Month: August 2017

By the time next year’s Toledo Jeep_® Fest rolls around, the region will have added more than 1,000 new automotive jobs, and the Toledo Assembly Complex will be back at full tilt building the next version of the venerated Jeep Wrangler.

So forget — for just a moment — all the history. Toledo isn’t just Jeep’s birthplace and a point of local pride. It’s also major part of Jeep’s future.

That, event organizers say, is key to what they’re trying to do in August, 2018, with the second Toledo Jeep Fest.

“We’re not only celebrating our past, which is pretty much what we did last year. We’re also at the same time embracing a very exciting future for Jeep in Toledo, Ohio,” Bruce Baumhower, president of UAW Local 12, said Thursday at a Jeep Fest news conference held downtown at Levis Square.

Read the full article from the Toledo Blade: http://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2017/08/11/Toledo-Jeep-Fest-looks-to-brand-future.html

The Toledo Jeep_® Fest will live on.

Organizers of last year’s wildly successful event have confirmed that the celebration of all things Jeep will go on hiatus in 2017, but return with a multiday program next August.

“We heard from the public. They wanted to have another Toledo Jeep Fest,” said event spokesman Whitney Rofkar.

Organizers plan to replicate last year’s Jeep-only car show and parade, though they expect to add more vendors and other new features.

Notably, that could include some sort of off-road exhibition, something many Jeep enthusiasts had clamored for.

Read full article in the Toledo Blade: http://www.toledoblade.com/Automotive/2017/08/10/Jeep-Fest-to-roar-back-in-2018-after-a-year-off.html