UPDATE:

Detroit 2013: Jeep CEO Favors Wrangler-Based Pickup

Last September in Orlando, Jeep CEO Michael Manley,  set Jeep forums and internet chat rooms ablaze by hinting that a Jeep pickup truck was in the future. No one knew what the tuck was or where it came from? Until now.

Sales of the Mopar Wrangler Pickup conversion kit have been pretty good?

very good. The demand was much higher than we expected.

High enough to get Jeep thinking about a Jeep pickup truck? 

We're thinking about it, yes, but not before the next-generation Wrangler.

So a Jeep pickup wouldn't be something else? A unibody pickup, perhaps? 

Listen: we already have a commercial truck brand, where there are commercial businesses and markets that use these trucks. We're a different brand. I don't like the term "lifestyle brand", so we can do things differently. It would be more appropriate for a Jeep pickup to come off the Wrangler platform, because we still want the pickup to have that Jeep capability. Obviously, the Wrangler provides more capability than any other model.

I know that we've done different versions of pickup trucks in the past, but a Wrangler-based pickup is the more interesting option.