GM HX Concept Lives Again

[nocturnalVX]

It will be another soccer mom mall crawler. It will not steal the Wranglers thunder due to a lack of a solid axle up front.

Yup, because anything with IFS is complete crap.

[ZEUS]

They say the 2017 Wrangler will be IFS. If so it will be easy to compete with the Wrangler. I see plenty of lifted, pretty, shiny JKs around Utah that never even seem to be taken off road so it is possible Jeep will go that route & still sell plenty. I personally hate that idea but would love it if the HX finally saw the light of day. Still... I would not buy either.

[VXorado]

They say the 2017 Wrangler will be IFS.

I've heard that too...

BUT, it's clear Jeep is doing things right on the Wrangler side. In November, I was in Moab without the VX and we decided to rent a Jeep. It was a 2013 two door Rubicon with a small lift, 35s and had 15K miles almost all trail . We ran Hello Kitty Canyon and it was great all around. My ONLY complaints were the stock windows in the doors sit very high and the hood is long making it hard to see the trail around you.

There's no reason to change much on the new JK, maybe just a facelift. It's clear they have accommodated the 4 wheeling crowd and appealed to the highway, bling crowd. The solid axles make the Wrangler unique to all of the "other" options. I'm shocked another company doesn't was to compete more by building a competing rig with a front solid axle.

[Triathlete]

Yup, because anything with IFS is complete crap.

Not what I said at all...however most off roaders that drive jeeps do so because it has a solid front axle and an ifs vehicle will not draw them away.

[Mile High VX]

More tantalizing speculation:

http://blog.caranddriver.com/gmc-con...-w-renderings/

[nocturnalVX]

That is VERY Amigo/Rodeo Sport looking...