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The Jeep Recon concept (which looks exactly like the production Recon) debuted in 2022 while Chris was there meaning this is a Chris-era vehicle although it's worth noting Chris spent his whole tenure at Stellantis doing interior design. To that point, it takes a team of designers to create a modern vehicle, it's not just one guy.
 
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chucchinchilla said:
The Jeep Recon concept (which looks exactly like the production Recon) debuted in 2022 while Chris was there meaning this is a Chris-era vehicle although it's worth noting Chris spent his whole tenure at Stellantis doing interior design. To that point, it takes a team of designers to create a modern vehicle, it's not just one guy.
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I had a feeling he was involved because the steering wheel design. But scouts wheel looks more defined.


Still though, we have snagged a Legendary designer!
 
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I feel like the Recon is Jeep’s way of making a Future Wrangler without the name Wrangler attached to. Mind you, Jeep will also make a Wrangler EV at some point but why have 2 cars that are almost identical to each other when you can have 1 I.e. an Electric Wrangler.
 
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Prior to the Scouts being announced, I was very interested in the potential of the Jeep Recon.

As it is, the photos/general vibe of it really haven't done much for me.

I have no problems with it being "not a wrangler", with a future wrangler EV coming as well. To be honest, they have needed something like that ever since the Cherokee and Grand Cherokee lines drifted further from "core Jeep DNA". Something that isn't "hardcore rock crawler", but more of a "any weather/any thing meant to be a 'road'" sort of vehicle.

But with this being fully independent suspension all around, and now showing a pretty low ride height (and small/short wishbones, at least from what we can see in the spy photos), I'm not sure how offroady it will "actually" be.

Also, the removeable doors seems like an odd thing to toss onto a vehicle like that. Not many people do that with Wranglers, which should be the core group most likely to do it. The further you get away from that, the less sense it makes to me.

I drove a Wrangler (well, it was my dads, when I was in High school, so I drove it occasionally), and we wheeled it together. We never took the doors off. We DID remove upper half of the half doors, since those were easy to remove/small enough to put in the rear of the jeep once we got to the trailhead. But removing full doors for offroading? Its a lot more work.
 
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