'A True Jeep': Subcompact Jeep Crossover On Track for 2013 Debut

Jeep is advancing a fresh auto SUV crossover for the average of agenda year 2013. It will be congenital in Europe on a Fiat platform, but Jeep promises it will accept cogent off-road capability. 

Jeep CEO Mike Manley told Motor Trend, 'It will be a accurate Jeep. There will be an all-wheel-drive version, and a Trail Rated version.'

We acknowledgment the Nissan Juke and Mini Countryman as rivals, and he agrees. As a added 18-carat off-broader, though, the Jeep would accept little absolute competition.

We ask if there are any architecture clues in the company's assorted babyish Jeep abstraction cars, such as the Jeep REO and Varsity from auto shows past. Now we accept all-embracing ascribe in packaging, interiors, ability train, everything."