2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee Will Be New for the First Time in a Decade | Car and Driver

Published 4/8/2020 on Car and Driver by Daniel Pund

The next-gen model will ride on an Alfa Romeo platform and offer four-cylinder, V-6, V-8, and hybrid powertrains.

This story originally appeared in the May 2020 issue of Car and Driver, which was produced in February and early March. The information was gathered before the auto industry began feeling major effects of the coronavirus pandemic. As many automakers are now delaying or pausing development programs, the debut and on-sale dates reported here may change.

The Jeep Grand Cherokee doesn’t really need to be replaced. This luxury-SUV stalwart is as handsome and pleasant a vehicle to drive as anything in FCA’s lineup. But this generation came out in 2010; that’s an eternity in the modern SUV world. The current version is so old that its Mercedes-Benz-based underpinnings date back to the DaimlerChrysler days. Still, Jeep managed to sell more than 242,000 of them in the U.S. in 2019. That’s not just the best year of the WG2 generation’s nine-year run, it’s the best annual sales for the nameplate since 2000.