2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Review - 3 ROW LUXURY OFF ROAD MINIVAN ALTERNATIVE!
**2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Overland Review: A Comprehensive Look**
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### Introduction
In this video review, we’re taking an in-depth look at the all-new 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Overland. This is a three-row version of the popular Jeep Grand Cherokee and it’s packed with features that make it stand out in its class. While we didn’t get to test-launch control, we’ll be covering everything else you need to know about this impressive SUV.
### Exterior Design
The 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Overland has a bold new design that sets it apart from the standard Grand Cherokee. With its overbite front grille and square smile, it definitely makes a statement. In burgundy, it blends in nicely, but in white, it looks more tuner-like with its larger grille. The headlights are simple lines across, nothing too flashy, but they do look decent. The older-style Jeep grille adds some character, and we noticed the night vision sensor in the grille during our drive.
The vehicle comes with Continental Terrain Contact HT tires, which are a good choice for both on-road and off-road performance. The body lines are crisp, and the American flag badge is positioned to wave in the direction of travel, symbolizing freedom and style. While the taillights are modern and sleek, they lack the classic appeal seen in other Jeep models.
The exhaust tips are real, but the sound from outside isn’t very impressive. Inside, however, it feels faster than it actually is. When comparing this model to the Dodge Durango, we’d lean towards the latter for its more aggressive styling, though both have their unique charm.
### Interior Features
Inside the Grand Cherokee L Overland, you’ll find a well-executed interior with premium materials and attention to detail. The gauges are customizable but can be distracting when in “big bubble” mode, especially with radar cruise control. We had an incident where the system tried to accelerate us into the truck ahead, highlighting the importance of always staying alert.
The infotainment system is UConnect 5, a new implementation for Jeep vehicles. It supports both wired and wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, which is great. However, switching between satellite radio stations feels sluggish, with unnecessary transitions that delay playback.
The massage feature is a standout, but it requires pressing an on button first before selecting the type of massage. This minor inconvenience doesn’t overshadow the overall luxury feel. The heated and cooled seats are well-ventilated, and the steering wheel is heated for added comfort. Hard buttons for these features make them easily accessible, which we appreciate.
The interior design includes a nice 360-degree camera system, though it lacks the ability to see the back wheels directly. A family cam feature allows you to monitor your passengers during drives, which is particularly useful for families. The materials used are top-notch, with wood and piano black accents adding a touch of elegance.
### Performance
The Grand Cherokee L Overland comes with a 3.6-liter V6 engine producing 290 horsepower and 257 pound-feet of torque. While it’s not the most powerful engine available (a V8 option is also on offer), the vehicle performs well once you get past its initial slow start. The eight-speed automatic transmission shifts smoothly, but downshifting can be slow when needing quick acceleration.
The air suspension system is a highlight, offering multiple height adjustments and providing excellent comfort on and off the road. With Trail Rated certification, this SUV is capable of handling various terrains with ease. The absence of launch control doesn’t detract much from its performance, though it’s noticeable in more demanding situations.
### Towing and Features
This model can tow up to 6,200 pounds with the V6 engine, increasing to over 8,000 pounds with the optional V8. The third row is roomy enough for adults, although legroom is limited when knees are bent. Cargo space is ample, making it a practical choice for families.
The sound system, while not top-tier, delivers decent audio quality and adds to the vehicle’s premium feel. We’re curious about the brand mentioned (Macintosh) but found the overall experience satisfactory.
### Pricing and Competitors
Priced at $52,495 CAD, the Grand Cherokee L Overland is a premium vehicle that competes with models like the Ford Expedition, Chevy Tahoe, and Dodge Durango. It feels more luxurious than these competitors, though we’d hesitate to say it surpasses Lincoln in terms of interior quality or comfort.
