Twenty Five Great Jeep Concepts From The Past

This week Jeep introduced some amazing concept vehicles, specifically the Mighty FC (Forward Control) and JC-12 concepts. All of us here at Hooniverse love them – they’re just amazingly awesome and we all want them, especially the FC. Unfortunately neither of those will ever be built.

While discussing if we should or shouldn’t run the pictures of those new concepts, which are now all over the internet, we have concluded that we should instead run pictures of Jeep concept vehicles from the past. You see, Jeep has a history of making fantastic concept vehicles none of which were even remotely intended for production.

After the jump we look at some of the many Jeep concept from the last two decades or so. All of us here prefer the production-ready concepts rather than production vehicles with aftermarket bolt-ons or wild-ass-hair one-offs. Those real-life concepts, such as the new FC, give a glimpse of what once was and what could have been.

This is not an all-inclusive list. In my research I have found many more Jeep concepts but their pictures were not always good or the concepts themselves were just insignificant, such as the Fender (as in the guitar) Jeep Wrangler. There is a number of horrid Jeep concepts in this list too – I left them in there intensionly in case you thought that the Compass is the worst Jeep ever.

My favorites from this list are the production-ready and tough J8 and the awesome Nukizer 715. I also love the expedition ready Wrangler Overland. Those latest concepts have been created by a team called “Mopar Underground” which is said to be Jeep engineers working outside of work hours. Take a bow guys, those are great. Too bad the bean-counters, industry experts, marketing specialists, and product managers will never allow these vehicles to see the light of day.