Our spy photographer has managed to point the lens of his camera at a striking test model from Jeep. It is a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited that hardly differs from the regular five-door version of the Wrangler. Until you see the doors.
If you wish, you can remove the doors of your Jeep Wrangler in an instant, after a little expert screwing. Both the three-door Wrangler and the five-door variant of the rudimentary off-roader, the Wrangler Unlimited, offer this option. Jeep hinted during the launch of the current JL-generation of the Wrangler in 2017 that there would be a version with ‘half doors’ in the long term, although that variant has never appeared to date. Yet Jeep seems to keep its word, as appears from the red test specimen that was caught this time.
Jeep Wrangler (Los Angeles Auto Show, 2017)
During the presentation of the current Jeep Wrangler, which took place during the Los Angeles Auto Show in November 2017, Jeep showed, among other things, a copy with small plexiglass ‘windows’ in stylish doors. This hint to the arrival of a Wrangler with slightly less conventional doors was given a more powerful sequel mid-last year. In July 2020, Jeep showed the Wrangler Rubicon 392 Concept (photo 8), a study model whose main purpose was to announce the arrival of a Wrangler with the now-launched mighty 6.4 Hemi V8 (photo 8). That five-door study model had frameless doors, and it is not without reason. On the brand new set of spy plates is a Jeep Wrangler Unlimited where the conventional doors have been replaced by ones without window pillars. You don’t have to sit completely in the cold, because Jeep gives the new variant canvas parts that keep you separated from the chilly outside world.
Jeep Wrangler (spyshots 2020)
Whether Jeep also equips the three-door Wrangler with the half doors, remains to be seen. With the previous generation Wrangler, the JK series, the Rubicon versions (both three and five-door) and the Sport flavor (three-door only) were optionally available with the quirky doors.