THE BIG FINISH
The Jeep Wrangler Edition was the final hurrah for the old JK model before it went out of production to be replaced by the current JL. With only 55 sold in the UK, it’s a rare beast – especially in 3.6-litre V6 form, as most that came here were diesels. This example, however, is more than just rare – having been given the treatment by Storm Jeeps, it’s a bona fide one-off Words: Tom Alderney Pictures: Storm Jeeps
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hen the current Jeep Wrangler was launched in the UK in 2019, it was the dawn of a new era. But thanks to Europe’s approach to cutting carbon emissions, it was also the end of another. When the previous-generation JK model was launched, back in 2007, it was with wall-to-wall diesel engines. Except in the case of the evolved
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Rubicon model, that is, which got a 3.8-litre petrol engine with 196bhp. But then, during the course of the JK’s life, Jeep introduced the 3.6-litre V6 Pentastar engine. With 280bhp, this was much more like it. It took time, but the new engine found its way into UK models in the latter part of the JK’s production run, not just in the Rubicon but in everyday models too.
What you’re looking at here is one of the very last. One of, if not the very last, in fact, because UK supply dwindled to less than a trickle as the JK neared its end. It’s a 2018 Wrangler Edition. As the name suggests, this was a limited-run model designed to squeeze the last drops out of the JK (something Jeep hardly needed to do, such was the clamour
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