Jeep Car Yard Adelaide: The Jeep Identity

Australian comedy legend Barry Humphries has won the prestigious title of ‘Australian of the Year’ in the UK. Joking that it was a choice between Julian Assange or him, the veteran comedian collected his award at Australia House in London.

Humphries is probably best known as alter ego Dame Edna Everage, the larger-then-life persona with “wisteria hue” hair and cat-eye glasses.

But Humphries isn’t the only one with a colourful alter ego. Film, television and literature are full of them. You only have to open a comic book to see average looking journalist Clark Kent turning into Superman (amazing what difference a pair of glasses can make), Bruce Wayne fighting crime in Gotham city as Batman or Peter Parker scaling tall buildings and catching the bad guys with his Spider senses.

Alter egos have often been used to allow people to do or say things that they never normally would. Sacha Baron Cohen’s Kazakh journalist Borat is a great example of letting a persona run wild. In music, Marshall Mathers (Eminem / Slim Shady), David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust) and Brian Warner (Marilyn Manson) were all created to give the performers licence to be eccentric.

But some things don’t need to pretend to be anything they’re not. Like Jeep, Dodge or Chrysler Adelaide. Although you could say that the Jeep does have two sides, the impressive executive car of the city and the rugged four-wheeled drive of the great outdoors.

This is especially evident in the Jeep Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited, available from a Jeep car yard in Adelaide near you. Their ability to turn from a four-door urban vehicle to a no-door, no-roof and even no-windshield outdoor drive, means that whatever your mood, the Wrangler or Wrangler Unlimited will be able to match it.

This might get you thinking about your own alter ego. During the week you drive to work at the office, tie done up tight, briefcase on the passenger seat. Then there is the ‘weekend you’, the one who drives through the Outback or down to the beach in your Jeep Wrangler Adelaide. With its doors off and roof down. Sun on your face and wind in your hair, the office a million miles away and the freedom to go wherever your Jeep will take you.

Just remember to put the doors and roof back on before you get back to town, otherwise your secret identity as a four-wheeled adventurer might get out.

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