Coarse and unresponsive; poorly-engineered and executed. A premium-brand SUV? Pull the other one A second chance for the new Jeep Cherokee. Our full road test on the car was about as bristling with praise for this troubled compact SUV as you’d expect of a two and a half star verdict.Among very few causes for hope was the more powerful diesel version, available exclusively with a nine-speed ZF automatic transmission, which is the car under inspection here.It's a good two seconds quicker to 60mph than the 138bhp manual version and capable of towing half a tonne more on a braked trailer. It's also fitted with no fewer than four overdrive ratios for economical cruising.So, the Cherokee JTDm-2 170 automatic certainly appears to be stiffer competition for a premium SUV. But it isn’t. In fact, it’s got greater failings than the cheaper, slower manual.
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