The Two-Door Scrambler Will Finally Come Back to Life as Jeep’s Desert-Running Halo Model

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The Wrangler-based two-door 2028 Scrambler pickup truck will finally come back to life as Jeep’s desert-running halo model.

The Scrambler truck will finally come back to life as Jeep’s desert-running halo model. The Jeep Scrambler is a two-door pickup truck based on the Jeep Wrangler/Gladiator. While the Gladiator has a military look with a low beltline, the higher-beltline Scrambler with a lower greenhouse is designed to convey muscularity and fun, styled to look strong instead of purposeful.

Indeed, the Jeep team took the four-door Wrangler’s underpinnings and played with the proportions; instead of four doors, they made the front doors significantly larger, like a coupe’s, to make it easier to get to the back seat. And in the rear, the cap can come off. (Our renderings show what a two-seater spin-off might look like, incorporating the same design cues we have…

The gee-whiz feature: The back seats face forward as you expect, but when you remove the cap at the back, you may also take out those seats and flip them to face backward for tailgating, complete with a step to more easily climb aboard. And with the top off, you can also fold the seats backward, laying them down to create a flat floor for a bed bigger than the bed in the…

The original Jeep Scrambler was the CJ-8 version, built from 1981 to ’86. It was essentially a stretched CJ-7 with a small pickup bed and became a collector’s item. Jeep brought the Gladiator back to the market in 2019, but that didn’t stop calls to bring back a Scrambler, which will now be a halo vehicle for desert-running enthusiasts.

Of course, the company has teased Scrambler ideas with its annual bevy of Moab concepts for the Easter Jeep Safari, spending millions on assorted models that showcase cool ideas and features. But executives were called out constantly for not making actual vehicles based on those concepts. From what we’ve heard, the Scrambler has been described as a mashup of many of the things…

Why It Matters

Of course, the company has teased Scrambler ideas with its annual bevy of Moab concepts for the Easter Jeep Safari, spending millions on assorted models that showcase cool ideas and features.

CarMotion Daily’s Take

The Scrambler truck will finally come back to life as Jeep’s desert-running halo model. Watch this space over the coming weeks.