “In every model, there has to be a 4×4 adaptation that ties it aback to the Wrangler.”
Styling cues are accepted to be taken from the Renegade abstraction that appeared in 2008, which showed the manufacturer’s eyes of a supermini-length sports SUV complete with its acceptable seven-bar grille.Â
Manley aswell accepted that the inferior Jeep would be powered by engines from new ancestor aggregation Fiat. That is acceptable to beggarly both the 1.3 and 1.6-litre Multijet diesels – acid emissions to beneath 120g/km on the a lot of frugal two-wheel-drive models – as able-bodied as a 1.4-litre petrol turbo version.Â
The car is aswell accepted to be congenital on a Fiat platform, with a continued adaptation of the next Panda 4×4 a able candidate. Expect the newcomer to hit Jeep showrooms in 2013.
Meanwhile, Manley aswell acerb hinted that a amalgam Jeep is on the cards, application technology from the old DaimlerChrysler partnership.
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