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Jeep Grand Cherokee 2001

With plaudits and awards rolling in, and income soaring, the brand new era value-for-cash Jeep Grand Cherokee has taken up the Jeep® banner with flair, putting new requirements of luxurious 4x4 motoring.Now that expenses are even decrease, Jeep Grand Cherokee represents extra special value.The pinnacle-of-the-variety V8 has been decreased to £30,995 from £34,995, the rugged three.1TD now costs £27,995, a discount of £three,000, and the flexible four.zero petrol is decreased via way of means of £2,000 to £27,995.Certainly the all-new Jeep® Grand Cherokee has a few large boots to fill. Its predecessor set new income facts each 12 months following its release into Europe in 1993.To make sure Jeep Grand Cherokee remains beforehand of the pack, the ultra-modern incarnation has been completely reworked, with a brand new four.7-litre petrol V8 engine, new three.1-litre Turbo Diesel, re-engineered four.zero-litre instantly six petrol engine, and revolutionary world-elegance 4x4 era.Jeep Grand Cherokee, constructed specially for the United Kingdom marketplace at Graz in Austria, efficaciously marries the maximum cosseting luxurious automobile comfort, trip and overall performance, to rugged go-everywhere capacity in even the maximum antagonistic terrain, totally consistent with the sturdy Jeep legend.The flagship of the Chrysler brand, Grand Cherokee is a traditional American layout, totally consistent with the Chrysler marque strengths of innovation, and individuality, a automobile that exudes ardour and styling flair, laying down a brand new benchmark to which 4x4 pretenders can simplest aspire.New Jeep Grand Cherokee is the primary Jeep car evolved and engineered the use of present day CATIA (Computer Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application) pc layout era. For all of the technological innovation that lies beneathneath the pores and skin though, there may be no mistaking the brand new-form Jeep Grand Cherokee's motif Jeep grille, much less angular and extra raked, unmistakably Jeep but consistent with the auto's extra fluid, delicate and dynamic seems.The right away known grille is flanked via way of means of jewel-like headlamps that suit beautiful seems to improved performance. A brighter, wider beam sample is matched to headlamp levelling, in order that even if the auto is closely loaded or towing, the headlamps may be 'tuned' for maximum protection. The windscreen is steeply angled, for extra aerodynamic performance. To the rear, formidable tri-shade taillights lend Jeep Grand Cherokee its one of a kind on-street personality, to face out from the crowd.The indoors has extra room for occupants and baggage.
By making Jeep Grand Cherokee eleven cm longer (four.four inches), 6.four cm higher (2.five inches), and four cm wider (1.6 inches), occupants can now experience an additional 2.five cm (one inch) extra the front headroom, 1.2 cm (1/2 of an inch) extra rear head room, 7.eight cm (three.1 inches) extra rear hip room and 36 litres (1.three cubic feet) extra baggage space.
There are new substances and a formidable new look. The subject matter is stylish luxurious. Soft-contact surfaces deliver a solid, reassuring feel. For the driving force, manage is overall. All number one controls are handy on stalks across the guidance wheel, and key controls for the superior audio gadget are included into the leather-based blanketed guidance wheel.There is extra headroom the front and rear, extra hip room withinside the lower back, a few 36 litres (1.2 cubic feet) extra shipment volume, and with the total length spare tyre tucked away well beneathneath the rear shipment floor, easy-fold break up rear seats and fold-down armrests open up a cavernous baggage compartment in a count number of moments.The degree of system is lavish proper throughout the variety. Standard specification consists of the twin quarter weather manage gadget that independently controls air temperature for each facets of the cabin. There are heated the front seats with 10-manner energy adjustment and reminiscence settings, a a hundred and eighty watt six speaker sound gadget and 'his' and 'hers' key fobs with complete reminiscence settings. There is likewise a rear display screen radio aerial, flip-up hinged rear window and energy, and electrically managed, folding wing mirrors with 'his' and 'hers' reminiscence settings. Also wellknown is cruise manage, the programmable overhead console facts centre, leather-based trim, tinted glass and illuminated conceitedness mirrors, and 17 inch alloy wheels.For protection twin the front airbags are wellknown, as are aspect effect safety guards, and anti-lock brakes. Should you need to excursion your Jeep Grand Cherokee at pace abroad, particular tyres designed specially with excessive pace motoring in thoughts permit a pinnacle cruising pace of a hundred twenty five mph, which ensures advanced coping with and ultra-brief braking distances.Such interest to detail, a Chrysler layout exchange mark, may be in addition visible with air foil windscreen wipers that make sure clean imaginative and prescient for the duration of excessive pace highway riding, and the tuning of the guidance tools and suspension specially for confidence-inspiring coping with at highway speeds.

