JK.... What does it mean?
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If you take the letters of the alphabet and their ordinal number, you get J=10 and K=11. Added together that equals 21. 21 in Roman Numerals = XXI. XXI = 10, 10, and 1. If you add 10+10+1, you get 31. There are 31 days in January, March, May, July, August, October, and December. The Jeep model year comes out in August, which as previously noted as 31 days. Therefore, the obvious name for the new Jeep was"JK".
Duh.
Duh.
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You guys will get a kick out of this. my wife and i have two grand daughters, 1 is 5 y.o. and the other is 3 y.o. We had nothing to do with their naming. Our daughters named the children. One is named Jaelyn and the other is named kayleigh.
When we bought the JK in 08 I had a custom tag made that ended in 08JK. When at the Jeep Jamboree in PA. a couple of summers ago I bought the bumper letter sticker that read, "it's a JK thing, you wouldnt understand" The wife and one of the daughters think that the I put the JK all over the Jeep in referance to the grand daughters. For the first two years, I didnt tell them any different and let them believe thats what it stood for. I finally clarified things last summer at the Jamboree in PA. Because there were some Jeeps there with the JK sticker and she wanted to know why they were displaying it. I told her the same thing as someone here already posted, in regard to the CJ, TJ, YJ etc. And a couple years ago we test drove a KJ Liberty but wanted something a little bit bigger. I still get a kick out of listening to them talk about it .
When we bought the JK in 08 I had a custom tag made that ended in 08JK. When at the Jeep Jamboree in PA. a couple of summers ago I bought the bumper letter sticker that read, "it's a JK thing, you wouldnt understand" The wife and one of the daughters think that the I put the JK all over the Jeep in referance to the grand daughters. For the first two years, I didnt tell them any different and let them believe thats what it stood for. I finally clarified things last summer at the Jamboree in PA. Because there were some Jeeps there with the JK sticker and she wanted to know why they were displaying it. I told her the same thing as someone here already posted, in regard to the CJ, TJ, YJ etc. And a couple years ago we test drove a KJ Liberty but wanted something a little bit bigger. I still get a kick out of listening to them talk about it .
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Do you mean if it really added up to 31 it WOULD have made sense??
Hmmm... maybe I missed the mark on that one.
On closer examination, a "Kilo" is a measure of weight. "Juliet" is a satellite around Uranus. The new Jeep can haul more weight (properly equipped) than previous versions, so Juliet Kilo means in addition to our fat asses, it can haul more stuff. Juliet Kilo is the military call sign for "JK", therefore....
Now does THAT make sense?
