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What Would You Drive To Your High School Reunion?

Ray Wert — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:30:00 EST

Now that we've given you an opportunity to help us determine what I'll be driving to my high school reunion, we're interested in knowing what car you'd drive and why. Yes, we've asked this question once before, and got some great responses — but in honor of this Turkey Day weekend, and my little soirée on Saturday — we figure it's appropriate to ask it again. So talk to us this Black Friday and tell us what you'd be pulling up to the door driving.

Jeep JT Concept vs 2008 Corvette Z06: What Should Wert Drive To His High School Reunion?

Ray Wert — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:30:00 EST

I was the fat kid in high school. There, I said it. In fact, I was what you'd call "unpopular" — I'd never get invited to the parties, never got the date with the cheerleader and most certainly never drove the cool car. But all that pent-up pain and angst finally has the opportunity to release itself this Saturday with my high school reunion at Como's in Ferndale, MI. You see, a reunion's the perfect place to finally get one's comeuppance on the "cool kids" — whether it's through losing weight, taking the cheerleader with you or driving a cool car. I'll be trying to do all three — but for purposes of our loyal readers here at Jalopnik the a priori issue at hand is the car. And luckily, I happen to, as an auto ~~journalist~~ ~~hack~~ ~~pundit~~ blogger, have a decent number of options in front of me. I've narrowed my choices down to two diametrically opposite vehicles — the Jeep JT concept and the new 2008 Corvette Z06. Now here's the fun part — I want your advice as to what you think I should be rolling up to Como's in and then later today we'll be asking you what car you'd drive if you had unlimited options in a very special high school reunion edition of the Question of the Day. Then on Monday, come back here and we'll find out which one I ended up rolling down Woodward Avenue in and why. For the time being check out the shots below of the two choices and then hit the jump for the poll to help us answer the question at hand:

The Mystery Of The Jeep Pickup Truck Prototypes Solved: They're Being Sold To Egypt, Israel...Or Somewhere Not Here

Ray Wert — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 13:45:00 EDT

We were wondering where those Jeep pickup prototypes we showed you earlier were going and now, we've got an answer from spy photographer of the star-cars, Brenda Priddy. OK, it's actually from Phil Howell of Off-Road magazine, who she's quoting, but anyway here's the deal:

"The Jeep you see here is one of the units built to sell (hopefully) to the Egyptian military. As you can see, the rear doors are welded shut and, on the inside load floor, there's a pickup-style steel bed. It's powered by a diesel, has rear leaf springs and a rear Dana 60.

I understand that, while there are a number of these built, the deal hasn't been made yet with Egypt (or Israel, etc.). There are no plans to offer this in North America." Phil Howell, Off-Road Magazine

So basically, we're building them over here so we can fight them over there or something? That's so very sad.