Jeep will bring the Cherokee nameplate back for the 2026 model year after quietly retiring the previous generation in 2023.

older model’s upscale pretensions with a unique grille design, more standard equipment, and an available woodgrain package. The XJ Wagoneer was short-lived, however. While the Jeep Comanche ...

Most notable, however, was its new grille ... the Wagoneer gradually regained position over the following years. Then, in 1984, AMC introduced the all-new unibody XJ Cherokee to the Jeep lineup.

The model year was 1984, and Jeep ... Wagoneer (the Senior Jeep, or SJ, as that model was called, was then later renamed Grand Wagoneer, but more on that in another Autopsy). Think sport truck (XJ ...

Similar to the four-door Wagoneer in overall design, it featured a Gladiator grille ... The vaunted XJ Cherokee arrived for the 1984 model year, and it was the first all-new Jeep wagon since ...

The Jeep Grand Wagoneer may have been Jeep flagship for much of the 1970s and the 1980s, but it was by no means the sole Jeep model to sport a woodgrain jacket. It gets all the glory at auctions ...

The SJ platform would be offered through the 1991 model year as the Grand Wagoneer, but for 1984, Jeep decided to move the Cherokee onto a newer, smaller platform called the XJ. As the Wagoneer ...

This is why. Jeep sold nearly three million XJ Cherokees. If you grew up outside wintry Detroit like I did, the XJ was ubiquitous. My parents had a Wagoneer model; my younger brother drove a Cherokee ...

"It needs to be said: The 1984 Jeep XJ Cherokee and Wagoneer, the most completely redesigned Jeeps since 1963, were the most advanced four-wheel drive vehicles in the world," Patrick Foster says ...

One of them was the popular Cherokee XJ, built between 1983 and 2001. Also called the Jeep Wagoneer Limited, Renault Jeep Cherokee, Renault Cherokee, Jeep 2500/2700, BAW Qishi, and many others ...

It was initially a rebadged two-door Jeep Wagoneer and then switched with the second generation in 1984 to a lighter, nimbler, unibody design with the arrival of the XJ version of the Jeep Cherokee.