JEEP Grand Cherokee 2013

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Autohoje - Jeep Grand Cherokee chega em setembro

O renovado SUV chega ao mercado nacional a um preço similar ao praticado na atual geração.

O Jeep Grand Cherokee chega ao mercado nacional em setembro com um preço similar ao praticado na atual geração (77 500 euros). As grandes novidades centram se no desenho exterior e interior, bem como no superior conteúdo tecnológico, com destaque para o novo ecrã multimédia sensível ao toque. Mecanicamente, a nova caixa automática de oito velocidades transfigura o 3.0 CRD de 250 cv, que ganha em prestações e, mais importante, em consumos e emissões.

Não perca todas as impressões Ao Volante, na próxima edição do Autohoje.

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Também queria colocar no tópico do touareg, mas não encontro

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O curioso é a diferença dos preços das versões diesel e benzina nos E.U.A. 3.0. CRD V6 (diesel) 240 bhp é ~55 mil dólares e o 5.7. hemi V8 (gasolina) 360 bhp é ~50 mil dólares! Quem nos dera.

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O curioso é a diferença dos preços das versões diesel e benzina nos E.U.A. 3.0. CRD V6 (diesel) 240 bhp é ~55 mil dólares e o 5.7. hemi V8 (gasolina) 360 bhp é ~50 mil dólares! Quem nos dera.

A Europa é que possui uma fiscalidade completamente bizarra

Fazendo uma analogia simples, um motor 4 cilindros turbo-diesel(Com acessórios como turbo, FAP, etc) custa sensivelmente o mesmo a produzir do que um V8 OHV, como o Chevy Small Block p.ex

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Grand Cherokee SRT (versão europeia)

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Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. DRIVEN. An expensive lesson

At crankandpiston.com, I’ve been lucky enough to drive Ferraris, Aston Martins, Porsches and the occasionalLamborghini. But this stands as the most expensive test drive I’ve ever conducted, courtesy of two whacking great speeding tickets.Turns out the 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is fast. Really quite fast.

While the newboy may share the 6.4-litre HEMI V8 under the skin of the Grand Cherokee we tested last June, it also comes with an extra 110hp and 75lb ft of torque. The car’s performance figures now stand at 470hp, 465lb ft, a top speed of 255kph, and 0-100kph in a staggering 4.9 seconds. At our disposal then is the most powerful Jeep vehicle ever made and an SUV that can out drag a BMW 435i M-Sport. Which goes a long way to explaining those tickets.

Aesthetically, the Grand Cherokee SRT8 doesn’t so much tease the performance lying beneath as smack you across the jaw with it. Building on the already handsome base of the Grand Cherokee, the SRT8 boasts a beefier bonnet with new air intakes, a brawnier front grille with added detailing, new blackened headlights, and – alongside new five-spoke 20-inch forged-aluminium wheels, chrome detailing about the windows and a ‘Grand Cherokee’ badge along the flanks – a cheeky tail lip rear spoiler. It’s a handsome look and an incredibly shouty one, designed more to leave pedestrians and fellow motorists quivering with fear than sit unnoticed outside the public library.



On the inside things get a little more civilised, though that’s not to say the cabin is any less spectacular. Alongside ‘SRT’ monikers on the steering wheel, along the door trim, on the floor mats and on the headrests, the black leather upholstery is interlaced with some rather sexy white stitching and aluminium-effect trim. On the centre console is Jeep’s updated infotainment system – complete with lateral acceleration readings and in-built 3G connection to help make the 2014 SRT8 the ‘most technologically advanced Jeep vehicle ever’ – navigating through which is a doddle via the 8.4-inch touchscreen. Further instrumentation is available via the new multifunction steering wheel, accessible once seated in the beautifully figure-hugging Nappa leather and suede seats. A few plasticky panels and a slightly too-cluttered dash can take the edge off slightly, but the overall effect is a striking one, offset nicely by plenty of head and legroom. It’s almost civilised, until you press the large red button on the dash marked ‘Start’.

BRWWAAAAAARRRRR!



Pull from the off is quite incredible, even in Auto. Use the rotary dial by the T-Handle shifter on the centre console to select Sport and the HEMI V8 grows yet more ferocious. Even in a vehicle weighing 2336kg, 470hp proves amazingly aggressive when the HEMI bear is poked. Fortunately said aggression doesn’t prove to be a one-trick pony, thanks to crisp changes via the new eight-speed automatic transmission. Be it through the T-handle shifter or the surprisingly high-quality paddle shifters, smooth gear changes allow aggressive acceleration to continue well into high revs, the growl from the V8 rising to near-ear popping levels. Should you feel adventurous enough to try launch control, a new Launch button by the T-Handle sends 70 per cent of the 465lb ft of torque to the rear wheels. The high performance Pirelli tyres grip rather than light up, the pull ferocious from 3/4000rpm wrenching your whole body back into the Nappa leather. Orthopaedic surgeons rejoice, the Grand Cherokee SRT8 is incredibly aggressive.