### Conclusion
Overall, the 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L Overland is a well-rounded SUV that excels in luxury, comfort, and off-road capability. While it has a few minor flaws like the gauge cluster distraction and slow satellite radio transitions, its strengths far outweigh these issues. If you’re in the market for a spacious, luxurious SUV with excellent features, the Grand Cherokee L Overland is definitely worth considering.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: eni'm yuri i'm jacob we're going for a drive 2021 jeep grand cherokee l overland without launch control interesting kind of slow kind of torquey off the line though horsepower and torque 290 horsepower 257 pound-feet of torque from a 3.6 liter v6 so what is a jeep grand cherokee l it's the three row version of the jeep grand cherokee and the jeep grand cherokee is also what the track hawk is right yes so both of them exist at the same time but this one is different correct if you're shopping for a jeep grand cherokee in the united states visit the true car link below to get discounted price offers from local dealers so this is all new and they haven't ever had a three-row jeep grand cherokee before so we should probably start with the looks yeah so it does look a little bit different than the regular grand cherokee i feel like it kind of has like an overbite in the front it looks like a big square smile yes with braces yes but i overall think it looks pretty cool um in white it looks a lot more tuner car with a lot more grille but in this burgundy it kind of blends in nicely yeah and it also even looks more luxurious in white i don't really like this color so the headlights they're just lines that go across but they do look pretty good yeah nothing special but i think the regular jeep grand cherokee has actually way better headlights they just look so cool and then we do have an older style jeep grill along the front and in that grille there's actually a little sensor which is very cool that we have that because this thing has night vision and you can use it during the day in your gauge cluster and you pretty much just see exhaust tips lit up yeah all we've been doing is using it like exclusively because you can use it during the day and all you see is the heat signatures from the exhaust and like from breaks and stuff you are a predator it's really cool yeah really distracting though oh yeah but i love it because on other cars i'm pretty sure it's blocked out until it's nighttime like the porsche cayenne i think even the cadillac as well the escalade okay but the dumb thing is so say you're driving with uh with night vision right yep in cruise control yep if you hit the brakes when you see something to avoid it's say it's like a deer then the gauge cluster pops up and it'll get rid of your night vision yeah we have some nitpicks with this gauge cluster cruise control yes side view uh looks pretty good again nothing too special but there is a chrome swoop that you pointed out that looks cool yeah it goes all the way from the top along the back and all the way up to the top on the other side again and i think these wheels actually look really nice as well i'm gonna go with like pretty average it's good for the overland model and what is a continental recommended tire for the jeep grand cherokee l the terrain contact ht okay and then along with the body lines we've got a really nice crisp line that goes all the way across and where our badge is we've got an american flag there too yeah america and then uh the american flag is opposite on the passenger side because you always want it like waving the direction of the wind that you'd be going it's not retreating yeah that's like when we had the police officer uniforms they're like that american flag's on the wrong side and we're like these are stripper costumes it said officer noddy and moving around to the back the taillights are pretty decent nice leds yeah nice little a good line but it's nothing that's like very classic like a lot of the other jeeps and dodges right it's not like the macho man randy savage kind of thing yeah just like solidly good and then we've got real exhaust tips 2021 reel down there at the bottom yes you can see the real tip inside the fake tip and what does it sound like from the outside not very good and what does it sound like from the inside yuri sounds faster than it is yeah does not move very quickly so looks wise would you take this over a durango because they are both technically three rows uh i'd actually have to go with the durango srt hellcat thing whatever it's called yeah it does it does look really good but then they are also coming out with the jeep wagoneer which i think is also a three row wagoneer and the grand wagoneer the grand wagoneer will be the three row yeah there's like a lot of weird overlap but it is cool i guess that they're doing stuff and it is a cool alternative to a minivan which we're also reviewing this week which actually has a whole bunch of similarities so if you want the extra room for everyone but you don't want an suv be sure to watch that review when it comes out yes chrysler pinnacle edition or whatever chrysler pacifica pinnacle edition all-wheel drive so now moving on to the interior let's continue on with the gauges and the radar cruise control stuff okay so the quick nitpicks that