A team of engineers from Chrysler’s Jeep brand recently paid a trip to an organization that focuses on restoring the Jeep Grand Wagoneer. The trip, ostensibly to benefit concerning the classic vehicles, may signal that Chrysler Group is thinking about its heritage in developing an all-new Jeep Grand Wagoneer.

Texas-based Wagonmaster buys, restores, and sells old Jeep Grand Wagoneers. The corporate has restored greater than 1575 Grand Wagoneers over the past 19 years. In accordance with an email that the corporate posted to its Facebook page, a set of Jeep engineers visited because, “You have a rich history of Jeep and may help us stay true to the heritage of the emblem on future vehicles,” and so they could ask, “What are the main original details of the Grand Wagoneer that ought to always be kept”

A Jeep spokesman told us he couldn’t touch upon the report, in view that the corporate has a policy of not discussing future product plans.

We know that Chrysler Group is thinking about building a brand new seven-seat model which may revive the Grand Wagoneer name. The most important current Jeep, the Grand Cherokee, seats only five, whereas the Dodge Durango has three rows. On the Detroit auto show, Jeep CEO Mike Manley told Automobile Magazine that plans for a 3-row model are “very much alive… There’s definitely room for a 3-row model inside the range, and I’d want to pursue it once possible.” And a Grand Wagoneer figures within the company’s latest three-year plan, with a scheduled debut in 2015. We noted the opportunity of a revived Grand Wagoneer as early as 2004.

Given that the model won’t likely be introduced by 2015, we don’t expect to peer even an idea version of the Jeep Grand Wagoneer for a minimum of a year

Sources: Wagonmaster (Facebook), Chrysler