Jeep Cherokee (Liberty) test drive since 2007 SUV

Stay roots

I asked myself what could make me get this car for personal use? To allocate from a plentiful modern sentence, to love? Frankly, I had to strain properly to imagine myself to be the owner of a lupo -eyed American.
 
With the version of the corporate choice, everything is clearly not looking for the gift horse in the teeth. However, in this case, you can easily find several advantages for yourself, which will be discussed below. Another option for example, if I were a native of Texas and live in Russia, I would probably buy a jeep for myself and nostalgic for American Fatherland, easily overcoming Russian road obstacles. As if our emigrant, having stolen in the lost homeland, acquired his native UAZ in the United Native.
 
Agree, there is a lot of Russian in UAZ, and it perfectly corresponds to a nostalgic mood. I also presented an extreme situation with the need to overcome the terrible off-road to save someone’s life in a completely wild place. As an extreme option. I think that in this case a harmless look of an Indeze would not save, completed a difficult task, climbed and carried, forcing himself to love. Then I would go and bought myself such a car. For those who have passed a serious test together become real friends.
But in our Moscow, the road seems to be already in order, again, a car industry with a car market will not be trampled on the spot, and today, taking into account their diversity, the Jeep Cherokee choice is not at all obvious.
 
Although, in truth, it is not so bad for the American condo SUV. For me, it’s so good, outwardly. The style of the old Jeep warrior is preserved. The silhouette is okay complicated, proportional. The color is very nothing. However, if the history of Jeep does not know, and to judge the brand only by Grand Cherokee, the assessment may be lower. And let's not forget that the current generation was debuted back in 2001. Veteran already.
 
But the salon gives birth to an unpleasant review. If you formally look at the positions, everything seems to be: skin decoration, audio system, heating the seats, air conditioning ... But at the same time the interior makes a rather miserable impression. The point is in a cheap plastic, which is trimmed with the front panel, doors and some other elements. The uncomplicated architecture of the salon is also to blame. Moreover, completely rigid plastic also has the color plain.
I think if he was even black, it would look better. The same can be said about the leather finish of the seats: a gross shiny surface of the inexpressive ring. Somehow, all this looks in aggregate, the longing for anyone will be. In general, the interior is typical American. And obsolete. But everything is, and sitting is comfortable.
 
Under the hood of a 2.8-liter turbodiesel. It is worth buying a car with this power engine and traction that is pleasant for a medium-sized jeep, and it consumes fuel in a child (we succeeded from 12 to 14 liters in a mixed cycle). Together with the diesel engine, a rather quick five -speed automatic is working with a diesel engine. No complaints.
At one time, the new Cherokee struck everyone uncharacteristic for classic crooks JEEP with a supporting body. In front he has a completely independent suspension, and only behind the rudiment remained in the form of a bridge. But without springs. However, according to the Rules of the Road, the rear bridge is not a rudiment, but the necessary attribute of the genre.
 
Jeep Cherokee fully and fully meets the concept of a real SUV. But on the asphalt, he performed quite articulate. Even despite the rolls, an empty and long steering wheel. It accelerates cheerfully, is not lost in the city, and on the highway it unexpectedly split up to 190 km/h along the speedometer. The brakes were also very decent. The trunk is large, but sitting in the second row is inconvenient. There is not enough space, and there’s nothing to seize in a turn. And the seats are flat-fruitful ...
 
The avid gigipo here will probably grunted displeasedly, our brother-journalist will be remembered with an unkind word. And I understand him. I understand that for him the most important thing in the cabin, and indeed in this machine, a black lever sticking out of the central tunnel. And do not look for Freudian background here, this is a selector of the Cherokee all -wheel drive transmission. By default, the car is rear -wheel drive. But it can be made with all -wheel drive, block the central and rear inter -normal differentials, turn on the lowering gear. Leave the city, go to the quarry and work miracles. Genes and pedigree brands send us into impassable jungle, from which jeeps always came out by winners. The only trouble is that in the city all these off -road lotions are only ballast, and there are not many real fans of off -road art.
 
The most budgetary modification of the SUV is estimated at 29 900. This is a machine in the Renegade configuration with a 3.7-liter V6 and a 4-speed automatic. Other versions are more expensive. So, for the gasoline Cherokee Limited (the same motor plus 5-speed automatic transmission), dealers ask for about 33,400. For diesel limited, like what has been on our test, you will have to give the same 33,400.
 

Nikolai Ilyin

A source: Motor magazine [January-February 2007]