![]() Retail prices for V-8-powered Grand Cherokees start at $37,115.Ĭompetitors include a variety of mid-size SUVs such as the 2012 Kia Sorento, which has a starting MSRP, including destination charge, of $25,750 with two-wheel drive, 276-horsepower V-6 and automatic transmission. One generates 360 horsepower, while the top-of-the-line Hemi V-8 produces 470 horsepower and is in a special Grand Cherokee SRT8 model. This is for a two-wheel drive model with V-6.īut because the Grand Cherokee’s gas tank is so big - holding 24.6 gallons - this SUV can go upwards of 460 combined city/highway miles on a single tank. The best rating the 2012 Grand Cherokee receives from the federal government is 17 miles per gallon in city driving and 23 mpg on the highway. It’s also a recommended buy of Consumer Reports the magazine predicted it would have average reliability.įuel economy isn’t great, though. To the contrary, Jeep’s flagship SUV, the Grand Cherokee, just posted its best June sales in the United States since 2005 and is up 38 percent so far this year from the year-ago period, when sales already rose impressively from 2010.īuyers find the 2012 Grand Cherokee is an American-built, handsome and comfortable five-seater that offers a surprisingly refined and free-of-wind-noise ride on pavement while retaining its off-road chops. SUVs haven’t died off amid higher gasoline prices. Those who thought sport utility vehicles were going the way of the dodo were wrong.
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