![]() ![]() ![]() No wonder Jeep is touted to be planning a new Hellcat-powered Grand Cherokee Trackhawk with 707 horsepower and 650 pound feet of torque.Īll of this is crazy fun, but I remember piloting that first-gen Grand Cherokee SRT8 around Southern California’s Willow Springs Raceway back in the day, rubbing up against 210 km/h (130 mph-plus) through the uncomfortably kinked final corner before entering the short, quick straight, finding even more speed and enjoying every hair-raising millisecond of it, just like I loved every moment behind the wheel of the latest 2016 version. Horsepower (259 from the front electric motor and 503 from the rear) plus 713 lb-ft of torque. Now even the weakest of these four puts more asphalt churning thrust through its four wheels than the comparatively docile Jeep, the comparatively lightweight aluminum-bodied Range Rover Sport SVR kicking out 550 horsepower and 502 pound-feet of torque, whereas the next most powerful X5 M makes 567 horsepower and 553 lb-ft of torque, the Cayenne Turbo S produces 570 horsepower and 590 lb-ft of torque, and the new Mercedes-Benz GLE AMG 63 creates 577 horsepower and 560 lb-ft of torque, while the previously unfathomed Tesla Model X P90D is said to be good for 762 all-electric Remember when Jeep first added the Street and Racing Technology “ SRT” initials to its flagship Grand Cherokee in 2006, that model’s 420 horsepower 6.1-litre Hemi V8 enough to shame the super-SUVs of the era, including BMW’s X5 4.8si, Mercedes-Benz’ ML55 AMG, Porsche’s Cayenne Turbo, and what was then the entirely new Land Rover Sport Supercharged. Photo: Trevor Hofmann, Canadian Auto Press Since when did 475 horsepower and 470 lb-ft of torque merely become adequate in a performance SUV? ![]()
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