Jeep Trailhawk (2007): first official pictures

By Tim Pollard

First Official Pictures

09 January 2007 04:14

Looks pretty mean. Will they build the Jeep Trailhawk?

Not in this motor show flight-of-fancy guise, but the new Detroit show concept informs us of how the new Cherokee could look. Jeep staff openly predicted that the front half of the Trailhawk would influence its next-generation 4x4. The new Cherokee is due in the first half of 2008; it'll share its platform with the new Dodge Nitro.

Although they'll share their basic mechanical package, the cheaper Nitro will be more road-focused, doing without the next Cherokee's low-range gearbox and hard-core 4x4 system. DaimlerChrysler's plan is for the Jeep products to remain rugged, go-anywhere devices, whereas the Dodge brand will be more attainable, majoring on attitude and value for money as much as mud-plugging ability. Hence this Jeep Trailhawk concept. It does look like it could demolish most obstacles in its way, as its name implies...

By Tim Pollard