The Grand Cherokee made its entrance by driving through a wall. At the 1992 Detroit auto show, Chrysler president Bob Lutz pointed a prototype ZJ at the convention center's plate glass and drove straight through it onto the stage, which tells you exactly how much confidence Jeep had in its first Grand Cherokee. It backed up the theater with a proper unibody, available V8 power, and the kind of on-road polish the segment hadn't seen.
For us 90's kids, this is probably the Jeep we saw most often. It looked to me like a pretty pedestrian SUV that couldn't decide if it wanted to be old-school boxy or new-school sleek, but it was actually a pretty souped-up machine for the era. Jeep dropped in the 5.9-liter Magnum V8 from the Ram truck lineup, good for 245 horsepower and 345 lb-ft, and the result hit 60 mph in about 6.8 seconds. In 1998 that made it the quickest SUV you could buy, trading blows with muscle cars while wearing leather and fake wood (which objectively rules).
The 5.9 Limited is a 'luxury' Jeep with a muscle-car heart. The regular V8 ZJs are the sleeper bargain; the 5.9 is the one for the real SUV historian.

The WK2 is the generation where Jeep lost its mind. The mainstream versions, built from 2011, were a big step up in refinement thanks to a chassis co-developed during the Mercedes-Benz era, and they sold by the trainload as comfortable, capable family haulers. That's not the version anyone writes stories about.
The version people write stories about is the Trackhawk. In 2018 Jeep stuffed the 6.2-liter supercharged Hellcat V8 from the Dodge Challenger under the hood, producing 707 horsepower and hurling a two-and-a-half-ton SUV to 60 mph in about 3.5 seconds on its way to 180. At launch it was the quickest SUV on the planet, a school-run Jeep that would humiliate most sports cars at a stoplight. Below it sat the 6.4-liter SRT and its 470 horsepower, still plenty quick and a good deal cheaper to run.
If you want the full circus act, the Trackhawk is a modern classic in waiting and prices reflect it. If you want most of the drama for a fraction of the money, the naturally aspirated SRT is the smart enthusiast's WK2.

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