近日，谍照记者拍到了牧马人皮卡照片。这辆双排座皮卡采用前后实心轴，备胎设置在货床下面。从引擎室伸出一些蓝色线束，从后门进入车厢内，或许是车厢内的电脑在采集一些参数。这辆车目前还处于早期测试阶段，该车要等到2020年底才会发布。预计量产版将恢复其历史上的名称“Gladiator”或“Comanche”。考虑到吉普在05年发布的一款概念车就命名为“Gladiator”，因此量产版采用该名称的可能性更大一些。该车动力系统预计将是一台四缸涡轮引擎，功率300马力，未来还将增加V6引擎。与引擎搭配的是八速变速箱。除了汽油引擎，涡轮柴油引擎也将列入计划。未来，牧马人皮卡还将增加混动版。
Jeep Wrangler Pickup Spied Up Close Riding High
After spying on the Jeep Wrangler pickup from afar some months ago, the workhorse is back in a more revealing set of images shot from a close distance.
Thanks to its significant ground clearance, the double cab prototype gives us the opportunity to check out some of the pickup’s innards, such as the front and rear solid axles and the spare wheel mounted underneath the bed. There are also some blue wires coming from the engine compartment and entering through the rear doors inside the cabin where there was likely a computer keeping a track of all the parameters.
The testing phase is far from being over as the Jeep Wrangler pickup is not expected to debut in production form until the end of the decade, according to the latest report. When it will eventually arrive, the model will supposedly bring back to life a historical name, so expect something along the lines of Gladiator or Comanche. The former would perhaps make more sense considering in 2005 there was a Wrangler-based pickup concept carrying this moniker.
Power will come from a turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline engine estimated to churn 300 hp and joined by an updated iteration of the larger V6 inside the existing model. Replacing the outdated five-speed transmission will allegedly be a more modern eight-speed ‘box while a thrifty version equipped with a turbodiesel engine is also on the agenda. Further down the line, the Wrangler pickup could even receive a hybrid powertrain.