Originally Posted By: LoneRanger
An endeavor in confliction. Designed from the ground up to be superior in it's class for off-roading and utility with decent road manners so sure why not work to produce a package that adapts the vehicle to a polar opposite mission-- on a race track. Engineering time and effort would be better spent refining some of their other vehicles that are struggling to compete in their class, instead of developing a mongrel package for one of their class leaders.
The current generation Grand Cherokee, which shares a platform with the big Benz SUV's, was definitely not designed from the ground up for superior off-roading. It, and its Dodge platform mate the Durango, are more like an interesting in-between, not huge like an Expedition or Yukon, but not a smaller FWD-based platform like the Explorer or Pilot.
An endeavor in confliction. Designed from the ground up to be superior in it's class for off-roading and utility with decent road manners so sure why not work to produce a package that adapts the vehicle to a polar opposite mission-- on a race track. Engineering time and effort would be better spent refining some of their other vehicles that are struggling to compete in their class, instead of developing a mongrel package for one of their class leaders.
The current generation Grand Cherokee, which shares a platform with the big Benz SUV's, was definitely not designed from the ground up for superior off-roading. It, and its Dodge platform mate the Durango, are more like an interesting in-between, not huge like an Expedition or Yukon, but not a smaller FWD-based platform like the Explorer or Pilot.