First Drive: 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Wrangler Unlimited diesels

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Jeep’s Greatest And Brightest Shed Their Spark Plugs, Add Whoop-Ass

We’re all suitably bowled about by the chest-hair enhancing Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, with its compression-ratio gulping 6.4-liter Hemi V8 booming out 465 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque. Really like it all, but we have difficulty seeing everyone on Earth actually realizing its promised thirteen % development in fuel performance, considerably much less its pie-in-sky 450-mile variety. Give us a break, Jeep. Tell us anything, but don’t notify us to embrace this new raging V8 as the ecologists’ super SUV. It has Track mode, for the adore of Pete. Say howdy to $ five+ entertaining every single 10 or so miles when the SRT8 is driven as Jeep’s engineers have clearly meant. Then we dare you to tow anything and afford it. We’re by no indicates damning the utterly amazing SRT8, just saying…

One other latest improvement for Jeep in time for its 70th anniversary – over and above this most up-to-date Grand Cherokee lineup that continues to shine – is the almost 100-% far better (and now practically aggressive) Compass. Then, in the in the vicinity of future, the Patriot and Compass will probable – and rightly – merge into one particular model, there will be a new entry-degree “B SUV” and we suspect the Liberty will return to its suitable name, Cherokee. Top all of this off with the promised rebirth of the legendary Grand Wagoneer 3-row down the road, and it’s all searching correct on track.

So, where’s the widespread-rail immediate-injected turbo diesel?

The Europeans have just been shown their next-era Jeep turbo diesels and we had a chance to sample these newest and best oil-burners at the Fiat Auto proving grounds in Balocco, Italy. We grabbed the ones we like the most: the Grand Cherokee 4×4 Laredo with three.-liter CRD V6 and gnarly-yet-comfortable Wrangler Unlimited Sahara with 2.8-liter four-cylinder CRD and wondrous six-velocity manual. Word has it that the Grand Cherokee CRD is set to hit the States by late 2013. The Wrangler in Trail-Rated Rubicon guise with a 3. CRD V6 and six-pace manual is a lot of off-roaders’ dream chariot, but there is presently no speak of this satisfied-hour cocktail coming our way or even at any time exiting from Jeep’s Toledo, Ohio plant. That’d be a pity.

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