![]() ![]() Functional heat extractors on the hood remove energy from under the hood (and are great at keeping hands warm). The SRT, in particular, adds a lot of blacked out trim (the headlights and taillights are slightly tinted) all around. The trademark Jeep seven slat grille makes another appearance, and the mostly squared-off design is rounded off in all the right places. ![]() The Jeep Grand Cherokee in its current generation has always been a fairly handsome truck – inoffensively styled and just the right size – if you’re looking for a two-row utility vehicle. ![]() Does a track-focused Jeep make any sense? Time to find out if all the SRT goodies added to the Grand Cherokee make it special. In the real world though, sometimes it’s the things that don’t make sense, that end up getting your attention. A truck that excels on the tarmac defies all those conventions. The traditional notion and image of what a truck should be defines them to be workhorses, carrying payloads, towing trailers, and doing some mudding (though not necessarily all at the same time). Hyper-trucks (as I like to call them) shouldn’t make sense. The SRT version of the Grand Cherokee takes the largest V8 and adds a ton of legitimate go-fast parts that really interest me. ![]() The current Jeep Grand Cherokee is one of their most versatile products, starting with a gasoline and diesel V6 to a set of gasoline V8s. The SRT brand (Street & Racing Technology) has dabbled in and around the Chrysler (now Fiat-Chrysler) group for several years now, stuffing the largest, most powerful motors they could find into pretty much the entire model lineup. It’s no body-on-frame truck, but differential locks are available as options. On the other end of the totem pole, the Grand Cherokee has evolved into more of an on-road cruiser that manages to maintain some of the famous Jeep off-road credentials. Even as the Cherokee changes to fit a newer demographic, it still maintains some semblance of what a legitimate off-road vehicle should be. Things like live-axles and locking differentials are quickly disappearing from the marketplace, but the Jeep nameplate soldiers on with their unique identity. Considering today’s ever-increasing demands on premium features and luxury, cars like the Wrangler fly in the face of convention by more-or-less sticking to an original formula. The Jeep brand has been known for a great deal of things, one of which is creating some of today’s most capable off-road vehicles. ![]()
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