Jeep Cherokee return announcement predicted this yr
We all know Jeep’s docket for the 18 months or so contains debuting the battery-electric Wagoneer S and Recon, placing the plug-in hybrid 4xe powertrain within the Gladiator, and simply perhaps switching up the engine combine within the Grand Cherokee. We have additionally recognized there is a fifth-generation Jeep Cherokee on the best way, the return of a nameplate so traditionally vital to the model that new CEO Antonio Filosa subtly questioned its retirement below his predecessor. Again when Jeep would focus on the brand new mannequin, in 2022, we anticipated it in 2024 or 2025. Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (translated), by way of Mopar Insiders, believes, “The Cherokee’s successor might be introduced by the tip of the yr.”
However the article solely states that when the reporter requested Filosa concerning the Cherokee’s arrival subsequent yr, “Filosa gave the arrival of the inheritor to the Cherokee as possible (as a result of the understanding might be communicated by the tip of this yr).” So take it with the grain of proverbial Italian sale.
The paper’s story is eager on the Cherokee believing there’s an opportunity Stellantis will construct the SUV on the Melfi, Italy, plant for the European market. Stellantis has been assembly with Italian unions and authorities officers these days about manufacturing there, attempting to stop extra revolts over manufacturing capability and naming rights. The automaker’s confirmed 5 autos allotted to the plant, one of many next-gen Compass, the others reported to be two DS fashions (Citroen’s luxurious model), the Lancia Gamma crossover, and an Opel. The Cherokee identify has by no means come up. These 5 Melfi autos are all based mostly on the STLA Medium structure, whereas the subsequent Cherokee retains getting predicted for the STLA massive platform. Italy’s Cassino plant builds fashions on STLA Giant like the present Maserati Grecale and future Alfa Romeo Stelvio.
The Cherokee for our market is predicted to be constructed at Stellantis’ Toluca, Mexico, plant, the power constructing simply the Compass in the mean time. The automaker confirmed this week the Wagoneer S on the STLA Giant platform is headed to Toluca, so too the Recon on the STLA Body structure.
On extra stable floor, the approaching Cherokee will develop some and provide upscale choices like a Wagoneer trim. Evaluating STLA Giant specs to the CUSW platform, STLA Giant comes with a wheelbase seven to eight inches longer than the previous Cherokee, a car size from 4 to 11 inches longer, and a width about 1.5 inch wider. The higher finish of these dimensions may make a brand new Cherokee concerning the measurement of the previous Dodge Journey.
Motor Development suspects a beginning value of round $40,000, a guess that will put the all-new mannequin lower than $1,000 away from the worth of the 2023 Cherokee, which remains to be on the Jeep website and displaying 900 in stock regardless of ending manufacturing that yr.
