All of Jeep's teasers for its Moab Easter Safari 2023 rigs

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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.

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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.

UPDATE 2023/03/19: A few days after that first teaser, Jeep released “Trailer Marker 2,” with three new sketches, posted to the end of the gallery below. We see what’s clearly a Wagoneer, very likely a standard model and not a Grand Waggy, considering it’ll be built for off-roading.

Besides that, there’s two more Wrangler and/or Gladiator sketches. The purple-toned image – love that hue – quite clearly has “Rubicon” spelled out across the hood, and again that font is outlined in blue, pointing our brains toward it being a 4xe hybrid—our guess is it could very well be the Gladiator 4xe, which Jeep has talked about but yet to show officially. The other bright-green Jeep wears a whole complement of performance parts, including a winch and some hella tall tires, but we’ve few leads on what else makes it so special.

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UPDATE 2023/03/24: “Trail Marker 3” has finally dropped and, well, we were right about there being a Magneto 3.0 hitting the trails in Utah this year, just wrong about which sketch was teasing it. One of the final two sketches shows off a Wrangler with clear “Magneto 3.0” lettering on the hood, worked into a very loud (and perhaps patriotic?) red-white-and-blue paint scheme. The electric Jeep returns! Who wants to bet it’ll boast more than the 625 horsepower the previous iteration did?

As excited as we are for the return of that model, what’s really got us going is what looks like a classic Wagoneer in Jeep’s final teaser. The automaker seems to every year bring out at least one way-retro restomodded model, squeezed in between all the new hardware, to appeal to fans of older off-roaders. We’re really digging what appear to be slotted mag wheels; and a throwback side-body graphic.

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Don’t expect the chassis or drivetrain to be so old-fashioned, though. As we’ve noted above re: the colour blue, the turquoise-tinted tow hooks jutting out of this Jeep’s bumper point to some sort of electrification, and if we had to bet, said retrofit has likely been pulled off after swapping the body onto a modern Wrangler JL platform, or some similar wizardry.

But what will be particularly interesting this year is if, 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.

We’ll find out sooner than later at this point, since Jeep will be bringing these seven concepts to the Safari, held April 1 through 9, in just a few weeks. In the interim, you can check out the details of current Jeep vehicles via our online shopping tool.