Jeep unveils first teasers for Moab Easter Safari 2023

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Jeep mid-March let slip its first teasers of the off-road concepts it plans to show off at the 2023 Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah, releasing two sketches of hopped-up Wranglers—and one looks a little familiar. The press release accompanying the images noted one of them would be a 4xe model, but we’ll also say the green-tinted teaser gives us flashbacks to the mods worn by the fully-electric Magneto concept that Jeep showed off in 2021 and 2022. Could we be looking at Magneto 3.0?

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To put words to some of the details in that sketch, that particular concept looks to wear super-wide fender flares, with a nice huge cut-out in the front ones to meet the Wrangler’s hood-side vent; there are no doors on the thing, either, just like Magneto 2.0, with a nice chamfer all around the opening instead. The bodywork over the rear of the vehicle is similarly open and chamfered, also like Magneto’s. It’s hard to make out much more than that, besides a couple of knobby tires.

The other teaser shows off a Wrangler Unlimited with steel-bar-type doors, and some kind of netting over the open rear section. The grey of the sketch is set off nicely by saddle-leather upholstery on the seats—and also by a blue outline around the “Rubicon” lettering on the hood, and the Jeep badge on the side. That’s a colour we typically associate with 4xe models, so we wouldn’t be surprised if this is the hybridized rig the release refers to.

These two are surely just the first of many such teasers—Jeep brought seven concept rigs to Moab last year, after all, and we even drove a few of them. These inspiration-machines typically wear a tonne of Jeep Performance Parts (JPP) by Mopar accessories, either currently in the catalog or slated for it soon.

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But what will be particularly interesting this year is if, possible Magneto 3.0 aside, we see any more fully electric Jeeps out on the trail. I mean, the press images that the automaker loosed last September of its new Recon EV model showed it on everything but pavement, and that little trucklet – along with its also-fully-battery-powered brother, the Wagoneer S – is due to hit dealers 2024, which would make Moab 2023 a great place to show it off. Of course, depending on the model’s release schedule, maybe Moab 2024 is a better bet for that sort of thing.

In any case, we’ll update this page with future teasers over the next few weeks, as we’re sure Jeep will drop a few before bringing out the actual things at the Safari, held April 1 through 9.

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