The new Jeep Grand Wagooner 2022! Is this the best family Jeep of alltime?

It's the boss's car. We can't mess it up."

That has been whispered in the halls of Fiat Chrysler's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, where the return of the Jeep Grand Wagoneer has been underway for at least a dozen years. And for most of that waiting period, Mike Manley has been both head of Jeep and the GW's longtime proponent. Today, Manley is the CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles—the boss. And the world is getting its first look at Jeep's latest project, one that is probably second only to the Jeep Wrangler in importance to the brand.

FCA has been promising the return of the Jeep Grand Wagoneer, a premium full-size three-row SUV to take on high-end Land Rovers, Lincolns, and Cadillacs for so long it was getting hard to believe it would ever really happen. The Wagoneer danced around in the five-year product plans laid out by former FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne. As plans expired and were replaced by new ones, the Wagoneer always remained. Only it kept being pushed down the priority list. We shudder to think how many concepts Ralph Gilles, FCA's head of design, had his team conjure up for the Wagoneer over the years.

The first members of the new Wagoneer family will arrive in the summer of 2021, starting with the regular-sized SUVs. The stretched versions (analogous to the Cadillac Escalade ESV, Lincoln Navigator L, and the long-wheelbase Range Rover) will follow later as production swells at the plant in Warren, Michigan, which also makes the Ram full-size pickup.