This is a really great commercial highlighting all the ‘firsts’ for Jeep – ending up with the ‘first’ ever lifetime warranty on Powertrain. The music and the theme and presentation are all really excellent at painting a ‘legacy and future’ image. I like this one.
This is that nice and smooth (and very funny!) Jeep Liberty Commercial where the Liberty is driving down a forested road and collects different animals that all sing ‘rock me gently’ – pay attention to the wolf!
Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 – the BIG PIG:
Ran across an interesting review of the new Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 tonight. Seems Chrysler has fallen on it’s sword (again?) and delivered another purpose-built ‘useless’ vehicle – useless that is, unless you are of the same ilk that desires to drive around in a pimped out Escalade with 30″ spinners and extra batteries to pump juice into all your amplifiers.
Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 – Test Drive – Review – When Pigs Fly – New York Times
The SRT8 does an impressive 0-60mph in under 5 seconds – that is right there neck and neck with the Porche Cayenne! But MAN it gets under 10MPG according to the writer (EZRA DYER) who drove it around in ‘real life’ mode.
See the Commercial for the SRT8 Here
You can imagine what a 6.1-liter Hemi V-8 (420 horsepower, 420 pound-feet) with five-speed automatic transmission would do in any vehicle and it certainly sounds like it screams on the straight. Handling was best described “…all the lithesome agility of a sinking tugboat…”
Anyway, not a vehicle I would park in my driveway let alone drive – well, ok, maybe If I had lots of spare cash lying around, it might be fun to have for driving to Vegas or something!
I came across this interesting story on the official Jeep ‘Geocaching’ site. It may not be new to many of you but it is new to me! Apparently Jeep gives away thousands of Red Rock Crystal Pearl Jeep Commander with an official metal tag attached to Jeep owners and asks them to Geocache them and track them. When you find one you go to the website and record its id number and location you found it and then go cache it somewhere else.
Sounds like fun to me!
Jeep Travel Bug
Feb 132008
Another classic Jeep Commercial – it is the one with the hardcore mountain climbers that finally get to the top only to discover that a Jeep TJ has already made it!