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Autoweek just posted a set of 6 spy photos of a camouflaged 4-dr Wrangler that were taken recently in southern Michigan.

Spy photos of the 4-dr model really aren’t anything new, and even though the grille is clearly visible through the mesh front of the vinyl camo caldding we’ve already seen it fully revealed earlier this month. These new photos don’t seem like anything special… until you get to photo #4 and realize that the back and roof “camo” is actually a completely uncovered soft top!

Even though the 2-dr Wrangler has been revealed, we haven’t been shown any photos of it with a soft top—only photos with the hard top or no top at all—so this is the first time we actually get to see what the soft top looks like. Cool stuff.

The 4-dr model won’t be fully unveiled until the New York Auto Show in April, so for now we’ll still have to setttle for spy shots of it. The new Autoweek spy shots are available here.

The official press release for the new 2007 Wranglers is finally out… time to get some sleep now…

Thanks to some scans of the February 2006 issue of mph magazine, official photos and info on the 2007 Wrangler have been leaked! And a whopping 5 days before DCX lifts their media embargo too! And it looks virtually identical to the Gladiator concept shown this exact time last year.

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Americancarfans.com has just published 13 spy photos of a camouflaged Jeep Compass doing some snow testing. The pictures accompany a small blurb about the vehicle, but there’s no new info in the text. You can check out the pics and blub here.

What’s really interesting is a series of photos where it looks like the Compass slid off the road into a ditch in the snow. Almost amazingly the vehicle is able to drive back out on its own though. Considering it’s sunk in probably 6” or more of snow, the road is visibly slick from packed snow and ice, and it’s got the rear driver-side tire in the air most of the time, I’m pretty impressed it was able to drive out without help… which makes me wonder if the driver really did slid off of accident, or if they did it on purpose as part of the testing. Either way it looks like Jeep’s new little soft-roader will be packing a pretty nice traction-control system.

Despite the camo coverings on the front and rear, the test vehicle does look very much like the Compass concept, and from a rear perspective view it also seems to me to bear an strong resemblence to the Porsche Cayenne.