It’s been three decades since we first met the Jeep Grand Cherokee, and back then we had a strong suspicion we were looking at the future: a sport-ute with the off-road ability of a truck (for trucks is what most SUVs were) and the driving characteristics of a car.
Today we’re face to face with another Grand Cherokee, an 8,700-mile original from Stellantis’ heritage collection. We’re here to find out if we were right. Was the ZJ of the 1990s the SUV of the future?
We are immediately struck by irony: Today’s automakers try to make cars look like