we have the gauges are really customizable which is really nice you can have a couple different modes however if you have it into the big bubble mode no matter what you do if you have the smallest warning if your cruise speed changes if you press the gas if you turn on something then it actually moves the bubbles to the side yeah it's pretty annoying like a huge oversight i think in the design it's very distracting as well yeah because they're constantly moving so if you're in full radar cruise and then you tap the brakes it'll it'll change and be like cruise control has been reset and it's like if you're using the night vision you do that then you can't see the night vision you can't see the thing you're trying to avoid right but the radar cruise is the good kind of radar cruise like the alfa romeo and the maserati yeah so you only have to touch your fingers to the steering wheel or even your legs but i did have a little incident where it tried to accelerate me into the truck in front of me and i had to slam the brakes so that was a little sketchy only happened once so like every radar cruise control system keep your eyes on the road yes no matter the manufacturer always always so moving on to this infotainment couple little nitpicks here it is pretty fluid for the most part it is new yes it is uconnect 5 which is the first implementation of it in a jeep vehicle and it's also in the chrysler pacifica minivan right so we do have wireless and wired apple carplay and android auto which is really nice we do have satellite radio however using the actual tuning knob thank you for having a hard button there's some lag between switching between stations and stuff pretty much when you do your first turn it goes to a new screen and it takes forever like guys you don't need to go to that new screen everyone's doing that in satellite radio exactly stop it yeah ford's doing it gm's doing it like everybody's doing that stop so the next issue again a little nitpick is that the massages because yes we have massages so thank you again because that's awesome to turn them on you don't actually press the buttons that you want to be the massage you actually have to press the on button first it's like it's a little user error input that you're like come on or you push the massage button on your door panel and then it just starts massaging with i guess whatever was the last one yeah so that's great that you do have a hard button for it but it is weird that you can't just click it and it'll start doing it yeah and then we have heated and cooled seats heated steering wheel all the things you want in a fairly luxurious vehicle like this but the heated and cooled seats are hard buttons and heated steering wheel which is amazing usually dodges and chryslers and jeeps hide that in the infotainment right so we do have a bunch of hard buttons on this one which is great it is mostly gloss black so i still don't really like that all the covers are gloss black this one doesn't have too many miles on it and it's already all scratched up yeah but this is kind of like aiming to be a luxury version-ish right it for sure is like this interior is actually really nice and before you drive a couple more quick little things we've got a nice 360 camera all the way around however you can't see your back wheels directly like a kia hyundai genesis will i think a lot of other companies are adding that kind of stuff too so i'm a little disappointed with that but we also have a camera on the inside which is your family cam yeah fam cam that's a cool feature so what it's a little camera up there and it lets you see all the seats you can click on that to see which seat you want to highlight and then you can see reverse facing seats and see babies in there as well which i have been using on the pacifica long-term tester that i've been using because it also has pretty much the exact same tech as this and then to get to a lot of those things you can either dig through the infotainment or you can swipe down from the top and then you've got a lot of your favorites that you can set there which i think is really cool considering you have to go through the touchscreen but now it's your turn to drive we could probably talk about all like the nice materials and drive modes and sending it horsepowers and torques which i'm a little disappointed with launch control a lot there's no launch controller i know but it actually break boosted pretty well not bad once you brake boosted but like isn't there supposed to be a v8 model this yes so we do have the v6 there is an optional v8 and without even driving that one i'm going to highly recommend that one because this is a very big vehicle and once you're on the highway it doesn't really have much passing power yeah yeah yeah you need more power better yeah you really do like transmission responds pretty decently but it's just there's not much power to pull you along and speaking about the transmission we do have eight speed auto shifts relatively smoothly it's not very quick because you just downshift downshift downshift downshift like it's not the fastest so this is when you just definitely leave it in auto but we do have kind of funny paddles yeah the steering wheel's got the chrysler buttons behind the steering wheel for your radio stuff which is perfect i love it in all my cars they really prioritize the volume