Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

The Jeep Gladiator has already won a fair amount of hearts and minds in the US, but those people still on the fence will surely fall into line after seeing these…
Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

Jeep likes a good concept vehicle. It also likes to go nuts with the official parts catalogues, and for this year’s Easter Jeep Safari in the Moab desert, the Gladiator has spawned six brilliant new ‘concepts’ you really could build yourself.

Starting this Saturday, Jeep enthusiasts from all over the world will converge on the eight-day Easter event, the 53rd time the technical off-roading event has been run. It’s the first time the Gladiator has been publicly available for the challenge, so it looks like Jeep called Mopar and asked for everything it had…

Wayout

Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

The Wayout concept is designed for going, err, way out into the wilderness. Its most obvious feature is a roof-top two-man tent placed nice and high out of the reach of anything that thinks you’re a midnight snack.

There’s a two-inch suspension lift, 37-inch mud tyres, a 12,000lb (5.44-tonne) winch and a snorkel to make wading and mud-plugging easier for the 3.6-litre Pentastar V6 and eight-speed automatic gearbox.

The Gator Green body is armoured, but there’s a slight weak spot in the shape of two neatly-integrated fuel tanks in the shape of Jerry cans, placed within the bodywork above and behind the rear wheels.

Flatbill

Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

If your dual passions are Jeeps and motocross, you’re in luck with the Gladiator Flatbill. A ‘rowdy’ design clothes what Jeep calls the ‘ultimate hauler for an array of toys.’ It comes equipped to transport two off-road bikes in its load bed, complete with fold-out ramps for loading and unloading.

For some reason it has a vented carbon bonnet (or hood, if you insist) with high-clearance wheel arches and specially shortened front bumper/skid plate assembly for an improved approach angle. A tubular rear bumper provides a better departure angle at the back. Combined with a four-inch suspension lift and 40-inch tyres, the Flatbill is a proper go-anywhere animal.

M-715 Five-Quarter

Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

Either someone at Jeep is really bad at fractions or the Five-Quarter concept is a nod to Jeep trucks of the past that went by the same name, which was inspired by their 1.25-tonne (five-quarter-tonne) load capacity. Based on a 1968 M-715 but resto-modded with carbonfibre front end bodywork, a six-foot aluminium load bed, xenon headlights, a more modern suspension system, new axles and 40-inch tyres.

The seats come from the latest Wrangler but without headrests, while the consoles are trimmed with aluminium components cut by high-pressure water jets. The engine is one of the key highlights, though. Under the carbon skin is a supercharged 6.2-litre ‘Hellcrate’ Hemi V8 with over 700bhp. We think we could live with this.

J6

Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

The J6 is all about performance trucking. Classic Jeep truck styling meets a swathe of concept and production performance parts to create a two-door utility truck with a 12-inch longer load bed compared to a standard Gladiator. The Metallic Brilliant Blue paint tips its cap to the 1978 Jeep Honcho.

The bed is protected by a clever prototype ‘spray-in’ bed liner. Standing over the bed and the 37-inch spare tyre within it is a light bar of four five-inch LED spotlights. There’s a two-inch lift, a two-inch stinger bar and rock rails bolstered by two-inch steel tubes. You can mount extra lights on the stinger bar, and all the auxiliary lights are connected to a dedicated interior switch.

JT Scrambler

Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

You won’t find much unique about the JT Scrambler’s makeup apart from its looks, which are another throwback to Jeep heritage. There are 37-inch tyres with a two-inch suspension lift, an LED light bar with extra, diffused bulbs to illuminate the load bed, and a couple of even brighter forward-facing LED lights on the nose.

Gravity

Check Out These Six Awesome New Jeep Gladiator Concepts

The Gladiator Gravity is a rock-climber. Exclusively using parts available at the Gladiator’s launch, this V6 Rubicon-spec truck is painted Punk’N Metallic Orange with a layout of crossrails in the load bed that can carry a special cargo carrier basket.

The doors have been swapped for two-inch tubular steel frames, the roof is open and the leather seats, while a bit of an extravagance for a functional Jeep off-roader, feature the Jeep ‘grille’ logo. Handily, there’s a unique ‘plug’ system in the floor to allow for the direct draining of water and mud.

Which is your favourite? In which one would you want to tackle the Easter Jeep Safari in the Moab desert?

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Comments

BL4CKF0X

Nice Fiats.

04/09/2019 - 09:26 |
8 | 38

Bro what? In what world are these related to a Fiat other than they are under the same group?

04/09/2019 - 10:35 |
10 | 4
Anonymous

Those are sicccc

04/09/2019 - 09:59 |
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Anonymous

I WILL TAKE YOUR WHOLE STOCK OF EVERYTHING!

04/09/2019 - 11:35 |
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RIP_Fish

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04/09/2019 - 12:44 |
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RIP_Fish

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04/09/2019 - 12:44 |
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The Stigs Homeless Cousin

These look like a lot of fun…

04/09/2019 - 14:35 |
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Sebastian Sohlberg

I need a wayout

04/09/2019 - 15:16 |
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Joseph 'The Hound' Knight

Roof tent = Want

04/09/2019 - 16:26 |
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My Name is Joel

My heart still goes out the Jeep Brute with its 6.4 Hemi V8. This is more than a concept though.

04/09/2019 - 16:34 |
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Nobody

I’ll take the J6. Usable as a truck but still has a reasonable length and proportions.

04/09/2019 - 18:54 |
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Olivier (CT's grammar commie)

I’d already seen the J6, but I still think it’s the closest thing to a regular cab Gladiator it’s going to be. And as such, it deserves to be the best one there.

04/09/2019 - 19:56 |
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Anonymous

I like the rear, but the thing I don’t like about the Gladiator is front. It’s just so uncreative! I don’t get it. It seems so lazy.

04/10/2019 - 11:32 |
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