Good idea..Grand Cherokee has always been a 2-row SUV, 3-row needs its own identity.    

Cool, but if the Grand Wagoneer is a 3 row, why have another one under another name.

Me thinking that maybe a bit of over kill in the CUV/SUV segment.

33 minutes ago, dfelt said:

Cool, but if the Grand Wagoneer is a 3 row, why have another one under another name.

Me thinking that maybe a bit of over kill in the CUV/SUV segment.

Well, Ford, GM, Toyota, etc each have multiple 3 row models, so there is precedent.. Explorer and two lengths of Expedition, Traverse, Tahoe, and Suburban, etc.

So it sounds like GC will remain two row, then the new 3 row, then the full size BOF Wagoneer (SWB like the Tahoe) and Grand Wagoneer (LWB like the Suburban). 

Again, I will believe it once we see it. We’ve been waiting on the Wagoneer for years 😢

Well, it was in the last 5-year plan...maybe it will be in the next one also...

59 minutes ago, Matt 967 said:

Again, I will believe it once we see it. We’ve been waiting on the Wagoneer for years 😢

They're building a whole new plant to be able to build it.

I don't get why they need to have three 3-row SUVs.  I think a Wagoneer priced in the 30s to compete with Highlander, Pilot and Traverse and a luxury Grand Wagoneer 3- row in the $50k range makes a lot of sense.  They can cover a mainstream and an upscale with that strategy, much like how they have Cherokee and Grand Cherokee 2-row SUVs.  

11 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

I don't get why they need to have three 3-row SUVs.  I think a Wagoneer priced in the 30s to compete with Highlander, Pilot and Traverse and a luxury Grand Wagoneer 3- row in the $50k range makes a lot of sense.  They can cover a mainstream and an upscale with that strategy, much like how they have Cherokee and Grand Cherokee 2-row SUVs.  

The GC is already in the 40s-50s in most trim levels--the GC-based 3-row will likely be in the same range, so the full size Ram-based models would be above that.

I'd assume a full size BOF Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer would start in at least the Expedition/Tahoe/Yukon price range.. I can see the Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer targeting a broad spectrum of the full size market from Expedition/Tahoe/Suburban up to Navigator/Denali/Escalade but with off road capable versions (ala Ram Power Wagon) available.. Jeep likes having a lot of trims on their models across a price range.  I recall a while back talk of a potential version at Range Rover price levels..Jeep is ambitious.  

Can FCA pull it off?  Time will tell, but in recent years they seem to be hitting home runs w/ Jeep and Ram..

45 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

I don't get why they need to have three 3-row SUVs.  I think a Wagoneer priced in the 30s to compete with Highlander, Pilot and Traverse and a luxury Grand Wagoneer 3- row in the $50k range makes a lot of sense.  They can cover a mainstream and an upscale with that strategy, much like how they have Cherokee and Grand Cherokee 2-row SUVs.  

Traverse, Tahoe, Suburban = Acadia, Enclave, Yukon, Yukon XL = XT6, Escalade, Escalade ESV = Explorer, Expedition, Expedition Max = Highlander, Sequoia, Land Cruiser

=

Grand Cherokee XL, Wagoneer, Grand Wagoneer

Even Nissan has it, though down a size class each with Rogue, Pathfinder, Armada

While the market is hot, they need to be in there.  I don't know if Dodge or Ram will get mid size or full size also, but Jeep is THE SUV brand at FCA..everything else is secondary. 

Jeep needs a unibody SUV starting around 30k with 3 rows.  You have Palisade, Tulluride, Atlas, Ascent, Highlander, Pilot, Traverse, Enclave, Explorer, Pathfinder all in that segment, I don't know if I forgot anyone there are so many, I just named ten 3-row SUVs.    Jeep who are the SUV people somehow are missing, so that is a must be in segment.  

A luxury 3 row whether it be based on a Grand Cherokee or some other platform would be in that higher end, like Tahoe, Aviator, XT6 sort of money I'd think.  If Jeep thinks they can go up into Range Rover money they are delusional.

26 minutes ago, smk4565 said:

Jeep needs a unibody SUV starting around 30k with 3 rows.  You have Palisade, Tulluride, Atlas, Ascent, Highlander, Pilot, Traverse, Enclave, Explorer, Pathfinder all in that segment, I don't know if I forgot anyone there are so many, I just named ten 3-row SUVs.    Jeep who are the SUV people somehow are missing, so that is a must be in segment.  

