First Look: 2015 Jeep Renegade
Is Jeep's Italian stepchild steps out in Geneva
Was that the headless horseman of the apocalypse that just rode by? This has to be one of the signs. Jeep is importing a crossover, the 2015 Jeep Renegade, built in Melfi Italy on a platform shared with the Fiat 500L.
But if you can set that fact aside and imagine inhaling the same Lake Erie air new-car smell that a proper Toledo-born Jeep comes with, you might find something to like here. The interior and exterior styling whops you upside the head with its Willys ancestry, from its Wrangler-esque seven-slot grille and round headlamps, to its upright windshield, square tail lamps, and optional faux-removable black roof option (in fact, the optional My Sky removable roof panels provide much the same open-air feeling).
Inside there are "clamp" motifs holding the infotainment system to the center stack, the vents to the dash, the speakers to the door panels, and the shifter to the console. The first is emblazoned with "Since 1941," and the others can all be anodized in accent colors. The floor of the center cubby features a topographical map of Moab. Mama, mia, that's a Yankee doodle dandy!
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