Jeep 40.4 – What exactly is it?

Jeep has been hinting at something big, and there are a multitude of theories floating around as to what exactly is coming. 

 

Here’s what we’re working with so far.

“A sign of things to come” read the tweet accompanying this image posted on June 21, 2021.

 

-but what does Jeep’s mysterious 40.4 tweet MEAN?

We’ve spent a lot of time crawling through all of the countless other articles casting guesses and compiled them here so that you don’t have to. With that being said, let’s figure out Jeep’s newest teaser.

 

Some folks in the auto field have made guesses that, while awesome, are extremely unlikely.

 

Guesses like that includes ground clearance (come on, now. That’s just a fantasy number), breakover angles, water fording (while possible, this would be a huge leap), mileage (haha), a wrangler roadster (this is perhaps the least likely of all of the guesses, as Jeep already has a bevy of new jeep vehicles in the works and the Wrangler already sells like hotcakes), climate control (this one wasn’t particularly inspired), and more increasingly crazy speculations.

One potentially valid possibility is that it’s referencing the kWh battery. The current Jeep Wrangler 4xe has a somewhat miniscule battery pack clocking in at 17.3 kWh, but a 40 kWh battery would take the electric-only range up to about a 50-mile area which is a third of the range of the comparably-equipped Nissan Leaf.

 

What we, along with at least one other automotive outlet, think is most likely to be the meaning behind Jeep’s 40.4 tweet is that it’s referencing tire size.

 

Just by googling Jeep on 40-inch tires, you’ll get a taste for 1. How extreme this looks and 2. How there is a precedent for it being done.

 

 

That’s as close as we can get to a definite answer for the time being, and even that is just speculation on our end. Here’s hoping that Stellantis will pull back the curtain on this 40.4 Jeep treat soon.

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