Find a trail through the archive.

Grand Cherokee began as AMC's XJC work, arrived under Chrysler, and announced itself when Bob Lutz drove a ZJ through plate glass at the 1992 Detroit show.

Forward Control, Comanche, Liberty, Commander, Compass, Patriot, and Renegade show how much Jeep history exists outside the CJ/Wrangler spine.

The name moved from a full-size SJ two-door to the packaging landmark XJ, then diverged by market during the Liberty era.

The MJ combined an XJ-derived unibody cab with a separate rear frame section to create Jeep's compact pickup.

A Renault Sport veteran widely credited as the father of XJ Cherokee, Castaing carried AMC's product-development culture and Grand Cherokee program into Chrysler.

Liberty replaced the XJ Cherokee in the US, while the boxy Commander briefly gave Jeep a dedicated three-row model.

Chapin closed AMC's 1970 Kaiser Jeep acquisition, creating the corporate setting for CJ-7, XJ Cherokee, and the long Grand Wagoneer run.

Go Devil, Hurricane, Dauntless, AMC inline-sixes, Hemi and Hellcat V8s, and the modern Hurricane inline-six map alliances, acquisitions, and changing vehicle missions.

The full-size SJ Cherokee brought sportier positioning and wide-track hardware; the compact XJ used unibody packaging to retain space while shrinking mass and dimensions.