With my many performance tests I kept sensing that the torque kicked in about one second after I pressed down on the accelerator and once it did it was buh-bye!Īnd once up to speed the Grand Cherokee handled beautifully with just the slightest touch of the steering wheel turning the wheels with ease. The motor is rated at 240 horsepower, but knocks out 420 foot-pounds of torque. What I will share with you is that the turbo diesel is very good off the line and has the strength to keep delivering power as you roar down the road. So there is no off-road review that I can deliver to my readers. In this case off-roading was a possibility too as the Limited was a 4WD and a trail-rated one at that.īriefly, I considered taking advantage of some off-road antics, but when one Andrew Roane tendered his offer to pull me out of a ditch if I got stuck, I remembered that the all-season tires were not up to handling the playing around that I had in mind. So when life hands you a turbo diesel you do what any sensible driver would do: you hit the road. That’s a shame too as you will find it impossible to pay less than $41,000 for any diesel-equipped Grand Cherokee, a price point far above the base $28,995 cost for the Laredo 4×2. That is if you choose any model besides the Laredo, because Jeep consigns those buyers to the smaller gasoline engine only.
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