Aero Mode: Lowers the automobile .6 inches from NRH. Aero Mode is managed via way of means of automobile pace and adjusts for ideal overall performance and gasoline financial system
Quadra-Lift provides as much as four.five inches of elevate span this is supported via way of means of four-nook air springs that offer a cushioned, top rate trip. Quadra-Lift operates automatically, or can be managed manually thru console controls.In addition to the Quadra-Lift air suspension, the all-new Selec-Terrain™ traction manage gadget we could clients pick the off-avenue putting for the greatest enjoy on all terrains.
This characteristic electronically coordinates as much as 12 extraordinary powertrain, braking and suspension structures, inclusive of throttle manage, transmission shift, switch case, Traction Control and Electronic Stability Control (ESC).The Selec-Terrain's manage dial lets in the driving force to pick from 5 riding situations so one can attain the fine riding enjoy on all terrains:
Sand/Mud: Traction manage and Quadra-Lift perform with touchy reaction to wheel spin, and torque is tuned for ideal overall performance
Sport: Provides stronger on-avenue "fun-to-force" functionality
Auto: Automatically adapts to any on- or off-avenue situation
Snow: Vehicle traction and Quadra-Lift modify for remaining overall performance over snow-included roads
Rock: Quadra-Lift suspension increases to most peak (eleven.1 inches) and the switch case, differentials, and throttle coordinate to offer low-pace manage
Selec-Terrain, coupled with the all-new Quadra-Lift air suspension, gives drivers an adjustable suspension span that grants mythical Trail Rated® overall performance.
With the the front air dam removed, and the to be had Quadra-Lift air suspension, the all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee capabilities a 35.nine-diploma technique attitude, (in comparison to 32.three on modern version), a 29.2-diploma departure attitude (in comparison to 27.five on modern version) and 25.1-diploma breakover attitude (in comparison to 20.four on modern version).
The all-new unbiased the front and rear suspension capabilities remoted the front and rear suspension cradles. Variable-fee rear springs supply stepped forward on-avenue dealing with and luxury that enhances the automobile's off-avenue functionality. The new rear suspension lets in the spare tire to be saved withinside the automobile rather than underneath.
Go-Anywhere 4x4 Systems
The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee gives 3 4x4 structures (Quadra-Trac I®, Quadra-Trac II® and Quadra-Drive® II).
Quadra Trac I grants full-time four-wheel force with none switches or levers to pull. The gadget presents clean operation over quite a few avenue situations. This mild-weight unmarried-pace case is each demonstrated and exceedingly green for stronger gasoline financial system.
Quadra Trac II's -pace switch case makes use of enter from quite a few sensors so one can decide tire slip on the earliest viable second and take corrective action. The gadget makes use of Throttle Anticipate to feel brief motion withinside the throttle from a forestall and maximizes traction earlier than slippage occurs. When tire slippage is detected, as a great deal as one hundred percentage of to be had torque is immediately routed to the axle with the maximum traction.
Quadra Drive II, with a rear Electronic Limited-Slip Differential (ELSD), grants industry-main tractive functionality. The gadget right away detects tire slip and easily distributes engine torque to tires with traction. In a few cases, the automobile will assume low traction and modify so one can proactively restrict or get rid of slip.
Selec-Terrain is preferred with Quadra Trac II and Quadra Drive II.
Jeep Trail Rated®
All 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokees ready with both the off-avenue or the Quadra-Lift organization are Trail Rated®. The Jeep Trail Rated badge at the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee shows that the automobile has been designed to carry out in quite a few tough off-avenue situations recognized via way of means of 5 key consumer-orientated overall performance categories: traction, floor clearance, maneuverability, articulation and water fording.
Jeep Trail Rated is a completely unique technique utilized by Jeep Engineering to degree and expect off-avenue overall performance for all Jeep motors. Through a mixture of herbal and managed subject tests, Jeep Trail Rated presents a steady dimension of off-avenue overall performance for all Jeep motors. Only Jeep motors are Trail Rated.
Powertrains
The all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee is to be had with main engine alternatives for North American markets.
