2014 Jeep Cherokee

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Quantum Theory

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New engine improves consumption by 45% and apparently has best in class capabilities... What do you think about the Juke-like headlight layout and creased grill? Weird styling for a Jeep. It is slowly growing on me...
 

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I was waiting for this one, as I thought it might be my next Jeep. Spy photos showed that it might have weird styling. Don't know if I can be seen in THAT however, but like I said, it is slowly growing on me.
 
Parts of that front-end are workable, but the kinked grill makes it look spastic.
 
The front looks like a pissed off chinaman. Pissed off and confused...
 
The jeep grill is iconic...

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And that new design turns the "classic and war-winning grill" into very emasculating territory if you ask me.

Trying to a page from the "Evoque handbook" maybe?
Accepting the fact that the luxury 4x4 SUV has become a mommy's car?

If anything... JEEP should have been the one marque to keep it boyish and manly; because, it's a JEEP! It won the flippin second world war right? Macgyver drove one! As have all the baddies from the 80's!

Wrong direction IMO. It shoulda gone more "Hummer" and less "Ssyangyong"
 
Comes with a cool new 8-speed gearbox, some kind of terrain response type system and a new Pentastar 3.2L V6... I think it will be good.
 
NO NO NO.

That is hideous.

I wish they would just go back to their roots and remake the cars that made them famous.
If they gave this a facelift with new interior and engine I'd be keen without a doubt.
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They can't make the same shaped car forever. Owning a box shaped Jeep, I can vouch that it is a horrible shape for fuel economy. With a headwind consumption climbs dramatically.

My first reaction was also WTF... but I'm starting to like it. As long as it can still do well off road, it should sell well.
 
Are Jeeps selling well? I thought the company is in *****. They are good offroad but thats about it.

Look at the new Range Rover. It still looks like a boxy old Range Rover but looks great and is also 30 something percent more aerodynamic and fuel efficient. Leave the Japanese & Korean looking designs to the Japanese & Koreans.
 
Another case of the designer dropping their glasses when arriving at the office :sick:
 
Crowley said:
Don't you think it is about time they changed a bit?
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NO!

It's the iconic look of a jeep! like a Porsche 911.

The one thing jeep had going for it, and it differentiated it from it's rivals was that it was it's OFF ROAD heritage.
Jeep never played in the ultra-luxury SUV class (Range Rover, Lexus and Land Cruiser), but it held it's own off road. Until the last iteration at least.
They were "the cheaper" SUV that still had decent off road capabilities. The, Grand Cherokee, the Cherokee and the Wrangler.

Then they came out with quite a few "in betweeners" and you could see how they moved from a bespoke off road SUV to a mommy's car. With "The Compass" and "The Patriot", one could see the design shift.
Lower ground clearance, unprotected undercarriages, running boards, chrome all over the place... etc.
The SRT8... wasn't built for off road at all!

It looks like Jeep are trading in what separated them from the competition.
And the truth is, The Japanese, the Koreans and the Germans will make a way better "soft off roader" than Jeep ever will. Their build quality is better and their engines will always be more powerful and cleaner. And their product will be better priced in that range.

You just know that the Toureg will be a better car, or a Q5, or a X3, or a ML, or a Prado... they will be built better for similar money.
And you know a Kia, Hyundai, Honda or Nissan will be cheaper and more reliable.

This won't even appeal to the American market (their bread and butter) due to it's "Korean lines". All the new American 4x4s are all square jawed with chiseled features.

It was always "If you want a go anywhere car, you buy a Landy, Land Cruiser... or for way less cash... you bought the Jeep."
Now... they've traded in their rugged and bold soul for market that is saturated with better products.
 
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