2014 Jeep Cherokee Revealed

[phucheneh]

Needs moar headlights and fog lights. Six is not enough and moar is always better.

 

[AMCRambler]

The problem is those headlights. Jeep headlights are supposed to look big, bulky and utilitarian. This looks like the headlights off a sedan.

That and the grill appears to be rolling up onto the hood? The hell? Those vertical bits should be below the styling line that marks the beginning of the hood. It looks like they can't decide if they're a grill or hood louvers.

 

[AMCRambler]

?

I can't think of a single Nissan that looks like that.

 

[disappoint]

 

[MagickMan]

Can someone do a photoshop by blacking out all that chrome?

Would be better if they just blacked out the whole car. :sneaky:

 

[nerp]

This will probably have a blacktop edition, which means no chrome, black wheels, black black etc. Probably will look good.

 

[BeauCharles]

I kind of like it. At least it looks distinctive (for better or worse). Most vehicles today looking like a suppository-on-wheels with only tiny variations in styling. I'd rather drive something obnoxious/ugly than nondescript.

 

[Jodell88]

The design looks Japanese/Korean.

Ugly as the asstec though.

 

[gus6464]

And yet that Juke still looks better...

 

[styrafoam]

And yet that Juke still looks better...

I think that it is in poor taste to rank the special cars as they stumble off the short yellow car carrier.

 

[destrekor]

And yet that Juke still looks better...

I think that it is in poor taste to rank the special cars as they stumble off the short yellow car carrier.

I wouldn't say the Juke looks better (quite a lot worse, imho)... and the Juke is indeed "special."

But, even more special, and ridiculous, and yet insanely awesome, is the Juke-R

I'd definitely own one - if I could afford it, and it wasn't like, what, between 6-10x more expensive than it's big brother (the GT-R). I'd rather buy two GT-Rs, one for fun on the street, one for the track. Perhaps three, at that kind of money - so I'd have a track back-up, ready to go for a race team. 😀
And still have enough left over for plenty of parts and licensing and registrations and etc etc etc. The Juke R's price is a joke. But it's so damn cool. 🙂

 

[Centauri]

It's amazing how close this Cherokee is to looking downright good - it's all in the lights between the headlights and the fog lamps. Photoshop them out and elongate the headlights and you'd have an all around nice looking vehicle.

 

[bigi]

Saw this
and does not look that bad anymore.

 

[LTC8K6]

Saw this
and does not look that bad anymore.

That's not the same vehicle.

The Grand Cherokee looks great.

The Cherokee, not so much.

 

[rh71]

we need one of these every year. It was the Nissan Juke last time right? 😀

 

[Zargon]

That's not the same vehicle.

The Grand Cherokee looks great.

The Cherokee, not so much.

the GC does look pretty good, so does the SRT version......

 

[gorobei]

toned down the grille
copy paste headlight into larger cluster
removed upper light cluster

 

[Mermaidman]

Reminds me of Michonne's jawless zombie pals. 😵

edit: love the color.

 

[LTC8K6]

Puke gray?

Why is the badge on the wrong side?

 

[natto fire]

Old thread, but meh. As a current Jeep owner, I have never cared about how the outside of my Jeep or previous one looked. I only cared about getting through the next mudhole, or having the ground clearance to not hit the next rock.

I owned a 1992 Cherokee and now a 2000 Grand Cherokee and saw first hand how Chrysler was trying too hard to apply the fail from their car divisions to the Jeep brand they bought and bastardized from the very beginning.

It started with taking one of the best engines ever made in the I6 from AMC and slowly adding unreliable Chrysler electronics to it. (Which did result in more power when the various sensors were working). Then they decided those expensive Dana axles and ZF transmission had to go (all being proven bullet-proof parts) so they "cheaped" out there wasting money to develop inferior replacements.

Not sure if they ever dropped NPG transfer cases, as I am so disgusted in the changes of 8 years in the two models I am too scared to see what the future held, but I hear they did finally kill the I6 altogether, and the Liberty was such a mockery of the Jeep name that it thankfully met an early demise.

And shame on Jeep owners that don't take their vehicles off road, you are the worst scum of all by vindicating these Chrysler engineers that should not have a job at all if they think Jeep buyers want a Lincoln.

 

[LTC8K6]

How would the I6 have met government requirements without those electronics?

ZF transmissions are back.

 

[LTC8K6]

As far as calling that thing "Cherokee", that's awful, but the Liberty was called the Cherokee overseas...

 

[ElFenix]

Reminds me of Michonne's jawless zombie pals. 😵

edit: love the color.

looks kinda like a shark

 

[Meghan54]

Puke gray?

My first impression was a shade of Bianchi green.

 

[Imported]

Reminds me of Michonne's jawless zombie pals. 😵

edit: love the color.

I like it. Looks 100x better than the photos in the first post. Amazing what a chrome delete does.