Jeep Will Sell 4-Inch Lift Kit from Wrangler Red Rock Concept

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Posted by Jeff Perez

 

  

A few weeks back, Jeep revealed not one, not two, but seven 4×4 concept cars for the annual Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. Fan praised and radically styled, those concepts likely won’t ever make it into private collections… but the company is doing the next best thing.

 

Fans of the Jeep Wrangler Red Rock Responder concept, seen above, will now be able to purchase the same four-inch lift kit for their late model Wrangler Unlimited, straight from Jeep Performance Parts. The news comes along with a slew of other company-backed performance upgrades, also now on offer from JPP.

According to Jeep, the four-inch kit arrives next month with factory tuned springs, remote reservoir shocks, new brake lines and control arms, a double cardan driveshaft, steering damper and a high-steer conversion kit. More detailed specifications haven’t been announced, other than its $2,250 price tag, but fitted to the Wrangler Red Rock, the kit allowed for 37-inch BF Goodrich Mud Terrain tires to find a home underneath.

It comes as good news for Jeep fans looking for factory alternatives to aftermarket kits, but it also stimulates a larger question. Will Jeep bring a pickup truck back to market? If those at the company’s upper echelon have a say… then yes. Jeep CEO Mike Manley previously noted that he would like to see a pickup return to the Jeep lineup, but that it would likely debut with the next generation Wrangler – expected in 2017.

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