Jeep Grand Cherokee is now powered via way of means of all-new engines and a very well reworked, extra effective, model of the much-cherished four.zero-litre instantly six petrol powerplant. The muscular all-new four.7-litre V8 PowerTech engine, new three.1-litre 5 cylinder Turbo diesel and the four.zero-litre instantly six petrol engines had been designed specially to provide higher overall performance, progressed gas consumption, higher exceptional and reliability, and to be quieter and smoother for a extra state-of-the-art and enjoyable trip.David Van Raaphorst, of Jeep Product Planning, says: "We designed those new engines on the way to maximise gas performance and to minimise emissions, even as putting new requirements for overall performance and refinement."For the V8 it intended extra usable energy, much less noise, decreased vibration and much less harshness, and extra durability. We have made this V8 one of the maximum quiet, delicate and first-class sounding petrol powerplants Chrysler has ever evolved. This has been finished via way of means of growing engine and typical powertrain stiffness, enhancing the stability of rotating additives and upgrading the powertrain mounting systems."Engine efficiencies have been key desires withinside the improvement process. With the sizeable use of opportunity substances, plus our capacity to optimise the air go with the drift via way of means of the use of pc simulations, we've got engines that produce extra energy, use much less gas, and burn cleaner."For the Turbo Diesel it intended that we brought a cylinder and improved the displacement to fulfill the call for for brought overall performance." The 4.7-litre V8, gives extra usable energy, extra torque for progressed pulling energy and extra durability. It takes Jeep Grand Cherokee to a pinnacle pace of 124 mph and from zero-60 mph in 8 seconds. The V8 PowerTech engine provides 220 bhp at 4600 rpm and 291 lb feet of torque at 3300 rpm. Vibration is at a minimal way to using stiffer systems and transferring parts, and via way of means of decreasing noise from withinside the engine. But there may be nonetheless that particular V8 exhaust burble.Power degrees are up way to the fast-burn combustion era. This has the brought bonus of enhancing gas financial system via way of means of getting extra paintings from any given quantity of gas, aided via way of means of a pc-designed water pump that reduces wasted energy. As a end result, no matter its four.7 litres, the V8 is able to 20.eight mpg. 3.1-LITRE TURBO DIESEL With a 3rd of Jeep Grand Cherokee income in Europe providing diesel powerplants, the all-new three.1-litre Turbo Diesel engine, is a huge alternative for drivers eager to apply the huge pulling energy of a diesel unit for the hardest off-street jobs including towing trailers, caravans and horseboxes. The three.1 TD, constructed at VM Motors in Cento, Italy, is the primary ever diesel-engined Jeep to be equipped with an automated transmission as wellknown, and may tow hundreds of as much as 3500 kg.The beefy 5 cylinder 3125 cc Turbo Diesel is easily responsive, marrying energy, financial system and civilised on-street use, to storming off-street functionality way to its huge 283 lb feet of torque, and a energy score of 138 bhp at 3600 rpm.None of which does some thing to decrease the diesel's forecourt-shy financial system. Driving extra than seven hundred miles on a tank of gas is a feat for any automobile. But the Turbo Diesel Jeep Grand Cherokee will do simply that. This isn't anyt any idle advertising and marketing boast, as a three.1-litre Turbo Diesel travelled all of the manner from Dover to the North East of Scotland on simply one tank of gas, averaging a miserly forty three mpg, and protecting 735 miles (1,176 kilometres) on seventy eight litres. That works out at a median 42.86 mpg or 6.sixty three l/a hundred km. Official financial system figures display the Turbo Diesel returns 29.1 mpg greater city, 24.1 mpg blended, and 19.five mpg city cycle.To minimise noise and vibration, the diesel engine, transmission and switch case consist of a fixed of interconnecting metal struts just like the ones used withinside the four.zero-litre petrol engine. These struts growth the herbal vibration frequency of the assembly, which eliminates a supply of stressful vibration. The vibration is in addition decreased way to a brand new direct-mount air con compressor, in addition to upgrades to the compact alternator and energy guidance brackets. A unmarried serpentine belt with computerized tensioner drives all of the engine-established accessories, which reduces height bearing hundreds for quieter operation.Steve Gray, General Manager Marketing for Chrysler and Jeep says: "Now it's far feasible to have all the advantages of the diesel engine with the sophistication and simplicity of operation of computerized transmission." The four.zero-litre instantly six petrol engine has been significantly revised, and as a end result is 10 according to cent extra effective, turning in 188 bhp at 5000 rpm, 218 lb feet of torque at 3050 rpm, with a pinnacle pace of 117 mph and a zero-60 mph time of 10 seconds, returning 23.five mpg at the greater city cycle.Upgrades to the four.zero-litre powerplant make it quieter, however on the identical time extra effective and environmentally cleaner. A new splitter-vane water pump is 50 according to cent extra efficient, and a brand new cylinder head with decreased-place