The laughing part was for everything BUT the diesels. Notice I never addressed them; I feel better, more powerful, more fuel efficent diesels will have a place in K2XX’s.
That, and I feel J Jonah Jameson’s laugh is rather timeless and invaluable when confronted with weak arguments.
2-door SUV’s, with the exception of the Wrangler, are dead. The Wranger is in the same unique position as the Chevy’s “goldilock” Astro was; It really does have that small segment of compact 2-door SUV’s all to itself. Mind you, Jeep has expanded into other products that aren’t available in 2-door configurations, and even the Wrangler has a 4-door variant, but all those are engineered as dictated by market demands.
Furthermore, you can’t make the core argument for a full-size 2-door SUV on that “it looks better than a 4-door”, OR try to hang everything on wheather or not Lingenfelter gives a care and decides to breath on it. What you’re asking for is to take a niche product of a full-size 4-door SUV line, and hope that in the few thousand of those sold each year, a few dozen pass through the hands of Lingenfelter. That’s not a business case, that’s just a malformed dream that needs to have the fluff boiled off of it.