Which makes the Jeep’s capabilities through the corners that much more surprising. Standing more than six-feet tall, I had expected the SRT8 to roar into corners at full pelt only to understeer hilariously wide when faced with even the slightest undulations. I was mistaken. Feel for the front end is very strong, and thanks to good weight distribution and tweaked suspension and Bilstein dampers, balance through the corners is quite remarkable. Even at the most ambitious of speeds (two tickets, remember), the front and rear Pirellis cling to the tarmac impressively, encouraging you to wrestle with the weighty steering and push the SRT8 through the corners. The sheer size of the 2336kg behemoth means that you’ll never feel like you’re in a deluxe sportscar, but trace amounts of body roll means you’ll be able to push much further than you’d expect, which for a HEMI V8 bruiser, is seriously impressive.



A sprint with the new 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 then has told me much as I had expected: it’s big; it’s loud; it’s brash; it’s an animal. And yet said animal is also astonishingly nimble, capable of attacking the corners with poise and proving itself to be much more than just a big muscular SUV. Poke the bear and it will roar, but it will also prove a lot of fun to throw at the landscape.

Just don’t expect the contents of your wallet to stay put for too long.

Engine:	V8 / 6417cc
Power:	470hp @ 6000rpm
Torque:	465lb-ft @ 4300rpm
Transmission:	Eight-speed automatic 8HP70 / paddle shift driver interactive manual control and electronically modulated torque converter clutch
Front suspension:	Short and long arm independent (SLA) / coil springs / Bilstein adaptive damping suspension (ADS) / upper and lower-control arms (“A” arms) / stabilizer bar
Rear suspension:	Multi-link rear suspension / coil spring / Bilstein adaptive damping suspension (ADS) / aluminum lower control arm / independent upper links (tension and camber) plus a separate toe link / stabilizer bar
Brakes:	Vented disc with Brembo six-piston caliper and ABS 380mm x 34mm (front) / disc with Brembo four-piston caliper and single- channel ABS 350mm x 28mm (rear)
Wheels:	20 x 10-in front and rear / forged aluminum five-spoke 'Goliath'
Tyres:	P295/45 ZR20 / Pirelli Scorpion Verde
Weight (dry):	2336kg
0-100kph:	4.9sec
Top speed:	255kph

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Quanto custará um SRT destes cá em Portugal? Uns 120 mil,não?

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I really like the new Grand Cherokee. And I really like unreasonably large amounts of horsepower. So it stands to reason combining the two would make for a real hoot of a vehicle

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Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT - Teste

The relevance of a 6.4 litre, V8 Jeep might be lost in Pocket-lint's home country. But knowing we were heading to the States, we thought it high time we review a car with more of an American flavour on these pages. It needed to be something that could do justice to the stereotypes of its motherland – the domain of the SUV, land of Nascar racing and the spiritual home of the V8.The updated, 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee therefore sounded ideal. In SRT flavour, complete with aforementioned 6.4 litre V8 “hemi” engine, it might as well come wrapped in a star-spangled banner, so many American automotive stereotype boxes does it tick.

And so it came to pass that waiting for us in the dusk of an LAX parking lot, was the fastest of fast Jeeps, finished in "bright white clear coat" paint. Resplendent with front mask, wheels and interior all rendered in black, the bling set of clothes felt right at home in Tinsel Town. We weren't staying long though, for our final destination would be Las Vegas, followed by Palm Springs. Given these were the spiritual and actual home of a certain, long dead rock and roll legend and our car’s colour scheme, Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT was soon abbreviated to an appropriate nickname: "Elvis". As we shall see, the car and "The King" had more than a couple of similarities.



A voice of blockbuster proportions

First among these is a "voice" we could listen to all day. The "Hemi" bit in the name of this car’s engine refers to the hemispherical combustion chamber, which give Chrysler/Jeep’s V8s their unique sound. It’s a familiar rumbling V8 noise but cut across with a slightly off-beat wubawubawuba at idle. If you've ever been in the centre of London when a Chinook comes over, the sound and vibration isn't dissimilar.

This noise was particularly good when starting the car from cold in the morning, where it was augmented by a popping, fizzing crackle from the exhaust. And being of childish disposition, we made good use of the Jeep’s remote start facility – always waiting for an unsuspecting passer-by to be walking in front of the Jeep before double-pressing the button and falling about in fits of giggles as “Elvis” clearing his throat caused the poor unsuspecting to jump a couple of feet into the air.



America 1 Germany 0

But whereas American cars have long been thought of by Europeans as all mouth and no trousers, the SRT motor helps this Jeep feel like the king of SUVs. Foot-in-carpet performance is of the sort that you’ll need serious machinery to outrun. 60mph comes up in just 4.8 seconds, which is fairly startling considering it’s moving two plus tonnes of Jeep.

Better still, the low-flying Chinook idle morphs into a Nascar scream as it closes in on the rev limiter. Playing its part in this performance is the new for 2014 8-speed gearbox. The same ZF unit that sees service in various BMWs and Jags, we love it. Left in auto, you just plant your foot into the carpet and it hurls gears at the engine as fast as it car. But pull on the chunky, authentic metal-feeling steering wheel paddles and you’re in charge. To keep up, the Germans would need to bring a Porsche Cayenne. Turbo.

