Jeep has just taken the wraps off the Wagoneer line of vehicles and it has also taken the wraps off the 2021 Jeep Grand Wagoneer concept that will start it all for the brand. This big, off-road luxury Jeep shares a platform with the RAM 1500 pickup truck, but comes with a stack of luxury built into it. Paul Maric takes you through 5 of the coolest features fitted to the all-new Jeep Grand Wagoneer concept. What do you all think of it?
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Intro: 00:00
What is the Grand Wagoneer?: 00:14
1- UConnect 5: 01:29
2- LEDs: 02:30
3- Roof: 03:30
4- Interior: 04:08
5- Plug-in Hybrid: 05:56
Verdict: 07:08
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Skip Ahead:
Intro: 00:00
What is the Grand Wagoneer?: 00:14
1- UConnect 5: 01:29
2- LEDs: 02:30
3- Roof: 03:30
4- Interior: 04:08
5- Plug-in Hybrid: 05:56
Verdict: 07:08
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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul, Joop has just taken the wraps off the Grand Wagoneer Concept and my word
00:05 is that this looks very much like the final product.
00:08 Today I'm going to take you through five cool things about the Grand Wagoneer, but before
00:12 we get started I will run you through an overview of what exactly this all means.
00:17 Now what is the Grand Wagoneer?
00:19 If you are like some of the Australian viewers that are watching this and have never heard
00:22 of this before, think Breaking Bad, it was the car that Skyler drove around in, the wood
00:26 panelling on the side, it is the bee's knees of Jeep products.
00:31 The Wagoneer brand name will become part of a portfolio of vehicles for Jeep and it will
00:36 use the Grand Wagoneer Concept here as something that they're going to launch it all with.
00:41 There will be likely a smaller version called the Wagoneer coming as well.
00:45 The platform of this car is going to be shared with the Ram 1500, but it won't ride like
00:50 the pickup truck that it's based on.
00:52 This car will have independent front and rear suspension, but still be massively capable
00:57 off-road which is what Jeeps are all about.
00:59 Now let's talk about the delays here.
01:01 So it was meant to be released in 2013, but series of delays and postponements meant that
01:06 it was pushed back to 2019.
01:07 There were then further delays which pushed it back to 2020, then COVID struck and instead
01:12 of being released this year we're only seeing the concept right now and production won't
01:16 start until next year at the earliest.
01:19 And finally, it'll be built in Detroit, Michigan alongside the Ram 1500 that it shares a platform
01:24 with.
01:25 Now let's get stuck into the five cool things about the new Grand Wagoneer.
01:29 First up Uconnect 5.
01:31 Uconnect is of course the infotainment system that's used across a number of FCA cars and
01:36 Uconnect 5 is the latest iteration of this.
01:39 It's based on an Android operating system and it was revealed earlier this year in 2020.
01:44 It contains six gigabytes of internal storage and it can then be further expanded with flash
01:48 storage up to 64 gigabytes.
01:51 It has five times more processing power than the last generation and I mean if you've used
01:57 the last generation they're actually pretty quick so I'm excited to see what extra elements
02:01 this brings to that Uconnect system.
02:02 Another cool feature is Uconnect 5 can support up to four additional displays and display
02:07 15 million pixels.
02:09 To put that into context that is a TI83 graphics calculator.
02:13 It'll do 6,000 pixels and the capability of Uconnect 5 is double that of a 4k television
02:19 and that is all with a car's infotainment system.
02:22 In addition to that it brings over-the-air updates for extra features and security updates
02:26 and it will also do wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
02:29 Now moving on to the next cool feature LEDs.
02:32 Car manufacturers love flexing big time when it comes to LEDs.
02:35 Audi's LED game is really strong but I think Jeep has gone next level here with LEDs.
02:40 I'm looking at pictures of the front of the Wagoneer.
02:43 You can see the grille there if you look closely.
02:45 It's got that obsidian black color to it and Jeep has that traditional seven slat grille
02:50 but in between the slats on the grille are individual banks of LEDs and then above that
02:55 you have an LED strip that lights up across the entire grille and then Wagoneer is extruded,
03:01 it sticks out and that is backlit as well so at night time this car is really going
03:06 to stand out.
03:07 If you take a closer look at the headlights you get bi-LED headlights but the bi-LED headlight
03:12 module sits within real teak wood so you see that around the frame there and I think that
03:17 looks really cool.
03:18 If you go around to the rear of the car more LED there with a strip that runs along the
03:21 back of the car and even more of that extruded grand Wagoneer lettering.
03:26 It really is quite a strong presence out on the road.
