2025 Easter Jeep Safari Brings Out the Concepts, But No Excess HP
Your standard wild builds based on the Wrangler and Gladiator are here, but one or two could be next-gen Jeeps, and a couple of new features may see the light of day.By Dan EdmundsPublished: Apr 11, 2025
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- Jeep is bringing seven concepts to the Easter Jeep Safari: the Convoy, Bug Out, Rewind, Wrangler Blueprint, Rubicon Sunchaser, Gladiator High Top Honcho, and J6 Honcho.
- Three of them are termed Easter Jeep Safari concepts, and the other four feature modified Jeeps outfitted with Mopar parts, but not one of them has a wild engine.
- There is one outlier in the lineup, because the J6 Honcho is in the Mopar parts category, which begs a question: Is the J6 two-door pickup coming to production? We hope so.
You know it’s time for the Easter Jeep Safari when they start hauling out the concepts. So it is with the 2025 iteration of EJS, and they’re bringing seven this time. Three of them are classified as concepts, namely the Jeep Convoy, the Jeep Bug Out 4xe, and the Jeep Rewind. The first two are indeed concept vehicles, but the Rewind looks suspiciously buildable. That leaves four others in the “Performance Parts by Mopar” category. Of those, one is literally a catalog on wheels, two are fairly approachable builds, and one is . . . a Wrangler two-door pickup?
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- Jeep Convoy
- Jeep Bug Out
- Jeep Rewind
- Jeep Wrangler 4xe Blueprint
- Jeep Wrangler 4xe Rubicon Sunchaser
- Jeep Gladiator High Top Honcho
- Jeep J6 Honcho
Jeep Convoy
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Beginning life as a 2025 Jeep Gladiator, the Convoy has a new nose, hood, and front fenders inspired by the J-series. Introduced as the SJ-series for the 1963 model year, the Jeep Gladiator was built through 1988, although it was renamed the Jeep truck and called the J-series starting in 1972. It is this J-series front styling that the Convoy seeks to emulate, and we think it comes off quite well.
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Beyond that, the Convoy brings with it a military vibe with low-back seats in distressed leather, chocolate brown canvas half-doors, and a matching top and bed canopy. Of course, it has a snorkel and a Warn 12,000-pound winch, because that’s what any self-respecting military-grade truck would have. Rolling stock is 40-inch BFGoodrich crawler tires on 17-inch rims, and they’ve fitted high-clearance fenders to package them.
Jeep Bug Out
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The Bug Out is a Jeep Wrangler 4xe four-door body, but the rear doors have been filled in, so you’re left with a two-door, two-passenger long box design. They’ve also swapped the tailgate from side-hinged to a Gladiator-style drop-down. Mopar front half-doors are fitted, and the side flanks have been thoroughly eliminated and cut down to the level of the half-door in keeping with the ultra-lightweight theme. To that end, the only glass is the windshield, and the roof has been remolded. Now it’s four inches higher so you can easily reach inside.
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It also has a steel front bumper, LED lights, and a custom hood. At the back is a high-departure-angle tube bumper. Inside, the rear load floor is flat behind the front seats, and there are attachment points for a sleeping hammock. It rolls on 37-inch BFGoodrich KM3 tires and 18-inch wheels, so high-clearance fender flares are needed. The yellow packs behind the front doors are batteries, though whether they’re for the 4xe itself or are spare packs for the Jeep electric off-road e-scooter that’s fitted remain to be seen. Unlikely to see the light of day, but the high roof might be a little market research for the next generation.
Jeep Rewind
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The Rewind frankly looks like something they could offer right away, because it’s mainly a two-door Jeep with a wild paint job and interior graphics. The doors have come off (which they do anyway), and so has the top. Sure, it’s got a custom mesh sun bonnet attached, but those exist. The theme, of course, is ’80s and ’90s inspired, which we can see straight away, but that’s as far as this concept goes.