Premium, not so much

Of course, it doesn’t all feel like quite the premium item the German opposition does. The SRT wheel-arch extensions are bolt-on bits. Plastics are not universally soft touch. Door pockets are not flock, or even rubber- lined.

But crucially, most of the bits you touch – most notably the new SRT wheel and gear shifter paddles, wouldn’t feel out of place in a Porsche. The seats – huge, bewinged SRT branded units – are trimmed in decent quality leather and suede materials too, although we did find them uncomfortable in the small of the back after hours at the wheel.

And while the bits you can see might not be totally top drawer, underneath the Grand Cherokee shares its architecture with Mercedes' latest ML – a hangover from the days when Merc owned Chrysler, so it’s all premium goodness. Doubtless, it’ll even go further than most off-road too, given the Jeep heritage.



A game-changer in touchscreen designs

And when you're not listening to the engine and laughing out loud at the bonkers performance, your cabin experience is likely to be more dominated by the new 8-inch uConnect centre screen and associated digital gauge pack than the plastics.
When this new system won an award at CES we were sceptical about what made it special. But having spent two weeks with it, we have to say that in terms of touchscreen design, it is something of a leap forward.

Real thought has gone into the layout and menu structure. Crucially, the menu system in the 4:3 aspect ratio screen – for nav, radio, media, phone – constantly sits along the bottom. This means that shuttling between functions is a doddle. No need to come out of one function, go back to a global menu and then into another. You simply flick between menus in one touch.



The second impact is that, as these menu buttons remain a constant along the bottom of the screen, the rest of the display above it in facts sits in a 16:9 ratio. This makes the graphical layout look a lot more modern – which combined with a simple, uncluttered layout of buttons and functions makes uConnect very intuitive. It’s also largely fast and responsive. We say largely, because it’s good so long as you give it a minute or two to get its stuff together when first fired up. Clearly, like its name sake, Elvis the Jeep wasn’t one for early mornings. Forced quick entry of sat nav destinations at start up caused the system to crash on a couple of occasions.

Otherwise, the uConnect system proved a boon on our road trip. Can’t find the Fisherman’s Wharf Marriott in San Francisco? uConnect could. Want Wi-Fi on the go? Spotify through Bluetooth? Or Pandora radio via uConnect apps? All worked seamlessly.
And this being an SRT model, you can totally geek out if you want, as deep within the menus you can pull up extra gauges, record G-figures, time acceleration, braking performance and so on. And mirror it on the digital screen in the centre of the gauge cluster. Earning it extra stars as a family car, Jeep hasn't forgotten about the guys in the back with two USB ports on the back of the centre bin.




Verdict - 4/5*

For: Characterful, incredible engine, impressive Uconnect System
Against: Likes a drink, interior sub-premium, long distance seat confort

Such exuberant character and eye-popping performance comes at a price of course. Both at the pumps, where we recorded an average of 16.8 mpg, and to purchase in the first instance. Our car came in at $70,260 (around £45,900).

But let's put that in context. The 16.8mpg doesn’t seem as bad when we convert from US to UK mpg, where it comes out at 20.1mpg. Thirsty yes, but for the performance and size of the car, perhaps better than expected. And the price of $70k - at today’s exchange rates that’s around £45k, although the outgoing SRT model in the UK retailed for just under £60k- still compares favourably to anything similarly sized, German and offering this level of performance.



But this isn’t a review of numbers or rational maths. Anyone who wants a Grand Cherokee in the UK will buy the 3.0 Diesel, unless they own their own oilfield. Most people will buy an X5, Touareg or ML instead anyway. To them we say don’t overlook the Grand Cherokee, it’s really a rather good car.

Yet in trying to summarise our thoughts on this, the most banzai, crazy and American of Jeeps, we keep coming back to that the hard to quantify and overused word, character. Long used as an excuse to make up for a real shortfall in definable qualities in American cars, it’s something the Grand Cherokee SRT has in spades. Yet here it’s not an excuse. It just makes a good car extremely likeable.

Character isn’t quantified by the softness of the plastics. It’s about the special feeling and warm reaction we got while driving this car across three States of America. From bikers on highway one who wanted to know if it "was a 2014" and then gave us the "thumbs up" when we dropped the hammer, to surfer dudes in Big Sur to every Valet in Vegas, who commented on the “sweet Jeep” – America loved this car.

Character’s about the all-enveloping qualities of a truly stunning engine – and the memory of that first freeway on ramp acceleration, which will stay in the mind forever. It’s about knowing you’ll actually miss a car when you leave it for the last time in an airport car park. And it’s about even convincing yourself that calling a car “Elvis” wasn’t actually that silly because it was a bit overweight, full of character, rough around the edges, had a great voice and loved a drink. Try doing that with a Porsche. Funny thing, character.


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