High School Students Design A Jeep Wrangler For 2030

The winners of FCA’s 2018 Drive for Design contest have been announced after U.S. high school students in grades 10-12 were tasked with designing a Jeep Wrangler for the year 2030.

Taking top honors was Eduard Cret from Design and Architecture Senior High in Miami, Florida. Second place was awarded to Emily Bryson, also from Design and Architecture Senior High while third place was claimed by Jinho So from the Canisius High School in Buffalo, New York.

Of the three, it is the winner’s design which we like the most. Like the current Wrangler, it has a boxy and compact shape and has been imagined in two-door guise with flared wheel arches painted in bright orange and complemented with orange side skirts.

At the front, the Wrangler includes a bold and aggressive hood with large air extractors as well as a pair of LED headlights and slim turn signals. The front grille also appears to be a large display that can show a variety of images.

While these elements of the Wrangler are cool, there’s one part which stands out; the windscreen. The windscreen is made from a large piece of glass that’s bent in the center and stretches over a foot onto the off-roader’s roof. Such a design could probably never pass crash regulations but it certainly creates an interesting look and would make the driving experience that little more unique.

The three winners will enjoy a day at the FCA US Product Design studios, a two-week summer automotive design course at Lawrence Technological University, an Apple iPad and Apple Pencil, Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16 and passes to the ‘EyesOn Design Automotive Design Exhibition’ in Michigan.