The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee's preferred engine is an all-new bendy gasoline three.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine. The three.6-liter V-6 engine is an all-new layout proposing double overhead camshafts (DOHC) and a high-strain die-forged aluminum cylinder block in a 60-diploma configuration. It capabilities Variable-Valve Timing (VVT) and grants 280 horsepower (209 kW) and 260 lb.-ft. of torque (353 N•m) @ four,800 rpm. This all-new Pentastar V-6 engine improves gasoline financial system as much as eleven percentage in comparison to the preceding Jeep Grand Cherokee ready with a V-6. It is coupled with the demonstrated W5A580, a 5-pace automated transmission that grants clean shifts and greatest gasoline financial system. The 5-pace W5A580 transmission consists of adaptive digital manage or Electronic Range Select (ERS) driving force-interactive guide manage and an electronically modulated torque converter clutch.
The all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee's large gasoline tank, with a 24.6 gallon capacity, blended with the Pentastar V-6 engine's stepped forward gasoline financial system, grants a number about 500 miles on one tank of fueloline.
The to be had mythical five.7-liter HEMI® V-eight engine grants 360 horsepower (268 kW) and 390 lb.-ft. of torque (520 N•m) @ four,250 rpm. The HEMI additionally capabilities VVT, which grants overall performance and towing functionality, in addition to gasoline performance with the gasoline-saving Multi-displacement System (MDS). The five.7-liter HEMI V-eight engine is mated to the 545RFE multi-pace automated transmission.
The all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee gives unsurpassed trailer tow functionality of as much as 7,four hundred lbs. on 4x2 fashions whilst ready with the HEMI V-eight engine.
For global markets, the all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee may be to be had in left- and right-hand force with both diesel or petrol powertrains.
World-elegance Interior Refinement
The all-new indoors is extended to that of its European opposition and capabilities wealthy substances and fashionable appointments, in addition to greater room for each passengers and shipment.
"Following withinside the footsteps of our all-new 2009 Dodge Ram, our all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee is every other proud graduate of our Advanced Interior Design Studio," stated Ralph Gilles, Vice President - Design. "We finished a international-elegance indoors via way of means of the use of pleasant substances and keeping a laser-interest to details."
An to be had all-new CommandView® twin-pane solar roof presents two times as a great deal glass floor than a preferred solar roof and extends from the windshield to the rear of the automobile. The the front panel may be opened rearward, offering extra mild and clean air to first-row passengers. The rear panel, that is fixed, lets in mild and open viewing for second-row passengers and springs preferred with a energy solar shade.
Right-sized Packaging
The automobile's 114.eight-inch wheelbase is five.three inches longer than the version it replaces and contributes to an common automobile period this is 1.eight inches longer than the previous version. The longer wheelbase creates greater indoors room and offers passengers a further four inches of rear-seat knee and leg room. The automobile is also three inches wider for stepped forward dealing with and packaging.
Larger the front door openings (1.nine inches wider; 2 inches higher) and rear doorways open seventy eight levels in comparison to modern fashions (sixty seven levels) for higher get admission to to the indoors.
Inside, top rate seating consists of room for 5 passengers. An to be had fold-flat the front-passenger seat presents stepped forward shipment garage room (Laredo fashions).
For delivered passenger comfort, rear seats recline 12 levels. There is also a 12-diploma ahead attitude to permit 24 levels of variation.
Cargo quantity at the back of the second-row presents a further 6.eight cubic ft of room (36.three cubic ft total) in comparison to the preceding version. The well-appointed rear shipment region consists of a garage unit with a chargeable flashlight and new and stepped forward grocery hooks on each sides. The spare tire compartment consists of detachable twin garage boxes for steady garage of muddy equipment or different items.
An all-new energy rear liftgate is to be had for easy far flung up/down convenience.
Classic Exterior Design
Every floor of the all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee is new and handled for aerodynamics. This improves gasoline performance and places greater fluidity into the layout even as turning in a 7- percentage development in drag in comparison with the modern version. The all-new 2011 Grand Cherokee Cd is about 0.37 in comparison with the 2009 Cd of 0.404.
"Our all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee is a great deal greater refined, centered and sportier than the version it replaces," stated Gilles. "It has conventional Jeep Grand Cherokee styling with sculpted athletic outdoors refinements for 2011."
