The picture is pretty blurry, but this homemade Jeep Cherokee pickup posted to the Cohort by Big OldChryslers caught my eye because the result is so similar to the Lada pickup from yesterday. Which raises the question: if Jeep had never stopped making the Cherokee, would there still be buyers for it like there are for the Lada Niva?
Making a pick up out of a vehicle that was available as a pick up?
I know that was a Comanche and not the Cherokee but still, its like making truck out of a Blazer.
The Jeep Comanche pickup is pretty rare around here. A guy on my street has one, but it’s the only one I’ve seen in a long time. A friend of mine was looking for one to buy. I know he even stopped to chat with the guy down the street about his. Eventually gave up on finding a Comanche and bought a Ford Ranger.
Your friend got real lucky there. The Ranger is 100x the vehicle, IMO.
He was already driving a Cherokee and had a parts truck sitting in his driveway too, so he had a vested interest in sticking with the same platform.
Looks neat but I bet it’s a Boulevard Bruiser. The first rough patch off road would stuff those 35s right up into the sheet metal.
“if Jeep had never stopped making the Cherokee, would there still be buyers for it”?
Lots of them. They still sell Wranglers. Don’t they.
Ah Jeep the American Lada, pretty common phrase here bro but the yank one sucks the gas unless you buy the diesel one.
Sadly, we only had the Diesel from 85-87 here in the States.
…and it was only a wimpy 85HP Renault turbodiesel. Export XJ’s in seemingly every other market were available with a much better/bigger VM Motori unit. Wish we got that one here…
I had a 1st Gen (KJ) Liberty with the later 2.8L version of the VM I4. It was a great motor trapped in a mediocre vehicle. The rest of the world can purchase a Brand new Wrangler Rubicon with it, but we don’t get it here.
That was because they stuck with the 4 liter straight 6 for far too long. A revived Cherokee could be powered by a 2.4 liter 4 and would get good mileage.
I was on my way to work when I spotted this rig sitting at the end of a driveway. I’m glad I turned around to take pics. It was gone when I came back in the evening, and I haven’t seen it again since.
Bu Jeep never stopped making the Cherokee in the rest of the world! Although the “Cherokee” we get new in New Zealand is the Liberty with Cherokee badges glued on… But a quick check of my Chinese car guide shows that the original Cherokee is still manufactured in China – in original and updated versions – the updated one features a Grand Cherokeeesque nose. The original was exactly the right size and style though, I miss it, and yes, I’d buy one.
I think you’d find a whole Lada buyers for the Cherokee if it were to be brought back. Almost bought one myself several years ago. The XJ might have been the last great new American SUV design that was actually pretty competent off-road (and it was designed before anyone called them “SUVs”. It was a Jeep.)
The 1st two makes of the Grand Cherokee (ZJ and WJ) had an axle in front and can be made into strong trail rigs on a limited budget.
stop looking at my jeep and snapping sneaky pics. btw all you fools dont know shit. those arent 35’s and you know nothing about my suspension.
also: you cut the cherokee trunk rather than buying the pickup version BECAUSE the pickup version looks like poop in my opinion. this does not.