Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk Test Drive

18 Mar

You feel yourself comfortable in this car, but this has never happened before in Cherokee. Lateral support in the front seats – now it has it, because earlier you used to hanging between the door and the central tunnel. Joking aside, you can sit in a chair tightly, except that a little more relief is lacking, but that’s nitpicking.

2014 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk
2014 Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk

Behind the wheel there is a laconic tidy with a hefty display, which displays all that you wish. The plastic is soft, buttons are comfortable. Speaking of buttons. There are few of them, and the functionality is duplicated on the touch screen in the middle. It is for the Old Believers most. Quality performance as a whole – is great. Of course, you can collect a bundle of small flaws, but overall for the Jeep is a breakthrough. No kidding: before you could bend the nail about Cherokee’s tidy, now all is softly. Just navigation is miserable, but it’s a family trend, so to speak. Inside the car it is comfortable and accurately. The comfortable Cherokee interior is slightly inferior Japanese and Korean models in build quality, but on the level of finishing materials even surpasses many. In the basic configuration there is cloth trim seats, but here by default are seven airbags, stability control, air conditioning, and keyless access.

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How does it drive?

For two-ton giant Peak torque at 229 Nm is not enough, but at city speeds Cherokee  is in the flow. By the way, it is a strange decision on the aggregate range: the most fancy version of Trailhawk is equipped only with 170-horsepower aspirated.

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The car is nine-automatic for all, without exception, motors.

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Offroad

In the toolkit of this version there is not only the electromagnetic coupling in the drive the rear wheels, and more even rear locking differential, which is rare in the class. Plus bevelled bottom bumpers, of which protrude hardcore eyelets under Shaklee – this is for the best geometry angles of approach and departure 29.9 and 32.1 degrees.

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Like the Land Rover Cherokee got electronic assistant to adapt to different road conditions – Selec-Terrain with Auto modes, Sport, Snow, Sand / Mud. In addition, in its equipment is off-road cruise control. With its help the car can overcome obstacles with speed 1,6-8,5 km / h.

Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk with a 2.4-liter aspirated and “automatic”, cool tools and lots of electronic systems is from 33 500 $. Sorry, but Ford Explorer, even without a cool off-road functionality, but this car is an order of magnitude more impressive.

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So it’s up to you to decide.

Brief specifications of Jeep Cherokee Trailhawk

Dimensions (L x W x H)                               4624 x 1859 x 1670

Curb weight, kg                                           1892

Ground clearance, mm                                221

Cargo Volume, L                                          591

Fuel tank, L                                                  60

Motor Gasoline, 2.4 L,                                 177 hp

Gearbox automatic,                                     9 steps

Drive complete

Acceleration from 0-100 km / h,                   with 10.4

 

Maximum speed km / h                                187

Fuel consumption, l / 100 km                        8,8