Everything you need to know about the 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L
Compared to the standard, two-row Grand Cherokee — which doesn’t see its next-gen updates until the 2022 model year — the new L expands in multiple ways to accommodate the extra row of seating and all-around more space. It’s 15 inches longer overall than the current two-row Grand Cherokee, with an additional 6.9 inches of wheelbase. Maximum cargo volume is 84.6 cubic feet, up from 68.3 cubic feet in the current two-row Grand Cherokee. Weight, however, hasn’t increased by as much as you’d think. The Grand Cherokee L’s curb weight starts at 4,524 pounds in the Laredo 4x2, and reaches 5,279 pounds in the V8-powered Summit 4x4. That compares to the 2021 Grand Cherokee Laredo’s 4,513 pounds and the V8 Summit’s 5,258 pounds, which is about the difference of one well-fed house cat.
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CHRISTIAN MEUNIER: We're extremely proud to introduce the new Grand Cherokee L. It's a very big deal, and it's a big adventure for design engineering and the brand to reinvent an icon and lever the heritage of the car but make it more modern, more up to date, more exciting product ever. Bringing the new technology, but also refreshing the design, bringing something that doesn't lose the past but, you know, look at the future.
I think the Grand Cherokee L, as it's presented today, delivers on pretty much everything. It's an overachiever in every category. It's an overachiever in performance. It's an overachiever in design. It's really beautiful.
I think it's-- the lines are very, very sophisticated, but it's a very simple design at the same time. Beautiful contradiction in the Grand Cherokee, the contradiction of being a rugged product, but at the same time being as sophisticated and premium as it is. Being at the same time capable off-road and truly capable with water fording, and at the same time the outstanding on-road with outstanding on road manner makes it really an interesting product. So that dual personality makes it the success what it is. And the customers never get disappointed because they always have that overachiever providing them what they need, when they want it.
JIM MORRISON: Every time we do a change in a Jeep, we have to make it better off-road and better on-road with its four-wheel drive capability so that our customers are never let down. They want to know that they have the best four-wheel drive that they can buy. And they get that in a Jeep.
Couple of things you'll notice as soon as you get in the vehicle is-- I talked about authentic materials, you open the door, the Summit model behind me has got more real wood and real leather and real metal than any other SUV in the marketplace, and it really makes you feel like a million bucks. And then you start, you know, driving it and feel the tech. Whether, you know, you're massaging your back with the seat or whether you're, you know, playing with the technology and using the technology to make your day a little bit easier. You have a new Uconnect 5 system that's got a 10-inch screen and the radio, another 10-inch screen in front of you. So there's lots of tech there to help you through your day, and it's just a fantastic environment to be in.
CHRISTIAN MEUNIER: There's something that I've learned when I joined Jeep is the customer is the center of everything we do and we listen to them. The customers were asking for a three-row, so we brought them a three-row, and 75% of the segment is three-row. We're able to be number one in the segment with a two-row, which was quite remarkable.
Now we're going to have the opportunity to really break through in the segment because we're gonna have that three-row and that two-row, which is going to also come this year. And on top of that, we will have a version plug-in hybrid that will come later this year.
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