the the the paddles are like the size of a potato chip that's been broken yeah i can see that but like you still hit it every time right so like whatever but you kind of feel like there should be more paddle all right so let's uh send this underpowered behemoth of a vehicle into cliche corner and i mean not the worst no it's not the worst like it's actually pretty good it's you you notice the lack of power but you also notice the suspension comfort because we do have air suspension and it is awesome on this car i really like this air suspension system the amount you can raise and lower it like you can get this thing so high not too low it's not like alpena low but you can get this so high yeah it's nice that it's adjustable we do have a hard button to actually do that you can see it raising and lowering and it does work pretty quickly yeah and this is trail rated yes because this is the overland yes it's the overlapping overload overland overland and it seems like from everyone else's videos and stuff that have already been posted it is very capable off-road plus has the badge the badge means yeah it doesn't have a tent on the roof so it's not really like an overlander and one of the things that stands out about this car is how easy it is to drive with the steering wheel because it's basically effortless like it's not you know effortless in comparison to a rolls-royce but for something like this i would say it's kind of like lincoln luxurious like lincoln and even like um this kind of reminds me of land rover range rover i feel like this is a good competitor for that yeah this didn't we call the other one the grand cherokee the american range rover and the title because that's very close to what this is and what that was maybe i think so and this is a 4x4 yes it is all-wheel drive but we can go into four-wheel drive low as well so you can't actually take this off-road and then we have a bunch of different drive modes sport auto snow sand mud and rock and a hill decent assist yeah so everything you'd really need but i've just left this in auto okay how about materials and stuff inside very good i would say quite top notch especially for stalantis surprisingly nice for a jeep but i know jeeps are nice sometimes now right exactly i think they're they're trying to up market jeep especially with the wagoneer and the grand wagoneer that are coming and you do have a nice head-up display in here too yeah which is really nice and then we have pretty nice steering wheel buttons we do have adaptive cruise and lane keep like we said earlier everything's pretty good in here yeah this wood pattern that's even on the steering wheel too and on the sides is nice the way it all matches up the piano black you mentioned earlier yeah the piano black is my biggest criticism we do have a wireless charger and in terms of comfort these seats are really comfortable like very very comfortable yeah no issues with them at all and the massage is very good and then second row comfort is very good you can move them forward and back and then third row they say you can actually fit a adult comfortably i am an adult and i do fit comfortably back there you gotta have your knees really bent exactly and if you fold down all the seats then we can probably get to the box test one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 get your own box on patreon.com the straight pipes so how about some other tests we've got a medium cup of coffee and it fits just fine i think a small would just fit yeah full pass and visors three two one yes great job perfect and people buying this type of jeep probably care about towing so they can tow up to 6 200 pounds with the v6 if you go up to the v8 you can tow like a thousand pounds more or two thousand pounds and then something we don't talk about very often is sound systems this has a macintosh macintosh mckintosh we're not sure but it's never very good never heard this brand before no but it's a very good system yeah yeah i really like it and the speakers look cool and the font's kind of cool yeah the font is like yeah it's like metallica yeah i think blink what's the one after blink 182 like good charlotte or something oh no none of those yeah i can see that so i feel like that's pretty much everything with this besides going full off-roading which we didn't do today yeah oh peasant blockers in the back yes we do peasant blockers in the back and what about baby seats back there totally fits yeah and i love having captain's chairs for baby backseat stuff it's so much more convenient than benches i think true then you can kind of like move your leg over to the side but then like your partner would be a distance apart from the baby but they can like actually turn over and like look it's it's easier that way right okay you can slide that one seat up all right let's get to the price the grand cherokee l starts at 52 495 canadian and the one that we're driving is 80 265 a lot of money but it is a premium vehicle and definitely feels like it yeah and it competes with the ford expedition the chevy tahoe and the dodge durango which is also a status brand yeah this feels more luxurious than all of those 100 i would agree with that um do you think it's more luxurious than a lincoln i don't think so i feel like i like the interior more where the lincoln may feel a little more like plasticky like all their