New Jeep Cherokee

[Ben]

Do not like.

A crossover? Really? The least you could have done Jeep, is let the Cherokee rest in peace and give this thing a new name.

[BobR]

 

What is that thing?!?!!?

I guess I will keep my 2008 until it falls apart going down the road some day.

bob

[RoadKingLarry]

Kill it with fire.

Hideous abomination, defiler of the Cherokee name. 

[dogmush]

That grill is pretty damn fugly.

It's getting pretty hard to find <3/4 ton, non unibody SUV's these days.

[Hawkmoon]

I guess I will keep my 2008 until it falls apart going down the road some day.

2008? The last Cherokee was made in 2001.

[BobR]

2008? The last Cherokee was made in 2001.

They call it that...but it is Grand.   

bob

[Hawkmoon]

That grill is pretty damn fugly.

It's getting pretty hard to find <3/4 ton, non unibody SUV's these days.

The "real" Cherokee was unibody. Didn't hurt it at all. It was far more off-road capable than the competing baby Blazers and Explorers. I took a stock '88 Cherokee on a trail ride once. I was with a Cherokee club, but at the trailhead the few of us with XJs joined up with several locals who were in built Wranglers. At the end of the ride they were shaking their heads in disbelief that a stock Cherokee had made it through "their" trail.

[dogmush]

The "real" Cherokee was unibody. Didn't hurt it at all. It was far more off-road capable than the competing baby Blazers and Explorers. I took a stock '88 Cherokee on a trail ride once. I was with a Cherokee club, but at the trailhead the few of us with XJs joined up with several locals who were in built Wranglers. At the end of the ride they were shaking their heads in disbelief that a stock Cherokee had made it through "their" trail.

learn something new every day.  I thought they had frames.

[lupinus]

What is that thing?!?!!?

I guess I will keep my 2008 until it falls apart going down the road some day.

bob

An abomination built off of a dodge dart.

[charby]

I would imagine that majority of Jeep owners never leave the pavement with their vehicles.

[dm1333]

Do not like.

A crossover? Really? The least you could have done Jeep, is let the Cherokee rest in peace and give this thing a new name.

I like it.  Jeep purists hate the Patriot too but it sells pretty well and it is all the Jeep I really need.  If this allows Jeep to expand and take a little business from Ford and Subaru I'm all for it.

[Kingcreek]

I don't like it. Whatever else it has or doesn't, it lacks ground clearance. My first Cherokee was a '74 Chief with a 360ci 4 barrel and full time 4WD with that old chain drive quadratrac transfer case and a diff lock. It was built like a friggin tank. Had one Cherokee and 2 grand C's since. Gave the last one to our daughter with 186k miles on it and its still running at 238k now on the 4.0 inline 6cyl.

[Ben]

To once again veer one of my own threads, what's the deal with the low profile tires? I'm seeing them on quite a few 4X4s. A buddy with a new 4Runner has them as well. Are they just being put on the, as Charby alludes to, "4Xs" that don't go offroad? I don't really know anything about them, other than I see them on a lot of street vehicles. I would think they would not be good offroad tires because for one thing, it doesn't seem like you have much leeway if you want/need to lower the air pressure for certain conditions.

[RevDisk]

So, it's a normal boring SUV..?

How is that a crossover?

[Boomhauer]

To once again veer one of my own threads, what's the deal with the low profile tires? I'm seeing them on quite a few 4X4s. A buddy with a new 4Runner has them as well. Are they just being put on the, as Charby alludes to, "4Xs" that don't go offroad? I don't really know anything about them, other than I see them on a lot of street vehicles. I would think they would not be good offroad tires because for one thing, it doesn't seem like you have much leeway if you want/need to lower the air pressure for certain conditions.

It's all about style, yo.

Which is why we have jacked up pickup trucks and SUVs with very low profile tires on them. No, I don't even pretend to understand it, I just see it all the time and can only reach one conclusion- idiots

[Regolith]

So, it's a normal boring SUV..?

How is that a crossover?

It crosses all of the worst characteristics of a car with all of the worst characteristics of an SUV.

Hence, crossover. 

[Jamisjockey]

This is what a cherokee should look like

[41magsnub]

No sir, I don't like it.  I always thought of a Cherokee is a classic truck framed SUV.  Now, it is no more of an offroad vehicle than my outback is.

[Gewehr98]

Dodge Dart II chassis? 

Icky-poo.   

[Tallpine]

To once again veer one of my own threads, what's the deal with the low profile tires? I'm seeing them on quite a few 4X4s. A buddy with a new 4Runner has them as well. Are they just being put on the, as Charby alludes to, "4Xs" that don't go offroad? I don't really know anything about them, other than I see them on a lot of street vehicles. I would think they would not be good offroad tires because for one thing, it doesn't seem like you have much leeway if you want/need to lower the air pressure for certain conditions.

I dunno - the low profile tires on our little car can be nearly "flat" before they show any sign of reduced air pressure.  

You have to check them with a gauge.


As far as the new "Cherokee", I think they should have called it the "Wannabee"  

[SADShooter]

Another mall-terrain vehicle. Yay. (Where's the yawnicon?)

[charby]

Comsumer demand is what drives vehicle design, I guess not enough people demand a hard core off road vehicle from the factory.

[Jamisjockey]

No sir, I don't like it.  I always thought of a Cherokee is a classic truck framed SUV.  Now, it is no more of an offroad vehicle than my outback is.

The little cherokees were unibody.  The little comanche had a hybrid unibody front with framerails for the bed.

And now you know.

[Hawkmoon]

So, it's a normal boring SUV..?

How is that a crossover?

An SUV is a station wagon body plunked onto a pickup truck chassis (basically).

A "crossover" is an econo-car chassis with a body (and advertising) intended to make it appear to be off-road capable.

[Jamisjockey]

An SUV is a station wagon body plunked onto a pickup truck chassis (basically).

A "crossover" is an econo-car chassis with a body (and advertising) intended to make it appear to be off-road capable.

This.

Most "SUVs" aren't, anymore, but just glorified cars/minivans.