Jeep Grand Cherokee test drive since 2010 SUV
Jeep Grand Cherokee V8 5.7 looks like AK-47
Jeep Grand Cherokee 5.7 Hemi looks like a Kalashnikov assault rifle, its slaughter force requires a balanced approach ... Perhaps this model can be compared with any automatic small arms, but I shot only from the AK-47. And here is what I remember: you can’t keep your finger on the trigger for a long time, otherwise the barrel goes up, and the store quickly empty.
The optimal mode is short lines of two or three shots.
Exactly the same story with Grand Cherokee 5.7. If you press the accelerator pedal stronger and hold it, the jeep lifts his nose up, and gasoline begins to fly into the pipe by the Niagara waterfall. But there is no way to carefully handle gas.
Grand at the height of position: Road clearance now 270 mm
Decent off-road geometry and 20-inch wheels strange combination
To a light trembling
Let me remind you what it is about. Engine 5.7 Bleaning gasoline V8 with hemispherical combustion chambers of increased capacity. In modern performance, it is equipped with a system for changing the course of valves. It is only 70 horses in it than version 3.6, but the torque of a solid 520 nm (167 more than that of 3.6). And during acceleration, this difference is noticeable especially up to 6080 km/h. It is so noticeable that both in the city and off -road have to closely follow your right foot ... And at idle it is felt that under the hood something: Grand is barely noticeable, like an impatient stallion before the race. The beast ... and his appetite, by the way, is wild. The city turned out liters 3035 per hundred (although the computer, of course, showed 2526). However, potential owners should not worry such trifles, since the gas tank includes 93.1 liters.
The tree on the front panel is real, and dermatin too. However, on the seats genuine leather nappa
Elevator
The top version of the Grand Cherokee 5.7 is mandatory equipped with an air suspension that allows you to change the body level. This aerolift goes to five floors: PARK (clearance 165 mm) / Aero (190 mm) / Normal (205 mm) / OFF-ROD I (238 mm) / OFF-ROD II (270 mm). The thing is good, but there are nuances. Firstly, when switching the automatic transmission to the parking position, the pneumatic tired of washing off from the altitude of Off-Road II to the road position. However, after the transition to a reduced series of programs, Grand passed everything. Secondly, it is better to forget about our national entertainment on a crossed area with hooting. With the body raised to the upper position, the suspension ceases to be comfortable. But in the usual, road position, it provides decent controllability corresponding to 5.7, and smoothness.
You can look at the scale of the economizer without pain only when the motor is turned off
Leather, xenon, sideboard
The main differences in the Overland equipment from Limited Ventilated front chairs with a better leather upholstery, the front panel, covered with premium dermatin varieties and inserts from natural wood on it. And the steering wheel with heating, decorated in the upper part under the old sideboard. And there are many more, in detail described on the manufacturer’s website. So do not be surprised at the price of $ 87,900.
Do not understand electronics
Honestly, for my taste 5.7 is harsh for the city. He immediately takes you for the living and does not allow you to relax, pushing to constant maneuvering. However, for daily Moscow road madness, this is what is necessary. The main thing is not to forget to turn off the front parking lots. Stupid electronics does not understand that half a meter to the next car is still a lot.
Author: Savva Safonov, photo Victoria Pavlova
Source: Magazine 4x4 [May /2010]
