A few Renderings - Dodge, Jeep, a Chrysler or two.

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Some of you who are at allpar have probably already seen them; but I'm dropping 'em here regardless.

For Jeep, we'll start with my personal favorites, the Grand Wagoneer. A refresh. Lighting, and a D-pillar fix mostly.

Original image is first, as usual.


Now onto the refresh with a paintjob. Again, you'll notice it really wouldn't take a ton of work to get the Wagoneers looking more Wagoneer. Brought the bumper up in the back to create a longer visual line, along with adding in the 70s style 'wood-grain' instead of the full-crate that lots of 80s fans adore. The fact of the matter is, full-crate looks bloody stupid on a modern car. I switched up the headlight shape a bit to give it a slight retro callback to the original grille shape. And most obviously, I did the D-pillar in similar shape to the original. I also did the chrome and colored in the B&C pillars.


And taking that a step further, I lifted it and changed the lower bumper for a more trail-worthy stance; adding in the 'cateye' fogs with covers & winch ala' Power Wagon. If these are Ram-based, I think they should have at least one trim that acts like it.

 

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The next one, is far less complicated. A Renegade made out of a Recon.
Here's the Original image, I'm sure you all are familiar with:



And the baby brother, adding the 'blade' styling that was unique to Renegade, as well as changing the front clip to something a little squarer, isolating the signals from the headlights unlike Recon. Tail lights I kept because Jeep seems to be running with the X thing that Renegade started. My apologies for the loud wordmark but people steal my renderings sometimes. I got tired of it. lol

 

[suzq044]

Next I'll show you a few variations of the Jeep Avenger. One Dodge, one Chrysler.
First, of course, you know the Jeep variation:


Now to add a little Dodge flavor.


Then bring it back to Chrysler, though obviously I haven't finished this one yet. I tend to bounce around when I'm working on things so sometimes they don't always get finished. lol

 

[suzq044]

Sometimes I just think that Dodge's design crew spends too much time trying to differentiate just for the sake of it. In the case of the ICE Charger, it just reminds me of braces for some reason. I also think of the people that'll be driving these years on and have these faded pieces of plastic, so.. starting from the original as usual:



An LX SRT grille swapped into the new ICE Charger. I looked at a few photos of the ICE Charger, and that top grille is not for airflow. It's just a plastic accent piece with no function to it.

 

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Next, we come up the timeline to Compass. Just playing with this one, really. I didn't even lift it. Just gave it the American-Market red hooks, a beefier wheel and tire package (From Wagoneer S Trailhawk) with some graphics added for fun.

 

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Speaking of Wagoneer S -- or it's very close brother, Cherokee. I swapped in the Wagoneer S Trailhawk's lower valance since they are very closely related vehicles; simple change, makes a lot of difference, IMO.



Makes it less busy up front, anyway.

 

[suzq044]

Back to the Compass, this time, making it a Dodge.


And to make it a little more Dodge. Cleaned up the sides and corners, took cues from a concept almost nobody's seen to give the headlights some personality, and then lowered it a little.

 

[suzq044]

And the last one -- A recon headlight & grille flip. I have disliked the Recon's front signature look since the first time I saw it. It was too Chinese-Cherokee looking for me. Like a knock-off. I thought it was just the grille being shorter than the headlights, but that alone just made it look goofy. So - I flipped the shape of the signals over. That tiny little change, made all the difference.



A little less Tonka Toy and a little more beefy Jeep, just from a grille and headlight shape change.

 

[Mopar426]

You can only do so much to help the Grand Wagoneer or Recon. I think both should have been totally different designs from the start

 

[suzq044]

You can only do so much to help the Grand Wagoneer or Recon. I think both should have been totally different designs from the start

I like what I came up with; it's a simple refresh, and it still brings the retro cues that people wanted.

That said - It could've been a Chrysler. Obviously I never finished this one, but the idea is there. It 100% could've been a Chrysler Aspen and sold.




And I don't see anything wrong with Recon. Most of it is pretty good to me; it's the grille-light ratio that bugs me.

 

[TripleT]

Do a big 300 x pacifica style grill