knobs are like chrome but they're like i think it all looks nicer and i also feel like it also drove better and it also had more power in the lincoln yeah because that was the twin turbo the ecoboost but then you get in there and you can't adjust your seat easily and then this is just like simple yeah the perfect position because that's like kind of a nightmare sometimes yeah you're right and if you're shopping for a new jeep grand cherokee and you live in the united states click the true car link below there's a discount when using the stray pipes link you can also shop for a used jeep grand cherokee using truecar and if you live in canada there's a car help canada link below so overall i think they did a really good job with this brand new vehicle and it slots in well with its competition yeah it's cool to see a luxury version of a jeep especially when there's just like straight-up wrangler versions and jeeps and stuff exactly we just have a couple little nitpicks on the interior and like that's it this is a really good car yeah i didn't full channel but we've got that veggies yeah you're just like the best so let us know what you guys think of this that they do a good enough job youi'm yuri i'm jacob we're going for a drive 2021 jeep grand cherokee l overland without launch control interesting kind of slow kind of torquey off the line though horsepower and torque 290 horsepower 257 pound-feet of torque from a 3.6 liter v6 so what is a jeep grand cherokee l it's the three row version of the jeep grand cherokee and the jeep grand cherokee is also what the track hawk is right yes so both of them exist at the same time but this one is different correct if you're shopping for a jeep grand cherokee in the united states visit the true car link below to get discounted price offers from local dealers so this is all new and they haven't ever had a three-row jeep grand cherokee before so we should probably start with the looks yeah so it does look a little bit different than the regular grand cherokee i feel like it kind of has like an overbite in the front it looks like a big square smile yes with braces yes but i overall think it looks pretty cool um in white it looks a lot more tuner car with a lot more grille but in this burgundy it kind of blends in nicely yeah and it also even looks more luxurious in white i don't really like this color so the headlights they're just lines that go across but they do look pretty good yeah nothing special but i think the regular jeep grand cherokee has actually way better headlights they just look so cool and then we do have an older style jeep grill along the front and in that grille there's actually a little sensor which is very cool that we have that because this thing has night vision and you can use it during the day in your gauge cluster and you pretty much just see exhaust tips lit up yeah all we've been doing is using it like exclusively because you can use it during the day and all you see is the heat signatures from the exhaust and like from breaks and stuff you are a predator it's really cool yeah really distracting though oh yeah but i love it because on other cars i'm pretty sure it's blocked out until it's nighttime like the porsche cayenne i think even the cadillac as well the escalade okay but the dumb thing is so say you're driving with uh with night vision right yep in cruise control yep if you hit the brakes when you see something to avoid it's say it's like a deer then the gauge cluster pops up and it'll get rid of your night vision yeah we have some nitpicks with this gauge cluster cruise control yes side view uh looks pretty good again nothing too special but there is a chrome swoop that you pointed out that looks cool yeah it goes all the way from the top along the back and all the way up to the top on the other side again and i think these wheels actually look really nice as well i'm gonna go with like pretty average it's good for the overland model and what is a continental recommended tire for the jeep grand cherokee l the terrain contact ht okay and then along with the body lines we've got a really nice crisp line that goes all the way across and where our badge is we've got an american flag there too yeah america and then uh the american flag is opposite on the passenger side because you always want it like waving the direction of the wind that you'd be going it's not retreating yeah that's like when we had the police officer uniforms they're like that american flag's on the wrong side and we're like these are stripper costumes it said officer noddy and moving around to the back the taillights are pretty decent nice leds yeah nice little a good line but it's nothing that's like very classic like a lot of the other jeeps and dodges right it's not like the macho man randy savage kind of thing yeah just like solidly good and then we've got real exhaust tips 2021 reel down there at the bottom yes you can see the real tip inside the fake tip and what does it sound like from the outside not very good and what does it sound like from the inside yuri sounds faster than it is yeah does not move very quickly so looks wise would you take this over a durango because they are both technically three rows uh i'd actually have to go with the durango srt hellcat thing whatever it's called yeah it does it does look really good but then they are also coming out