exhaust ports and new exhaust manifolds expel spent combustion merchandise extra efficiently, which additionally will increase energy. A decrease idle pace enables enhance gas financial system.So that the four.zero-litre Jeep Grand Cherokee is quieter and extra enjoyable to power, Chrysler Jeep engineers have labored difficult to lessen noise and vibration from the engine, transmission and switch with a fixed of metal struts used to interconnect all three. The end result is markedly much less noise, vibration and harshness perceived via way of means of the auto's occupants.The absolutely computerized, electronically managed multi-pace 45RFE is all-new for the Jeep Grand Cherokee four.7-litre V8. Another leap forward comes withinside the form of the automated transmission with the three.1-litre Turbo Diesel, making it the Jeep with a diesel engine matched to computerized transmission. The 45RFE computerized transmission and V8 engine had been designed and engineered in concord and exactly calibrated to convey the first-class out of 1 every other. The end result is a fantastically state-of-the-art engine/transmission powertrain that provides big quantities of energy in a delicate, easy-to-use go with the drift, a partnership that still outcomes in progressed gas performance and substantially decreased exhaust emissions.David Van Raaphorst of Chrysler Jeep Product Planning says: "Incorporating optimised tools ratio steps and present day features, the 45RFE represents a brand new degree for shift refinement, noise, vibration and harshness traits and durability."The 45RFE Automatic transmission additionally virtually establishes Jeep Grand Cherokee as a category chief as it's far the simplest 4x4 in its elegance with the benefit of a opposite tools ratio this is identical to the primary tools ratio. For 4x4 drivers, specially the motorist who tows or is used to wearing heavy hundreds, that is a mainly beneficial feature.The 45RFE additionally has the widest variety of tools ratios in any transmission in its elegance. The revolutionary layout method that, collectively with the ideal step selections, tools shifts with the particularly effective V8 are silken smooth, even as additionally making sure that most energy and keenest gas financial system are maintained irrespective of what the situations.The complete Jeep Grand Cherokee variety comes with computerized transmission. The three.1-litre Turbo Diesel is partnered with a very well re-engineered model of the 44RE electronically managed four-pace transmission, even as the four.zero-litre instantly six petrol unit is mated to the confirmed, completely updated, electronically managed four-pace 42RE computerized transmission. 4x4 THE QUADRA-DRIVE WAY Chrysler's all-new Quadra-Drive four-wheel power gadget is an enterprise unique for Jeep Grand Cherokee.Quadra-Drive combines, for the primary time, the confirmed Quadra-Trac ll switch case with the Vari-Lok revolutionary the front and rear axle differentials. The blended Quadra-Drive gadget is a brand new idea in 4x4, turning in elegance-main degrees of responsiveness and traction on and stale street, regardless of the situations, the climate or the terrain, it all finished right away and automatically, with out the driving force having to without end push buttons or mess around with levers.Under ordinary motoring situations, all Jeep Grand Cherokees have maximum in their engine energy introduced simply to the rear wheels. If the gadget detects any lack of grip, energy is likewise right away despatched to the the front axle, giving lower back to the driving force overall manage and improved traction.The immediate a wheel loses traction, the velocity variant among the the front and rear axle reasons a gerotor pump to use hydraulic stress to a multi-disc clutch-plate. This in flip sends energy to the the front axle. Within fractions of a second, traction and manage is seamlessly transferred permitting Grand Cherokee to retain on its manner with out fuss or worry. The Jeep Grand Cherokee motive force might not even be aware the gerotor pump doing its job, besides for the auto's serene and untroubled progress. In every other enterprise leap forward, the reaction of the gerotor pump may be tuned to suit riding situations exactly in order that the superior gadget may be used withinside the the front axle in addition to the rear.The Vari-Lok era ensures energy is introduced to the wheel with the maximum grip. This continues Jeep Grand Cherokee at the pass in any respect times. The splendor of Vari-Lok is that it is able to supply some distance extra torque to the wheel this is getting the maximum grip, than can traditional limited-slip systems. This is due to the fact energy switch in a Vari-Lok differential is proportional to wheel pace distinction instead of torque distinction as is the case with maximum mechanical limited-slip systems.The end result is a gadget this is specially powerful on surfaces wherein contrary wheels locate themselves on surfaces with very distinctive friction and traction traits. Where one wheel is on tarmac and the opposite on moist grass, or one wheel on ice and the opposite on track, Vari-Lok comes into its own.The end result is progressed coping with and balance in moist climate, on slippery roads, in ice, or in rain. As properly as getting the most feasible traction while accelerating, Quadra-Trac ll consists of a low variety for fantastically powerful off-street operation.