Jeep Wagoneer

This is the catalogue record of the Jeep Wagoneer, one of 51 models Jeep has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1962. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Jeep Wagoneer properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1960s were the decade of the pony car, the mid-engined revolution and the birth of the modern hot hatchback's ancestors — engineering advanced faster than in any decade before it. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Alfa Romeo Alfa Romeo Giulia, the Ferrari Ferrari 250 GTO, the Buick Buick Riviera — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Jeep Wagoneer reads like this: the record lists its engine as 230 CID Jeep Tornado engine / Tornado Straight-six engine / I6 / 258 CID AMC Straight-6 engine / AMC I6 / 282 CID AMC straight-6 engine#282 / VAM I6 — Mexico only / 327 cuin AMC V8; kerb weight is recorded at 4514 lb; drive goes through 3-speed Borg-Warner Borg-Warner T-90#T-90J / T-90J Manual transmission / manual / 4-speed manual / 3-speed General Motors / GM Turbo-Hydramatic / THM400 Automatic transmission / au; the layout is Front engine, rear-wheel drive / four-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.

Its place in the Jeep story

Within Jeep's own catalogue the Jeep Wagoneer sits alongside the Jeep Wrangler (JK), the Jeep Wrangler (TJ), the Jeep Gladiator (2005), the Jeep Wrangler (JL). The record names the Willys Jeep Station Wagon as its predecessor and the Jeep Grand Cherokee (ZJ) / Jeep Grand Wagoneer Limited (ZJ) / Jeep Cherokee (XJ) / Jeep Wagoneer Limited (XJ) / Jeep Wagoneer (WS) / Jeep Wagoneer/Grand Wagoneer (WS) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Brooks Stevens. Assembly is recorded at United States: Toledo, Ohio (Toledo Complex#Stickney Plant / Stickney Plant) / Iran: Tehran (Pars Khodro) / Egypt: Cairo (AEV) / Argentina: Córdoba Province, Argentina / Córdoba (I.

How this catalogue works

This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.

From catalogue to ownership

The catalogue records what the Jeep Wagoneer was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.