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Well, they have eliminated the rear seat and made the floor smooth, they’ve added a storage compartment, and they’ve also done some related work on the roll bar. A set of 37-inch BFGoodrich KM3 M/T tires have been fitted, wrapping around 17-inch AEV wheels. Mostly, though, it’s wild graphics.
Jeep Wrangler 4xe Blueprint
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Jeep’s Blueprint is basically a box stock Wrangler 4xe fitted with every possible Mopar accessory, which means it’s not box stock, but there has been no cutting or welding either. Oh, and all of the Mopar parts have been painted Mopar Blue, and they all have a scannable bar code. There’s the usual 2.0-inch lift kit, high-top fenders, Rubicon front and rear steel bumpers, a Warn winch with an accessory winch guard, and seven-inch TYRI lights.
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There are also rock rails, a snorkel kit, and cowl lights. You can shoot your camera at 37-inch K03 tires and three kinds of wheels (the beadlock-capable ones are on the driver’s side, the non-beadlock ones on the passenger’s side, and a different type of beadlocker is the spare). There are tube doors, with (passenger) and without (driver) optional mesh covers. There’s all sorts of Mopar-branded stuff inside too, and of course it’s all blue and bar-coded. Motto: Go sick.
Jeep Wrangler 4xe Rubicon Sunchaser
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The Sunchaser is a bit more focused than the Blueprint, as it has a theme that’s closer to what you might do with yours. It starts with a Wrangler Rubicon 4xe, which is a fine place to start. It has a 2.0-inch Mopar lift to allow the fitment of 37-inch BFGoodrich KM3 mud-terrain tires. And to give it a bit more clearance, it has high-top steel fenders, which in this vehicle carry a vented concept. Up front is a Warn winch with a custom winch guard/push bar, and along the side it has rock rails. So far, it sounds like a standard build to me.
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There’s a roof storage rack that’s loaded with goodies. The storage boxes that replace the rear side windows are no doubt just for the concept because they’re not great from the standpoint of visibility—or removing your hard top. The other thing that has me curious is the Mopar Illuminat3 off-road pivoting light bar, deemed an accessory concept but looking good to me. It has six light pods, but they seem to keep clear of the freedom panels.
Jeep Gladiator High Top Honcho
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The Gladiator High Top Honcho is a bit of a kitchen sink, but we see where they’re going: to the toughest trails they can find. Sure, the heritage graphics are cool and all, but let’s look deeper. First, they’ve put it on 40-inch monster tires, but they’re still BFGoodrich KO3s. To make the motor pull that kind of tire diameter, there are Dana 60 front and rear axles with 5.38:1 gearing. Concept steel fender flares are necessary, and they’re probably concept because of the 40-inch tires. They have to lift the truck, too, and for that they have an AccuAir adjustable air suspension, which sells a kit that will lift a Gladiator four inches.
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There’s the normal stuff: a Warn winch and a modified front bumper from American Expedition Vehicles (AEV), trimmed so the 40s will clear at full lock. Rock-rail power steps have been fitted, and for once we see the advantage of the power-fold feature. You wouldn’t get into this thing any other way. There’s also a truck bed storage system and a bed roll bar. Finally, they topped it off with a color-matched hard top.
Jeep J6 Honcho
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What can we say about the J6 Honcho except . . . hmm. Why did they put this one in the accessory category? What could they possibly sell from this? It starts as a four-door Wrangler and has the same 118.4-inch wheelbase, but it has been customized into a two-door pickup with a box that is six feet long, not five feet like a Gladiator. Useful. And, truth be told, this is not the first time this has been at Easter Jeep Safari. I’ve seen it before. But this is more finished.
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It does have a few Mopar bits on it, like the two-inch lift, the 17-inch wheels, and the 37-inch BFGoodrich KM3 mud-terrain tires. Okay, so it has a triple-hoop front bumper guard with four five-inch TYRI lights and a Warn winch. But are the rear fenders real? Are the custom rock rails very custom? What of the custom roll bar with six TYRI lights (two are rear facing)? The spare tire carrier? More questions than answers, but we say build it!