A luxury 3 row whether it be based on a Grand Cherokee or some other platform would be in that higher end, like Tahoe, Aviator, XT6 sort of money I'd think.  If Jeep thinks they can go up into Range Rover money they are delusional.

Are you intentionally not understanding?

14 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Are you intentionally not understanding?

I don't get how you make three 3-row Jeeps.  A 3-row Grand Cherokee is your Grand Wagoneer, why would you make both?  

5 hours ago, Robert Hall said:

Well, Ford, GM, Toyota, etc each have multiple 3 row models, so there is precedent.. Explorer and two lengths of Expedition, Traverse, Tahoe, and Suburban, etc.

So it sounds like GC will remain two row, then the new 3 row, then the full size BOF Wagoneer (SWB like the Tahoe) and Grand Wagoneer (LWB like the Suburban). 

Sounds right to me. Honestly, they could being back the Commander name....

10 hours ago, smk4565 said:

I don't get how you make three 3-row Jeeps.  A 3-row Grand Cherokee is your Grand Wagoneer, why would you make both?  

No, the Grand Wagoneer is going to be the BOF Suburban/Escalade ESV type vehicle.  Go back and look at the 5 yr plan slides from last year.   The 3 row GC is a unibody Durango sized vehicle (E-segment 3 row).  It’s all there in the slides.  Time will tell how they execute that plan. 

If the Durango is retired and replaced with a "Jeep" vehicle, it is more proof that FCA's plan all along was to take Dodge out behind the woodshed, and kill it dead.  Given their completely nonexistent attempts at broadening Chryslers's model range,  that has surely been the plan for Chrysler brand too.

Just like Daimler Chrysler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is pronounced with the "Chrysler" part silent.

10 hours ago, smk4565 said:

I don't get how you make three 3-row Jeeps.  A 3-row Grand Cherokee is your Grand Wagoneer, why would you make both?  

3-Row Grand Cherokee = Traverse/Explorer/Acadia/XT6
3-Row Wagoneer = Tahoe/Expedition/Yukon/Escalade
3-Row Grand Wagoneer = Suburban/Expedition Max/Yukon XL/Escalade ESV

What don't you understand?

The Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer are going to be made on the Ram 1500 frame.

What happened to the Jeep Commander?  That seems like a perfect name for this 3-row CUV.

Just now, riviera74 said:

What happened to the Jeep Commander?  That seems like a perfect name for this 3-row CUV.

The Jeep Commander was based on the prior generation Grand Cherokee. When they went to the current generation, they decided to give the 3-row to Dodge instead of Jeep in order to build a replacement Durango.  When the 2011 Cherokee was being developed, Chrysler was in turmoil, there was not enough money to do a GC, and Durango, and Commander. The Dakota, Aspen, old Durango, and Pacifica also died in this time-frame.  So in order to cover both Dodge and Jeep, the Commander was axed and Dodge got the 3-row.

The Commander was odd in that it had the same wheelbase as the WK GC.    I assume the 3rd row on the Commander was pretty cramped... (WK wheelbase was 109.x, WK2 GC wheelbase is 114.8, 3rd gen Durango wheelbase is 119.9). 

5 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

The Commander was odd in that it had the same wheelbase as the WK GC.    I assume the 3rd row on the Commander was pretty cramped... (WK wheelbase was 109.x, WK2 GC wheelbase is 114.8, 3rd gen Durango wheelbase is 119.9). 

Yeah, children only and with the seats up, there was virtually zero cargo space. 

I never liked the WK generation of GCs, as with most everything Chrysler built in the mid 00s, the interiors were cheap and nasty..wasn't a good period for them.   I remember back in '05 checking out the new WK (my WJ was 5 years old then) and thinking the interior was garbage and the exterior styling was bland and weird (those headlight humps in the hood--ick). ..not as bad as the Liberty or Nitro, though.  

just what the market needs... 3 more huge suvs  we ddidn't have enough before.

21 minutes ago, Potluck said:

just what the market needs... 3 more huge suvs  we didn't have enough before.

Roomy for us big people and better than cars in most cases which are even more cramped.

3 row SUVs are the station wagons/minivans of today..as long as there are families in the US, there are going to be family wagons of some form.