Jeep honours heritage with Wrangler Unlimited Willys

JEEP Australia has debuted the primary of its promised particular editions designed to have fun the model’s 80^th birthday within the type of the brand new Wrangler Limitless Willys.

Restricted to only 130 models nationally, the Willys will test into native showrooms subsequent month priced from $61,941 plus on-road prices and makes use of the just lately launched Wrangler Limitless Evening Eagle as its donor car.

Adorned with unique ‘WILLYS’ bonnet decals, distinctive ‘4 Wheel Drive’ badging on the rear, black radiator grille and using on black 17-inch five-spoke alloy wheels, the Willys proves to be greater than only a dressed up Evening Eagle, additionally coming with a Dana M220 rear axle pinched from the Rubicon which has been bolstered with an ‘anti-slip’ differential.

There are just a few additional trinkets inside too together with a silver-platinum instrument mid-panel and all-weather slush mats.

From there the remainder of its normal tools lists reads the identical because the Evening Eagle’s, consisting of LED exterior lighting, keyless entry, fourth-generation UConnect 8.4-inch touchscreen infotainment system with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, nine-speaker Alpine premium audio system, automated headlamps, push-button begin, 7.0-inch ‘driver data show cluster’, dual-zone local weather management and distant begin.

Below the bonnet resides the acquainted Pentastar 3.6-litre V6 petrol engine creating 206kW/347Nm channelled to all four-wheels through a selectable four-wheel-drive system.

The same old array of Wrangler off-road equipment is included too, together with underbody skid plates, wash-out inside, Selectable Tyre Fill Alert (STFA) system, Selec-Pace Management and a low-range switch case.

Jeep Australia model and product technique director Guillaume Drelon described the unique Jeep Willys Overland CJ-3A is an off-road icon and stated the model was excited to supply a contemporary equal honouring its legacy.

“Jeep homeowners have been capable of expertise the journey, open-air freedom and off-road functionality that the Willys has needed to provide since 1948, and that is no totally different in 2021,” he stated.

Jeep has bought 278 Wranglers up to now this 12 months ending February, marking a 39 per cent gross sales improve year-on-year and accounting for 1.8 per cent of the sub-$60,000 massive SUV market.

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