Comes with the new 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT to date the most powerful and fastest production Jeep on the market. Accordingly, demanding he does: the front spoiler with a mighty impressed air ducts for the brakes, in the hood, there are nostrils to vent. 20-inch wheels, wheel arches and a lowering by 30 millimeters make the car look like massive powerful look.
2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT |
Competition for the Cayenne and M-Class
To understand a bold roof spoiler and a diffuser to give back: "Do not mess with me!" Addressed is the threat of power-SUVs such as the 525-hp and Mercedes ML 63 AMG or the Porsche Cayenne Turbo with 500 hp. And the two must have been a bit scared. Under the hood of the SRT puts a 6.4-liter V8, the powerful 468 hp and 624 Newton meters enormous approach creates. He does this with an exciting sound that pedestrians perceive as hissing rich, and we get deep inside a V-8 tubes to the ears. Inside the SRT is more like a flat cars, as a jeep. The sports seats offer plenty of grip, the steering wheel is flattened at the bottom, in addition, there is plenty of aluminum and leather.
Brute force out of the bottom
The high-revving naturally aspirated engine pulls the Jeep with the brute force of high-speed basement stairs. A stopwatch in the onboard computer automatically measures the sprint to 100 km / h - in the ideal case, there appears 5.0 seconds. The super-jeep reached a peak of almost 260 km / h takes, but on average, according to factory specification and 14.1 liters per 100 kilometers. With our streamlined test were 18.5 liters in the display.
Five-speed automatic transmission and Brembo brakes
An automatic transfers power to the permanent all-wheel drive, its five stages can also be changed using paddles on the steering wheel. The Brembo brake grabs too strong, 100 km from the car comes to a halt after 35 meters. On the serpentine route of the 2.4-ton surprised with remarkable driving dynamics. We can measure exactly the car with high speed and with almost no body roll through the corners, the steering is tuned directly.
Select - track system setup
The reason for the good cornering, adaptive Bilstein shocks and traction control, "Select-track": A rotary knob on the center console can we tuned suspension, throttle response and transmission shift points in five modes for race tracks, sporting progress on the road, slippery surfaces or towing a trailer or can be set to do automatically.
Conclusion:
The Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT is a driving machine of a special kind It's not just from like Harry, he can also be remarkably fast and without wavering steer through corners.