If you’re looking for something to totally transform your JK Wrangler, we’ve got the package for you! We now have a number of Mopar JK-8 Independence pickup conversion kits in stock and ready to ship for only $5,499. These have been selling quick so get your order in before this shipment is gone! Check out all of the details here or give us a call at 855-303-7483 if you’d like any more details.

AUBURN HILLS, Mich., Dec. 1, 2011 — /PRNewswire/ –

• More fuel-efficient, more powerful and more capable Jeep® Wrangler recognized with esteemed award from leading off-road enthusiast magazine
• “Four Wheeler of the Year” is Jeep Wrangler’s 8th award in recent weeks
• Jeep Wrangler boasts dramatically improved on-road performance and even more off-road prowess for 2012
• New 3.6-liter V-6 engine improves Wrangler’s fuel efficiency – up to 21 miles per gallon – with a 40-percent increase in horsepower and a 10-percent increase in torque
• Wrangler succeeds Jeep Grand Cherokee as “Four Wheeler of the Year”
• Jeep Wrangler sales up 29 percent for the year; November marked sixth consecutive monthly sales record

The new 2012 Jeep® Wrangler Rubicon – the most capable production vehicle on the planet – has been named “Four Wheeler of the Year” by Four Wheeler magazine. The award is given annually by the editors of the opinion-leading off-road enthusiast magazine.

John Cappa

To qualify for the competition, entries had to be entirely new or have substantial mechanical revisions from a previous model year. Testing was conducted over more than a thousand miles on a variety of terrain, including pavement, gravel, dirt, sand, rocks and mud, at elevations ranging from sea level to more than 9,000 feet.

Mike Manley

The 2012 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon “Four Wheeler of the Year” award comes a year after the Jeep Grand Cherokee – the premium icon of the brand – captured the award, and less than two years after the Jeep Wrangler Rubicon was named the Best 4×4 vehicle of the 2000-2009 decade by Four Wheeler magazine.

• 4×4 of the Year, Petersen’s 4-Wheel & Off-Road magazine
• Mid-size SUV of Texas, Texas Auto Writers Association
• Best Value Off-Road, Active Lifestyle Vehicle (ALV) award
• Hottest 4×4 SUV, Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) award
• ALG Residual Value Award – Best Compact Utility Vehicle
• Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com Best Resale Value Award, Compact Utility Vehicle
• Kelley Blue Book’s kbb.com Best Resale Value Award, Top-10 Cars

SOURCE Chrysler Group LLC

So you really want a Jeep pickup but you can’t wait for 5 years for a new Comanche that might never happen?  Well Mopar offer a conversion kit to turn your 2007-2012 4-door JK Wrangler into just that, a JK8 “Scrambler” if you will.

This complete kit features a spacious 44-by-50-inch steel bed, inner and outer bed sides constructed from stamped sheet metal, sport-bar extensions, Freedom Panel assemblies, a removable fiberglass hard top with a sliding rear window, two fixed side windows and a fiberglass bulkhead.  Mopar claim that “skilled do-it-yourselfers” should be able to install the kit, but dealership service departments can do it as well — for an additional charge.

Most importantly, we have these kits ready to be ordered today!

I’m looking forward to another great Easter Jeep Safari in Moab.  This is the 45^th year for this event.

Honestly, I can run the Moab trails anytime throughout the year, but what makes the event so much fun is seeing friends from all over the country that I rarely get to see otherwise and checking out all of the cool vehicles.  You can always bet that the vendors bring are going to bring out their best stuff, too.  This year there is a lot of hype about the six new “Moparized” Jeep® vehicles that will be out strutting their stuff.  You can check them out in one of our previous blog posts here.

The weather is usually “interesting”.  There is often snow on the mountains while it may be sunny in town…or it may rain…or snow flurries may appear—all within a few hours.

Chrysler Communications confirmed to us that Jeep will be making their annual new product announcements at 12:15PM on Wednesday, April 20th. and BF Goodrich, Tread Lightly!, and the United 4WD Associations will be announcing their 2011 Outstanding Trails.

Will you be out there?  If not, you can hear all about it on our blog.  ~ Dave Logan