Following the debut of the all-new 2011 auto Grand Cherokee, it did not take long before the queries and therefore the rumors started flying: can auto bring back the Cherokee SRT8? Chrysler's Street and Race Technology team remained quiet through all the speculation and waited till the 2011 ny car show to deliver its answer within the type of its latest uber-Jeep, the 2012 auto Grand Cherokee SRT8.
Once we tested the first-gen Cherokee SRT8 around California's Willow Springs Raceway back in 2006, we tend to quickly discovered that its half-dozen.1-liter Hemi V-8 -- rated at 420 H.P. and 420 pound-feet of torsion -- helped build it one in all the quickest and most agile sport/utilities we tend to had ever tested, outperforming the Porsche Cayenne Turbo within the skidpad, slalom, and 0-60 mph time (4.8 to 5.1 seconds, respectively).
Not amazingly, Chrysler's revamped half-dozen.4-liter Hemi has been fitted underneath hood of the new super auto. each the H.P. and torsion figures raise to 465, forty five quite before. auto continues to be rating the 0-60 mph time at four.8 seconds, though there is a sensible likelihood that Chrysler is also sandbagging. We'll conclude in time once we get our hands on one. More power, however, does not equate to minimized fuel economy, because of Chrysler's Fuel Saver Technology and new-for-2012 active valve system, that deactivates four cylinders in most cruising things. that ought to be adequate for a 13-percent improvement in route fuel consumption, consistent with the automaker's estimations
