For starters, a new eight-speed automatic boosts mileage in all powertrains. The visible changes are few compared to the updates in running gear. It also lacks features like GM's center-front airbag or Ford's rear-seat belt airbags, but it does have hill ascent control, which maintains steady throttle while the Grand Cherokee scrabbles up surfaces a Flex or Enclave can only dream about. New color schemes and new trim options, like open-pore wood, push the Grand Cherokee ever higher into luxury-vehicle terrain, though it doesn't have the third-row seating or funky-flexible interior of some bigger crossovers. Interior space is still quite good, and if anything, fit and finish has gotten better. It underscores one of the real strengths of Chrysler since time immemorial-the way it can finish a cockpit, given the right budget and time constraints. The cabin? It's as rich as the ones at Sundance, with marvelous textures and materials on the pricey models, and great layout and design even on the basic Laredo. The regularity of its SUV shape has been de-blanded in back with new LED taillamps, so there's less in common with the X5 and Touareg, and more with the 1992 original. We're at a loss as to what Jeep was thinking with the new grille: it's an inverse of the usual seven bars of chrome, underplayed to a fault, a discreet piece in a niche that doesn't put too high a value on discretion. Without the chopped, blocky look of the last-generation ute, today's Jeep Grand Cherokee is quite a handsome ute.
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