1973 – what a time to be alive. Median house prices were around $35,000, you could buy a Holden Monaro HQ GTS for around $4000, roller-skates were all the rage, and Pink Floyd dominated the charts with Dark Side of the Moon. The world was a psychedelic place, man. And Jeep was right in the thick of it when it released one very special car in America...
Once upon a time, SUVs as we know them today, were the domain of farmers, rural dwellers and off-road enthusiasts. They sat tall on the road and usually on big, thick, knobby tyres that rumbled on the sealed road and dispensed with off-road detritus with ease...
The most capable baby off-roader money can buy, but does it make sense?
Tony heads stateside to explore the Joshua Tree National Park in the 2016 Jeep Renegade...
Read the full article here. Once upon a time, SUVs as we know them today, were the domain of farmers, rural dwellers and off-road enthusiasts. They sat tall on the road and usually on big, thick, knobby tyres that rumbled on the sealed road and dispensed with off-road detritus with ease...
You might think that California is all sun-soaked beaches and Hollywood Hills. But two hours outside Los Angeles you’ll find a landscape so harsh, so unforgiving, so Alien, that NASA use it to put their lunar vehicles through their paces Where the Mojave and Colorado deserts collide, you’ll find Joshua Tree National Park, 1240-square miles of inhospitable sand and rock, and a place so steeped in pop culture history that thousands of U2 fans make the pilgrimage to this spot every year to try and find the tree that inspired the band’s 1987 album...
The latest entrant to the booming baby SUV segment is the 2015 Jeep Renegade – a tiny high-rider that claims to be unlike most of the other small soft-roaders that have come before it. Jeep says the all-new Renegade is the most capable small SUV ever made, and following our time in the car at the Hollister Hills off-road park outside of San Jose, California, we can attest that this is no regular high-riding hatchback...
2014 Paris motor show - Join Tegan for a first look at the new ‘baby’ Jeep Renegage, which should arrive in Australia next year.
At the recent MotorWorld Sydney event at Sydney Motorsport Park, we assembled 11 small SUVs under $50,000 with the aim of comparing not only the cars, but the thoughts of the CarAdvice testing team with the thoughts of you – our readers – and other members of the public...
UPDATE, 2 March 2021: Reports out of Europe overnight have provided more details on the upcoming small SUV from Jeep. Sources have told Automotive News Europe the new 'baby Jeep' will slot below the current Jeep Renegade, and will use powertrains developed by Peugeot, with the potential for an electric motor to power the rear axle to make the model all-wheel-drive...
Jeep has put its slow-selling Renegade SUV on hold in Australia. The rugged-looking rival to the Mazda CX-3 and Honda HR-V only found 70 homes last year, down from 163 in 2018 – and a huge drop from the 1051 sold in 2016, the Renegade's best year in Australia. Even slow-selling competitors like the Ford EcoSport (481 sales) and Nissan Juke (509) comfortably outsold the smallest Jeep last year...
Plenty has happened in the world of car news over the last 24 hours. If you haven't had time to read all the news on CarAdvice.com, catch up on your way home with Car News Daily, as Mandy Turner reads each news story word-for-word...
Jeep has confirmed technical details for its first plug-in hybrid, the Renegade PHEV. It’ll be followed by a plug-in hybrid version of the Compass. Autocar reports the electrified Renegade will use a 99kW rear-mounted electric motor mated to the more powerful 134kW tune of FCA’s 1.3-litre turbocharged four-cylinder engine...
