Re: Wrangler Unlimited = very dumb name (if nothing else)
 

I'll admit I botched the lineage a bit. But trolling? Hardly.

I'm just 1 person opining that it's a quarter-assed name for a
quarter-assed product.


"CRWLR" <CRWLRJEFF@YAHOO.COM> wrote in message news:<106j642hi3dbqc1@corp.supernews.com>...
> Troll.
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> Pioneer, Comanche, and Commando have never been associated with the Wrangler
> or any of the other open-top models. I have to wonder why they did not
> revive the Scrambler name for the long wheelbase TJ.
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> "Tripp Knightly" <trippknightly@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:120d8f1c.0403261803.31590c8e@posting.google.c om...
> > I've seen bad brand extensions before, but "unlimited"? This is
> > naming by committee if ever there was.
> >
> > Here are some of the names Jeep has its associated w/ the wrangler and
> > its derivative works:
> >
> > Scrambler
> > Rubicon
> > Renegade
> > Sahara (yawn)
> > Comanche
> > Pioneer
> > Commando
> > plus a whole bunch of concept names
> >
> > But "unlimited"? Sheesh.
> >
> > It also looks about as uninspired as the name. Like the
> > lowest-common-denominator stretch wrangler you could cook up (compare
> > that to the Dakar concept vehicle from a couple years back). Looks
> > like a shop-fabricated stretch wrangler that you'd get carted around
> > in at Universal Studios or something.
> >
> > But I'm sure it's a great vehicle though that will be remembered
> > fondly by jeep enthusiasts everywhere for decades to come.
> >
> > Heh heh.