The the front consists of Jeep's conventional seven-slot grille, spherical headlamps and trapezoidal wheel arches. The detachable decrease the front fascia grants stepped forward gasoline financial system, on-avenue overall performance and off-avenue functionality. The decrease the front fascia capabilities a massive chromed appliqué (Limited and Overland fashions) that showcases to be had tow hooks.
From the facet, Jeep Grand Cherokee capabilities an athletic, muscular profile. Black appliqués on B-pillars supply the day-mild opening (DLO) an aerodynamic, present day look and a graceful profile. Available chromed mirrors and door handles upload to the profile and supplement the full-chromed DLO surround on all fashions.
Seventeen-inch wheels are preferred and supply off-avenue functionality, with optionally available 18-inch and all-new to Jeep, 20-inch wheels for 2011.
Taillamps wrap from the rear sector panel to the lower back of the automobile and create a strong shape which achieves greater of an upscale look. The remedy enhances the the front-cease layout and resonates with the relaxation of the outdoors.
Jeep Grand Cherokee fashions ready with a HEMI V-eight engine have three.five-inch twin chromed exhaust tips, and people with the Pentastar V-6 engine have a three-inch unmarried exhaust.
Premium Performance
Continuing to construct at the Jeep brand's mythical off-avenue functionality, the all-new 2011 Grand Cherokee provides top rate on-avenue overall performance to finish the package.
The all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee's top rate SUV on-avenue manners and mythical Jeep ruggedness is finished with greater than five,four hundred welds withinside the frame alone. Torsional stiffness is 146 percentage greater than the modern Grand Cherokee and stiffer than the BMW X5 and Toyota Highlander for stepped forward sturdiness and decreased noise, vibration and harshness (NVH).
With greater than three,seven hundred mm of arc welding and one hundred m of structural adhesive to reinforce welding, this marks a 53-percentage growth in spot welds, a 42-percentage growth in arc welds and a 38-percentage growth in structural adhesive.
More than forty five Safety and Security Features
The all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee consists of greater than forty five protection and safety capabilities.
Standard protection capabilities encompass Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Electronic Roll Mitigation (ERM), four-wheel Anti-lock Brake System (ABS) with rough-avenue detection, four-wheel Brake Traction Control System (BTCS), Passive Entry/Keyless Go, Remote keyless entry, explicit up/down home windows for driving force and the front-seat passenger, seat-belt pretensioners, Trailer-Sway Control and Remote-Start that is preferred on Overland and to be had on Limited.
Other preferred protection capabilities encompass full-period facet-curtain air baggage which amplify safety to the front and rear outboard passengers, seat-installed facet thorax air baggage that decorate safety for the driving force and the front passenger and energetic head restraints which install withinside the occasion of a rear collision.
The frame shape is all new and designed to attain anticipated protection overall performance in international markets (new roof-weigh down requirements, facet-effect requirements and Euro pedestrian effect).
Connectivity and Infotainment Features
The all-new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee will characteristic uconnect dad or mum as a preferred characteristic on all fashions (offerings furnished via way of means of Hughes Telematics).
uconnect dad or mum presents clients with the pinnacle 5 asked safety capabilities. uconnect dad or mum clients can get admission to the following:
Automatic Crash Notification - In the occasion of an accident, a name is positioned and a request for help is dispatched to the automobile's vicinity
Emergency Call - With a push of the emergency button, clients are positioned in touch with a educated emergency reaction expert all through an emergency situation
Roadside Assistance Call - Connects clients to a uconnect patron care expert who can join them to Chrysler's avenue-facet help for towing or leap starts
Remote Door Unlock - Remotely unlocks doorways with a easy telecellsmartphone name.
Stolen Vehicle Location Assistance - Works with nearby government thru on-call for monitoring to offer the modern vicinity of the automobile if it's miles stolen
The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee additionally capabilities SIRIUS Travel Link. Giving drivers up-to-the minute data about, fueloline prices, climate situations, sports activities rankings and film listings. In addition, the all-new 2011 Grand Cherokee capabilities SIRIUS Traffic, which video display units site visitors in seventy eight markets throughout the U.S. and constantly shows the ones situations thru the automobile's nav gadget.