03:29 Now moving on to the next cool feature, the roof.
03:31 So it is just a standard panoramic roof, it looks pretty cool.
03:34 You see that in most cars today but Jeep has buried an Easter egg in there because the
03:39 roof features a mapped outline of Detroit.
03:43 Detroit is of course where they're building this alongside the Ram 1500 so it's a bit
03:46 of a homage to where the car is created and where it all starts and it'll be cool when
03:51 this is seen in other places around the world that you look up and you'll be able to see
03:55 that map of Detroit.
03:56 Now our friends over at Autoblog have even enhanced that image and found the factory
04:00 where it's going to be built so there is a fair bit of detail there and I'll be keen
04:03 to see whether this translates from the concept into the production car.
04:07 Okay moving on to the next cool feature and that is the interior.
04:09 I don't know, the outside I don't love and styling is entirely subjective so you may
04:14 love the outside but I don't know, I just think it looks a bit gaudy but the inside
04:18 is sensational.
04:19 It just looks really high-end luxury and I think that's what they're trying to strike
04:22 here with Grand Wagoneer.
04:24 It needs to be high-end and premium.
04:26 Just have a look at that, it looks fantastic.
04:28 Even that two-pillar steering wheel, you really don't see that very often and I think it just
04:32 adds that element of luxury.
04:33 You've got that suede headliner, you have recycled materials used throughout the cabin
04:37 but have a look on the passenger side.
04:40 There is a screen built into the dashboard.
04:42 Now this isn't the first car to feature this.
04:44 We have seen this previously on the Porsche Taycan and I had a chance to play with it
04:48 in the Taycan and it is kind of a pointless feature but I just love the fact that they've
04:52 integrated an LCD display there and this is part of what I mentioned earlier with Uconnect
04:56 5.
04:57 This is one of those four screens they're able to add to the rest of the car.
05:00 So in addition to that 10.25-inch screen, you also get 10.1-inch screens in the back
05:06 seat.
05:07 There's also a screen beneath the infotainment screen in the front seat and then you get
05:10 an additional screen in the second row for controlling your heating and cooling.
05:15 So this is a really nicely presented interior and a couple of other cool things that have
05:19 come up here.
05:20 So 3D wood inlays are used throughout the cabin but if you have a look at that dashboard
05:24 beneath the screen on the passenger side, the Grand Wagoneer insignia is inscribed in
05:29 raw aluminium directly into the wood.
05:33 So it's this kind of stuff that's going to sell this car because that isn't very easy
05:37 to do.
05:38 A couple more points I want to make here about the interior.
05:39 The Grand Wagoneer is a seven-seater but as you can see here in the concept, it's kind
05:44 of like a six-seat business layout.
05:45 So in the second row there, you've got that divider which means you don't need to be too
05:48 close to your passengers and those seats are individually controlled in terms of heating
05:52 and cooling.
05:53 So that looks like a pretty decent setup.
05:55 OK, finally, plug-in hybrid.
05:57 We do know that the Grand Wagoneer is going to come in petrol, probably a V6, a V8, the
06:01 standard raft of engines you expect in these types of cars but Jeep has said that it will
06:06 be fitting a plug-in hybrid drivetrain.
06:08 Now we do know that the 4XE Wrangler, which is the new plug-in hybrid version of the Wrangler,
06:14 uses a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol engine mated to an electric drivetrain
06:19 but I don't think they'll be fitting that to the Grand Wagoneer.
06:21 It's too big of a car to support a drivetrain like that so they'll probably fit a V6 or
06:27 a V8 as standard with the plug-in hybrid mated to probably a V6 petrol engine and that'll
06:33 mean that it has, according to rumours on the internet, a driving range of around 30
06:37 miles or about 50 kilometres on electric power alone and then you'll be able to charge that
06:42 at home using a standard power plug as well and the way this works is that it can use
06:46 both of those modes of transport, so the internal combustion engine and the electric motor or
06:51 it can just drive on electric power alone.
06:54 So it'll be interesting to see how this fits into the Grand scheme.
06:57 It forms part of a wider remit that Jeep has to electrify all of the vehicles in its range
07:02 and this is just the next one that's going to be electrified as part of that project.
07:07 So there it is, your first look at the Jeep Grand Wagoneer concept that's probably going
07:12 to be exactly what the production car looks like when it finally does arrive next year
07:16 and they start building it.
07:17 Let me know in the comments below what do you think, is it a bit sort of ugly, do you
07:21 like the look of it and what do you think of the interior, I think that's where they've
07:24 really kicked some massive goals.
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