Jeep Grand Cherokee: Moose test Jeep in The Balance

A Swedish car magazine has launched a Jeep Grand Cherokee for the elk test almost over. Jeep says the vehicle was simply overloaded.

E Team in Swedish automotive journalists has a moose test (avoidance maneuver with 63.5 km / h) a current model of the Jeep Grand Cherokee nearly brought to a rollover. The American SUV with 20-inch tires, ESP and electronic rollover protection was, according to the magazine Teknikens Värld not ("the art world") just because of the driving skills of the driver put on the side. In photos and in a video you can see the jeep on two wheels, swing through the pylons. The recommendation of the testers: Jeep should not sell the car so forth. Our photo (above) comes from the Euro NCAP crash test , then drove the Grand Cherokee four-star (see video).

Chrysler says the tester had the Grand Cherokee with 50 kilos overweight, but why did the SUV had the elk test problems. The journalists from "Teknikens Värld" deny this: they would have fitted the Jeep with five people plus luggage and not allowable load is exceeded. Chrysler engineers examined the test results of the magazine. The engineer tried in numerous tests with a correctly loaded vehicle, the lifting of two wheels to reproduce from the road surface. Result, according to Chrysler: Even after extensive testing, no such result can be achieved. In another test run (the eleven studies with three vehicles) with the journalists and engineers at the Chrysler Jeep is still good on all four wheels.

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