Off-Roading in the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8
How Well Does the Big, Powerful Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 Handle Muddy Country Lanes?
The SRT8 sits lower than a standard Grand Cherokee. It has a larger front airdam, too. And don’t forget about those summer-only Pirelli tires, either. As such, the SRT8 is hardly an off-road machine. But how does it handle some light, muddy trails?
About as well as we expected, honestly. It’s still a Jeep for goodness sake. We’re certain it can handle a lot more than the fellow in the video above decided to throw at it, too. In any case, we think that driving this monster on the narrow, winding paved roads of the English countryside would be far more difficult than a trundle down a muddy two-track.
In the video, Car Throttle demonstrates the big truck’s ability to carry itself through town centers and on paved lanes. The SRT8 is very large for European roads. Cherokees don’t look like much on roads Stateside, because there are so many of them. But over there, it must be like navigating a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier down a mountain stream.
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Does Europe really need an SRT8 Jeep? Probably not, but if you’re really interested, you can buy one for about 70,000 British pounds sterling (roughly $86,079). Here in the U.S., without shipping, value-added taxes, and the like, you can get one for about $20K less — even cheaper on the used market, of course. If you must live in the U.K., though, and you want the biggest and baddest SUV this side of Mercedes-AMG, you might be willing to pay that huge price.
Still, while the light off-roading in this video could probably be handled by your average family sedan — mud puddles and all — the juggernaut Jeep still impresses the Car Throttle guys. Are you impressed, too?
