Test drive Jeep Grand Cherokee 2010, review Jeep Grand Cherokee 2010 photo

Impression

I really understood the car after 5-7 thousand km and I will say the following – the Jeep Grand Cherokee is completely different compared to the cars that I and my friends had. Feels like a premium car.

I have done 9,000 km already, and I like it more and more. It has a very cool and beautiful interior: everything is illuminated, all electric adjustments, it heats and cools perfectly. The stove-hair dryer turned on and it was immediately warm in the cabin, even if the engine was still cold.

A very small consumption of anti-freeze, and the consumption of a solarium comes out somewhere around 11.5 liters in the city, and 8-9 liters on the highway (if you don’t drive too much, although the car knows and loves it).

And how he rides! Powerful and assertive at any speed. At least 100 km / h, at least 160 km / h – he does not care, since there is always and everywhere traction. I confess, I was caught by the traffic police on the M4 in the Rostov region. I was driving at 181 km/h. They asked where are we going? I answer them that a car cannot drive slowly.

On the road, the car is respected. I really began to be noticed in the stream. Wanted to rebuild – please! Yes, and I have become much more polite. In general, the car changes me for the better!

Off-road climbed so far only in the snow. Car crawls like a cockroach. He doesn’t care if you go uphill or downhill. I drove along the prepared Jeep Territory track, looked at everything clearly and, most importantly, they told me about how all these off-road gadgets work.

It’s too early to talk about reliability, since the car is still new. Of the shortcomings I want to note the trunk. In Xtrail, it is more convenient in terms of layout, but there is no electric drive. With rubber, I missed, it was necessary to put spikes, as the car is heavy and powerful.

There is no point in comparing off-road performance, since Ixtrail is still rather weak for off-road use. There is no lowering, no hard blocking, and he does not like the diagonal. I got stuck a couple of times on the X-Trail. There is no such thing in the Grand Cherokee – he calmly creeps where he needs to and where he needs to.

About the drive: X-Trail is front-wheel drive with a rear axle connected, while the Grand Cherokee uses both a rear (60%) and a front axle (40%), which also affects the driving style. Jeep drags more noticeably when accelerating.

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Equipment Jeep Grand Cherokee

The most important update of the Jeep Grand Cherokee 2014 is not in the external performance and not even in the interior, but first of all in the new eight-speed automatic transmission, which is equipped with all Cherokees without exception. The new transmission was developed by Jeep engineers in collaboration with ZF, a well-known manufacturer of transmissions. Jaguar cars are equipped with a similar system.

A pleasant moment is the setting of this “machine”. A large car requires a lot of fuel, so the developers have to “play” with the settings to reduce fuel consumption. An example of this is the Touareg, whose gearbox is constantly shifting “up”, resulting in the impression of jerky driving. In this regard, Jeep engineers managed to achieve the golden mean between dynamics and fuel consumption. The Jeep Grand Cherokee shifts cleanly without suffering too much love of nature, but at the same time the consumption is about 7.5 liters per hundred in mixed driving mode (3.0 TD V6).

Now let’s take a closer look at the configuration and technical characteristics of the Jeep Grand Cherokee. Three engines will be supplied to Russia, two of which are gasoline and one diesel:

• 3.0 TD V6 – 241 hp diesel engine. With.
• 3.6 V6 – atmospheric V-shaped six, which is capable of developing power up to 286 horsepower.
• HEMI V8 6.4 is the most powerful engine, with a value of 468 horsepower. Grand Cherokee SRT 8 is a charged version that owns a naturally aspirated American V8 of 624 Nm at 4100 rpm. By installing special chip tuning packages and a turbine, the power of this engine can be raised to over 1000 hp. With. As a result, the SRT has become the world’s fastest crossover 8 times.

The car is sold today in four trim levels – Summit, OverLand, Limited and Laredo. The first is the most expensive equipment. In the basic, that is, Laredo configuration, there are a number of such basic items as: 8 automatic transmissions, 18-inch alloy wheels, bi-xenon headlights, keyless entry to the car with a button to start the engine, electric folding mirrors, the rear-view mirror has an automatic dimming and multimedia system UConnect. The price of a Jeep Grand Cherokee in this configuration with a gasoline engine costs 2,119,033 rubles, you will have to pay a little more for a diesel engine – about 2,196,800 rubles.

The Limited package includes everything the same as the Laredo, plus leather-trimmed seats, heated first and second rows, a rear-view camera, parking sensors, and an electric fifth door. There is also a seat memory package. The price at the same time is 2,305,000 for a gasoline six and 2,505,000 rubles for a turbodiesel.

The luxury OverLand, in addition to the Limited options, has 20-inch wheels, Nappa leather-trimmed ventilated seats, a leather-wrapped panel, a panoramic sunroof, and adaptive cruise control. Jeep Grand Cherokee in this configuration costs 2,547,000 rubles with a gasoline power unit and 2,747,000 with a diesel one.

The most luxurious Jeep Grand Cherokee trim is the Summit, which includes custom-designed wheels, special Natura Plus trim, Harman Kardon acoustics, suede inserts and all OverLand options. The charged version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee costs from UAH 3,625,000.

Specifications Jeep Grand Cherokee

Car model:	Jeep Grand Cherokee
Manufacturer country:	USA (US assembly)
body type:	SUV
Number of seats:	5
Number of doors:	5
Engine volume, cu. cm:	3604 and 6417
Power, l. s./about. min.:	286/6350 and 468/6250
Maximum speed, km/h:	206 and 257
Acceleration to 100 km/h, s:	8.3 and 5
Type of drive:	full
Checkpoint:	8 automatic transmission
Fuel type:	gasoline AI-95
Consumption per 100 km:	city ​​8.2/14.3; track 10.1/20.7
Length, mm:	4828
Width, mm:	1943
Height, mm:	1781
Clearance, mm:	218
Tire size:	265/60R18 and 295/45R20
Curb weight, kg:	2418
Gross weight, kg:	2949
Fuel tank volume:	94

Interior

Let’s move on to the novelties hidden inside the SUV. The first thing that catches your eye when you get behind the wheel of the new Grand Cherokee is that the analogue speedometer has been replaced by a digital monitor. This update provides the driver with a wider range of information than a conventional analog speedometer. It is worth noting that this novelty, adjacent to standard mechanical devices: a tachometer, indicators of engine temperature and fuel quantity, does not look like a dropped element, but fits perfectly into the holistic image of the instrument panel.

The general penetration of large digital touch panels – monitors has also affected the center console of the car. Here, on modifications older than the Limited and Laredo, a large 8.5-inch touch screen took its place.

Technological motives touched the steering wheel and gearshift lever. Now the latter no longer carries out its main function, but is presented in the form of a joystick, which needs to select the type of operation of the automatic transmission. The steering wheel, on the other hand, has become richer in control elements – almost all the options of the car and the multimedia system. The rest of the minor changes in the interior, as well as in the exterior, are related to the refinement of some details that the designers considered to require changes.

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