The Jeep Grand Cherokee is expected to ditch its venerable V6 engine in favor of a smaller, more efficient four-cylinder powertrain, but there’s no word yet on whether it will feature a six-cylinder Hurricane. new straight linen or not.
Mopar Insider reports from inside sources that, by 2025, Jeep will replace the Pentastar 3.6-liter V6 gasoline engine with an updated version of the 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder. was on duty in the Wrangler.
Jeep parent company Stellantis has also phased out the 5.7-liter Hemi V8 engine in its product range, according to the report.
The V8 was never offered on the current WL-series Grand Cherokee in Australia, but was offered in North America – although it was dropped from shorter two-row models there last year.
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Grand Cherokee 4xe
The move will see the Grand Cherokee exclusively offer four-cylinder engines. The top powertrain, offered only in the shorter two-row body, is a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder hybrid.
It’s unclear whether Jeep will increase the turbo four’s output for the full-size Grand Cherokee.
In the Wrangler, the GME-T4 four-cylinder engine produces 200kW of power and 400Nm of torque. That’s 10kW less but 56Nm more than the Grand Cherokee’s V6.
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Grand Cherokee L
It’s unclear whether the Grand Cherokee will get the Stellantis inline-six twin-turbo gasoline engine, which is replacing the long-running Hemi V8 in products such as Ram 1500.
said former Jeep global president Christian Meunier Car expert that year 2022 Such a move is “feasible” but “a matter of priorities and potential business cases”.
Related to the GME-T4 used in the Wrangler and sharing its bore, stroke and cylinder spacing, the Hurricane six is available with multiple tunes and a plug-in hybrid version is planned.
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Grand cherokee
In the larger Jeep Wagoneer L, it’s available in standard 313kW/635Nm power tune and 375kW/678Nm high power tune.
This engine would be considered the logical successor to the 5.7-liter Hemi V8. In high-output guise, it also outperforms the 6.4-litre V8 used in the hot SRT version of the previous generation Grand Cherokee, which was good for 344kW and 624Nm.
The current WL series is the first generation of Grand Cherokee not to offer a diesel engine option, while Stellantis is phasing out oil-burning engines globally.