with the jeep wagoneer which i think is also a three row wagoneer and the grand wagoneer the grand wagoneer will be the three row yeah there's like a lot of weird overlap but it is cool i guess that they're doing stuff and it is a cool alternative to a minivan which we're also reviewing this week which actually has a whole bunch of similarities so if you want the extra room for everyone but you don't want an suv be sure to watch that review when it comes out yes chrysler pinnacle edition or whatever chrysler pacifica pinnacle edition all-wheel drive so now moving on to the interior let's continue on with the gauges and the radar cruise control stuff okay so the quick nitpicks that we have the gauges are really customizable which is really nice you can have a couple different modes however if you have it into the big bubble mode no matter what you do if you have the smallest warning if your cruise speed changes if you press the gas if you turn on something then it actually moves the bubbles to the side yeah it's pretty annoying like a huge oversight i think in the design it's very distracting as well yeah because they're constantly moving so if you're in full radar cruise and then you tap the brakes it'll it'll change and be like cruise control has been reset and it's like if you're using the night vision you do that then you can't see the night vision you can't see the thing you're trying to avoid right but the radar cruise is the good kind of radar cruise like the alfa romeo and the maserati yeah so you only have to touch your fingers to the steering wheel or even your legs but i did have a little incident where it tried to accelerate me into the truck in front of me and i had to slam the brakes so that was a little sketchy only happened once so like every radar cruise control system keep your eyes on the road yes no matter the manufacturer always always so moving on to this infotainment couple little nitpicks here it is pretty fluid for the most part it is new yes it is uconnect 5 which is the first implementation of it in a jeep vehicle and it's also in the chrysler pacifica minivan right so we do have wireless and wired apple carplay and android auto which is really nice we do have satellite radio however using the actual tuning knob thank you for having a hard button there's some lag between switching between stations and stuff pretty much when you do your first turn it goes to a new screen and it takes forever like guys you don't need to go to that new screen everyone's doing that in satellite radio exactly stop it yeah ford's doing it gm's doing it like everybody's doing that stop so the next issue again a little nitpick is that the massages because yes we have massages so thank you again because that's awesome to turn them on you don't actually press the buttons that you want to be the massage you actually have to press the on button first it's like it's a little user error input that you're like come on or you push the massage button on your door panel and then it just starts massaging with i guess whatever was the last one yeah so that's great that you do have a hard button for it but it is weird that you can't just click it and it'll start doing it yeah and then we have heated and cooled seats heated steering wheel all the things you want in a fairly luxurious vehicle like this but the heated and cooled seats are hard buttons and heated steering wheel which is amazing usually dodges and chryslers and jeeps hide that in the infotainment right so we do have a bunch of hard buttons on this one which is great it is mostly gloss black so i still don't really like that all the covers are gloss black this one doesn't have too many miles on it and it's already all scratched up yeah but this is kind of like aiming to be a luxury version-ish right it for sure is like this interior is actually really nice and before you drive a couple more quick little things we've got a nice 360 camera all the way around however you can't see your back wheels directly like a kia hyundai genesis will i think a lot of other companies are adding that kind of stuff too so i'm a little disappointed with that but we also have a camera on the inside which is your family cam yeah fam cam that's a cool feature so what it's a little camera up there and it lets you see all the seats you can click on that to see which seat you want to highlight and then you can see reverse facing seats and see babies in there as well which i have been using on the pacifica long-term tester that i've been using because it also has pretty much the exact same tech as this and then to get to a lot of those things you can either dig through the infotainment or you can swipe down from the top and then you've got a lot of your favorites that you can set there which i think is really cool considering you have to go through the touchscreen but now it's your turn to drive we could probably talk about all like the nice materials and drive modes and sending it horsepowers and torques which i'm a little disappointed with launch control a lot there's no launch controller i know but it actually break boosted pretty well not bad once you brake boosted but like isn't there supposed to be a v8 model this yes so we do have the v6 there is an optional v8 and without even driving that one i'm going to highly recommend that one because this is a very big vehicle