Went to visit our oldest and his family last week. Flew into Balmore via Atlanta and headed to Avis for a Rav4 I had reserved. Nice lady said I have upgraded you, space 5. Found a brand new Jeep Grand Cherokee in our spot! We own a 2012 GC Overland, so the comparisons started right away. Ours is black and the rental was white. Also, was dirty after five minutes. Interior was nice, but this was a Limited, so it was all leather look-alike vinyl. The seats are much more contoured than in our GC. All of the gauges are 'soft' or glass. No mechanical anything. Giant screen in the middle of the dash controls everything. I like the Nav system much more than ours. You can actually see the screen and have some idea of the street names. It's also a different program. If you take a different turn, it doesn't scream at you for fifteen minutes to make a u-turn, like ours does.
I entered the address with no guessing about how to change the state, city, country, et cetera, like ours requires. We were heading to Gaithersburg, which is about 30 minutes away. There is no lock button on the door or door handle, so you need the key fob to lock the doors. Also, the rear hatch closing button is well disguised as something else. The center console still has the upper and lower compartments, but they have fixed the opening mechanism. Ours has been broken for about 10 years.
The cruise control controls are on the steering wheel, but they have carried the gliphs to the point of uselessness. I could not get it to turn on.
The new GC also has something called lane management. The first time I got close to the edge of my lane and it took over steering, I almost crashed. That was the first thing I turned off.
It also has the engine shut off when stopped longer than five seconds 'feature'. What a bunch of cr*p. That was the second thing I shut off.
It rode OK, but not as good as ours with the air-bag suspension. It also lacks the height adjust feature.
Finally, the mini-van motor just does not compare to the Hemi. I step on the gas and it downshifts five or six gears and the engine goes hyper. Very hard to control and, I'm thinking, not very long lasting.
I 'built' one like it on Jeep.com and got a price of $51,700. the dealerships around here are all asking $54,500 for it. There seems to be a lot of them available.
I think we will keep our 2012. It just turned 100k and we put in a new transmission. Everything else is good.
I entered the address with no guessing about how to change the state, city, country, et cetera, like ours requires. We were heading to Gaithersburg, which is about 30 minutes away. There is no lock button on the door or door handle, so you need the key fob to lock the doors. Also, the rear hatch closing button is well disguised as something else. The center console still has the upper and lower compartments, but they have fixed the opening mechanism. Ours has been broken for about 10 years.
The cruise control controls are on the steering wheel, but they have carried the gliphs to the point of uselessness. I could not get it to turn on.
The new GC also has something called lane management. The first time I got close to the edge of my lane and it took over steering, I almost crashed. That was the first thing I turned off.
It also has the engine shut off when stopped longer than five seconds 'feature'. What a bunch of cr*p. That was the second thing I shut off.
It rode OK, but not as good as ours with the air-bag suspension. It also lacks the height adjust feature.
Finally, the mini-van motor just does not compare to the Hemi. I step on the gas and it downshifts five or six gears and the engine goes hyper. Very hard to control and, I'm thinking, not very long lasting.
I 'built' one like it on Jeep.com and got a price of $51,700. the dealerships around here are all asking $54,500 for it. There seems to be a lot of them available.
I think we will keep our 2012. It just turned 100k and we put in a new transmission. Everything else is good.
