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Written by Ollie Marriage
You won"t believe what the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk does when you engage launch mode. I couldn"t. It was bloody hilarious. Afterwards. Fairly shocking during it, if I"m honest. So you come to a halt, press the button with the drag strip traffic light markings on it, apply as much pressure as you can on the brake pedal a useful graphic on the dash tells you exactly how much (my left leg maxed out at 108bar), wallop the throttle and note that you are already moving forwards. Yep, the Trackhawk is that eager to get going. Or, to put it another way, 400mm Brembo stoppers aren"t strong enough to prevent 707bhp of supercharged V8 getting going. You release the brakes. The rear wheels spin, the nose heaves into the air, there"s a furious bellowing and out of the windscreen you note that the horizon line has also changed. The front left tyre must now be flat, you deduce. It"s not, it"s just that the rotating masses of the 6.2-litre V8 place so much stress on the chassis that it rocks over to one side.
Date written: 29 Dec 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14414
You won"t believe what the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk does when you engage launch mode. I couldn"t. It was bloody hilarious. Afterwards. Fairly shocking during it, if I"m honest. So you come to a halt, press the button with the drag strip traffic light markings on it, apply as much pressure as you can on the brake pedal a useful graphic on the dash tells you exactly how much (my left leg maxed out at 108bar), wallop the throttle and note that you are already moving forwards. Yep, the Trackhawk is that eager to get going. Or, to put it another way, 400mm Brembo stoppers aren"t strong enough to prevent 707bhp of supercharged V8 getting going. You release the brakes. The rear wheels spin, the nose heaves into the air, there"s a furious bellowing and out of the windscreen you note that the horizon line has also changed. The front left tyre must now be flat, you deduce. It"s not, it"s just that the rotating masses of the 6.2-litre V8 place so much stress on the chassis that it rocks over to one side.
Date written: 29 Dec 2018
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 14414
