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    2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    Honestly, I'm disappointed.


    I was seriously hoping for at least 600 hp.


    Ah well, nothing a K&N air filter and an exhaust tip can't fix.


    If I throw on a big enough wing, I might be pushing 625 horses, 650 horses with the right stickers.

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    It's like a Flex with direction and attitude. Sort of compelling, in that high-waisted, gun slit windows kind of way that's been successful for the 300. I doubt they'll sell enormous numbers of these, even without the carpocalypso going on, but it may drive a lot of traffic to the showrooms and help to move some regular Cherokees, and that's not a bad thing.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    Like a parting shot off the deck of the Hindenburg or the Titanic, it looks really cool, but you can't help stopping and imagining how fucked it's probably going to be.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    I really like the look of the front end. It's nice to see that the design guys at Jeep are still coming to work, and doing their job the right way. The engine can go away though. I would rather see a reworking of the old straight six, with now internals, and a twin turbo set-up. And of course a nice Cummins Diesel option as well. But that's just me. Or more accurately, that's just a small fraction of the motoring public. So who knows what last gasp this fish has in it while it flops around out of water. Hopefully Fiat will bring us more reasonable vehicles, once they get distribution through Chryslererus dealerships. I am certainly not holding my breath.
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    Image of Potatosw✭tter Potatosw✭tter
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    So now all Chrysler products are auditioning for the remake of Death Proof? Really if I were a chick (it's OK if I say it that way) those blacked out neanderthal headlights would look like the equivalent of… well a neanderthal brow with blackened bloodshot eyes. No matter how new and shiny. A car shouldn't look like it wants to hurt you.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    04/13/09

    @Potatoswatter: "..A car should always look like it wants to hurt you...?


    There. Fixed that for you.

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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    If I send you a sketch of a car that I wished existed, would you do a post on it?
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    Image of The Auto Insider The Auto Insider
    04/14/09

    @Mad_Science: For you? Yes.
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    Image of MySe7enCanBeatYour911 MySe7enCanBeatYour911
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    I love the SRT8s but I can only imagine Chrysler trying to justify this to their new "Congressional" board of directors. (When I imagine it with Barney Frank's "accent" it's even more fun).
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    04/13/09

    @MySevenCanBeatYour911: Sfftop it. Barney Ffffrank doethn't talk sfunny.
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    Image of TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah TexanIdiot25- needs moar horse powah
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    "Appears to be"


    You have got to be flippin' blind to miss the SRT8 logo.

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    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    Shit, the front end looks just like something else, but I can't place it...
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/13/09

    @Gutpunch McRodbender, a strolling player's understudy:


    My first thought was my mother, but then she never had such cool wheels. She only ever drove minivans.

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    04/13/09

    @pauljones: Well... okay. I was thinking more along the lines of this:


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    Image of Dhillaz 2.0 Dhillaz 2.0
    04/13/09

    @Gutpunch McRodbender, a strolling player's understudy: I was thinking of the ever blandening vehicle.



    Headlights and grilles are just getting smaller, like Woll Smoth's face.


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    04/14/09

    @Dhillaz: Holy hell! That is the most freaky thing I've seen all week.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    Uh, sure, why not.


    I love the power but not so much the packaging. This motor should be the factory equipment for the challenger.

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    Image of .357 .357
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    I like the looks. I like the SRT V8. But, I agree with pauljones on this one. There is just no way that this is going to happen.
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    Image of The Auto Insider The Auto Insider
    04/14/09

    @Lord Pferdestärke the 357th: It could happen, it's not that difficult of a vehicle to produce considering all the engineering work was likely done with the original vehicle team.
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    Image of LEEN4545 LEEN4545
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    I think we are missing a word "...been humming along quietly in the SRT garage engineer and develop the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 as a 2012 model."


    possibly "to"...?

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/13/09

    @LEEN4545: It was posted at midnight after a major Holiday.


    If you recognized that little of a mistake and thought it worth bringing up, then I would assert that you haven't had enough to drink today. Go back and try again.

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    04/13/09

    @pauljones: I'm in China, so just trying to practice my bad english. Thanks pointing it out...
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    04/13/09

    @The Auto Insider: ^^ @ LEEN4545
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/13/09

    @The Auto Insider: In China?


    Oh boy, I bet there's an interesting story behind this one.

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    Image of Triborough Triborough
    04/13/09

    @The Auto Insider: Just don't say, "Free Tibet!"
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    Image of A strolling player got drunk and A strolling player got drunk and
    04/13/09

    @Triborough: Well, now it's on his computer screen. Way to go, you just killed The Auto Insider.
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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    04/13/09

    @pauljones: Well said.
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    Image of The Auto Insider The Auto Insider
    04/14/09

    @pauljones: Yep. I've been banished from the land of the free.
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    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    Needs 9 fewer or 34 more cubic inches.
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/13/09

    In reply to 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8: Exclusive First Look!
    That hood scoop is anything but subtle, and at the risk of shitting on the party parade, I just can't see it happening in this climate. Not that I don't want it to, nothing could be farther from the truth; after all, if the X6M is allowed to exist, then this thing certainly should be.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/13/09

    @pauljones: Hell, why not? They already have those. If they're replacing all the 6.1L units with the 6.4L, that'd be all the change there'd be.


    Other than the extra ugliness sprinkled on top of it.

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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/13/09

    @Pessimippopotamus is at 0% productivity: It would be a new platform, though.


    And yes, I agree about the looks. I don't think the 2011 Grand Cherokee looks bad by any measure, but dammit, as a former owner of a 74 Cherokee, why couldn't they have done at least a little to incorporate a little heritage in the design?


    Nothing overtly retro, just a few subtle cues.

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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    04/13/09

    @pauljones: It's a new platform for 2011 anyway. This doesn't change that much.
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    04/13/09

    @pauljones: Also, have you seen the headlights? No? Then we'll have to show you them tomorrow.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/13/09

    @Ray Wert: How new is "new"?
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    Image of Ray Wert Ray Wert
    04/13/09

    @Pessimippopotamus is at 0% productivity: Straight-from-the-new-ML new.
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    Image of The Auto Insider The Auto Insider
    04/13/09

    @pauljones: The hood scoop could have looked like the new MS3 or WRX instead...
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    04/13/09

    @Ray Wert: I don't know what to make of that. Remnants of the old Daimler-Chrysler Co? Prenup? Alimony? Child support? Which one does the new Grand Cherokee describe best?
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    Image of pauljones pauljones
    04/13/09

    @Ray Wert:


    Headlights? I spent some time checking out the design on netcarshow.com, but I couldn't see anything about the indicative of past styling cues. Personally, one of the things I miss most about the styling of my old Jeep was long, straight lines, like semi-utilitarian vehicle should have and a simple, clean instrument panel.



    [media.photobucket.com]


    Or was this one of those headlight jokes to go hand-in-hand with the peep jokes?

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    04/13/09

    @pauljones: Picture fail.


    img src="http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j135/TooRisky/CherokeeInterior.jpg"

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