The Last JK Jeep Wrangler
With JL Wrangler manufacturing absolutely up and working, it is time to say goodbye to the JK.
Manufacturing of the brand new JL-generation Wrangler started late final yr, however Jeep saved churning out the previous JK for a number of months afterwards. On Friday, the final JK Wrangler, a white Rubicon Limitless, rolled off the road at Jeep’s Toledo, Ohio plant and into Fiat Chrysler’s assortment. This automotive caps JK Wrangler manufacturing at an unimaginable 2,165,678 items because it debuted in 2006.
That the final JK Wrangler is a four-door is kind of applicable. As nice tales from Jalopnik and Automotive Information individually level out, the four-door Limitless helped remodel the Wrangler from area of interest providing to certainly one of Jeep’s hottest merchandise. With the addition of rear doorways, the Wrangler was all of the sudden a sensible automotive within the eyes of tons of patrons.
Gross sales of the JK simply saved including up over its 12-year manufacturing run, with US gross sales peaking in 2015 with over 200,000 items. Seeing gross sales like that years right into a automotive’s life is extremely uncommon on this enterprise, and loads of that’s because of the four-door, and speciality fashions just like the Rubicon which saved issues contemporary. All that, plus the rugged attraction of the Wrangler.
The JK Wrangler is an enormous a part of why Jeep is certainly one of Fiat Chrysler’s crown jewels right now, and the admittedly a lot improved JL seems to be to proceed the place the JK left off.
Now that JK manufacturing has ended at Toledo, Jeep is retooling the manufacturing unit for the arrival of the Wrangler Pickup. Jeep says manufacturing of the Wrangler Pickup will start in early 2019, and we count on to see it make its debut late this yr.
