The only thing I wanted to see more than this Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 punching through the air at 180 miles an hour was to have a microphone hidden inside of the Porsche 918 that was trailing along behind. That’s $845,000 worth of the finest that Stuttgart has to offer, a technological wonder that is fast with a capital F, getting walked by a sports-utility vehicle that’s named after a legendary military offroader, that weighs a couple of tons and, beyond all reason, is geared up to act like a muscle car, with the big engine and the ability to make long distances short with the push of a pedal. We’ve seen several turbocharged Grand Cherokees now, and each and every one has something in common: the laws of aerodynamics just don’t seem to apply to these monsters! They hook, book, and freight-train towards the top end in a manner that is more Hemi ‘Cuda than it is mall crawler, and the only downside involves cleaning off the film of what used to be bugs out of the grille and off of the windshield!
