A brand new Camaro SS Convertible will do 0-to-60 MPH in roughly 4.8 seconds. The brand new SRT8 Jeep Grand Cherokee will do it in about the same time. I knew that. The young woman in the Camaro SS next to me looking to sprint down the mostly abandoned section of rural Texas highway clearly didn't.

Ok, so here's the thing. The new Grand Cherokee SRT8 kicks ass. It eats racetrack tarmac in Joey Chestnutt-sized bites, then spits chunks in your face while it's giving you the drill sergeant treatment for not trusting it to carry more speed in the corners than you did. You're as useful as a football bat, you maggot.…

A Jeep that can pull 0.9g on the skidpad? You already know that. But a Jeep with paddle shifters? That's a new one. Meet the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. And yes, it does look like our two-year-old spy rendering.

One hot minute before the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is expected to debut, one of our sharpshooters in the field caught a pair of the sport trucks in a moment of repose. Tired from all the sub-five-second 60mph pulls?

It's not a secret amongst tuners that an abnormally large percentage of the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8's are exported two kind of people: Russians or people I've heard euphemistically referred to as "Latin American businessmen." Seriously. And these "Latin American businessmen" will be pleased as cocaine-laced punch when…

Chrysler downplayed the 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee's Hemi-V8 option, and now they're burying the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, spied trailer-testing in the desert. The center-exit exhaust appears gone for those 11 people who complained about no towing. [GMotors]

The 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee debuted last week, but we've got a first look at the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. The real exciting news? We're told it'll get the 500 HP+ 6.4-liter crate HEMI.