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Light blue jeep c11/21/2023 It has four-wheel drive to bust through the snowdrifts in your driveway or muck through the bog on the way to the summer cabin. The Cherokee can take you to town in the winter or haul a ski boat in the summer. It’s easy to believe the Cherokee was designed in Kenosha and Toledo, because it harks back to America before the Interstates, when it was tough just to get around. It’s a little hard to get your mind wrapped around the Cherokee’s mission in life, but Jeep tries to help by calling it “SportWagon.” It’s a station wagon with extra-functional overtones, an American car in Oshkosh overalls-part car, part truck. The result of the XJ’s rigid and lightweight chassis, and the clever suspension, was excellent ride and handling for a 4×4, with Car and Driver writing at the time: When the 4.0-liter inline-six joined the party in 1987, the Cherokee began cementing its legendary status as a truly affordable, practical, reliable, powerful, daily-drivable vehicle that brought off-roading to the masses and not just to owners of niche, harsh-riding machines.Īnyway, here’s what a 1983 Cherokee looked like (OK, this is from a 1982 brochure, but they looked the same): It was a true breakthrough in the SUV world, and the first-ever five-link coil-sprung solid axle front suspension also played into that. The result was a vehicle that weighed under 3,000 pounds - over 1,000 pounds less than its predecessor (!) - and that maintained 90 percent of its predecessor’s interior volume. And it’s light in weight, but also strong and durable. It provides better ground clearance while maintaining a lower vehicle ride height. UniFrame holds twisting to a minimum under all types of loads and terrain. There’s a new structural design called UniFrame that takes a weight-reduced, conventional frame and welds it directly to the floor pan. Jeep called it the “uniframe” design, and described it thusly: This is not how one should really think about unibody vehicles, as “integrated” frame might conjure thoughts of big parallel rails going the entire length of a body, with crossmembers tying it all together - basically a frame welded to a body, but with the Jeep Cherokee this isn’t a bad way to think of it.
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