Jeep Pickup Truck Finally on its Way?

We've been told many times in the past about Jeep's so-called plan to build a pickup variant of their wildly popular Wrangler. Ever since the automaker revealed the Gladiator concept back in 2005, Jeep fans everywhere have literally been begging for it to reach production. Jeep management has been interested in doing it, but parent company Chrysler's financial issues prevented its development. Instead they made the wise decision to build the Compass and Patriot (note the sarcasm).

In order to keep people satisfied, however, Jeep enlisted the help of Mopar to build an aftermarket conversion kit called JK8 which converted a standard Wrangler into the closest thing to a pickup. But now that Chrysler's books have been sorted out, it appears that the Jeep pickup is back on track. According to a report from Car Advice, Jeep president Mike Manley told them that a Wrangler pickup will be coming "pretty soon....probably the next generation." Expected sometime around 2015 or 2016, the next-gen Wrangler is still in the development phase and a number of issues are still being sorted out.