and once you're on the highway it doesn't really have much passing power yeah yeah yeah you need more power better yeah you really do like transmission responds pretty decently but it's just there's not much power to pull you along and speaking about the transmission we do have eight speed auto shifts relatively smoothly it's not very quick because you just downshift downshift downshift downshift like it's not the fastest so this is when you just definitely leave it in auto but we do have kind of funny paddles yeah the steering wheel's got the chrysler buttons behind the steering wheel for your radio stuff which is perfect i love it in all my cars they really prioritize the volume the the the paddles are like the size of a potato chip that's been broken yeah i can see that but like you still hit it every time right so like whatever but you kind of feel like there should be more paddle all right so let's uh send this underpowered behemoth of a vehicle into cliche corner and i mean not the worst no it's not the worst like it's actually pretty good it's you you notice the lack of power but you also notice the suspension comfort because we do have air suspension and it is awesome on this car i really like this air suspension system the amount you can raise and lower it like you can get this thing so high not too low it's not like alpena low but you can get this so high yeah it's nice that it's adjustable we do have a hard button to actually do that you can see it raising and lowering and it does work pretty quickly yeah and this is trail rated yes because this is the overland yes it's the overlapping overload overland overland and it seems like from everyone else's videos and stuff that have already been posted it is very capable off-road plus has the badge the badge means yeah it doesn't have a tent on the roof so it's not really like an overlander and one of the things that stands out about this car is how easy it is to drive with the steering wheel because it's basically effortless like it's not you know effortless in comparison to a rolls-royce but for something like this i would say it's kind of like lincoln luxurious like lincoln and even like um this kind of reminds me of land rover range rover i feel like this is a good competitor for that yeah this didn't we call the other one the grand cherokee the american range rover and the title because that's very close to what this is and what that was maybe i think so and this is a 4x4 yes it is all-wheel drive but we can go into four-wheel drive low as well so you can't actually take this off-road and then we have a bunch of different drive modes sport auto snow sand mud and rock and a hill decent assist yeah so everything you'd really need but i've just left this in auto okay how about materials and stuff inside very good i would say quite top notch especially for stalantis surprisingly nice for a jeep but i know jeeps are nice sometimes now right exactly i think they're they're trying to up market jeep especially with the wagoneer and the grand wagoneer that are coming and you do have a nice head-up display in here too yeah which is really nice and then we have pretty nice steering wheel buttons we do have adaptive cruise and lane keep like we said earlier everything's pretty good in here yeah this wood pattern that's even on the steering wheel too and on the sides is nice the way it all matches up the piano black you mentioned earlier yeah the piano black is my biggest criticism we do have a wireless charger and in terms of comfort these seats are really comfortable like very very comfortable yeah no issues with them at all and the massage is very good and then second row comfort is very good you can move them forward and back and then third row they say you can actually fit a adult comfortably i am an adult and i do fit comfortably back there you gotta have your knees really bent exactly and if you fold down all the seats then we can probably get to the box test one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 get your own box on patreon.com the straight pipes so how about some other tests we've got a medium cup of coffee and it fits just fine i think a small would just fit yeah full pass and visors three two one yes great job perfect and people buying this type of jeep probably care about towing so they can tow up to 6 200 pounds with the v6 if you go up to the v8 you can tow like a thousand pounds more or two thousand pounds and then something we don't talk about very often is sound systems this has a macintosh macintosh mckintosh we're not sure but it's never very good never heard this brand before no but it's a very good system yeah yeah i really like it and the speakers look cool and the font's kind of cool yeah the font is like yeah it's like metallica yeah i think blink what's the one after blink 182 like good charlotte or something oh no none of those yeah i can see that so i feel like that's pretty much everything with this besides going full off-roading which we didn't do today yeah oh peasant blockers in the back yes we do peasant blockers in the back and what about baby seats back there totally fits yeah and i love having captain's chairs for baby backseat stuff it's so much more convenient than benches i think true then you can kind of like move your leg over to the side but then like your partner would be a distance apart from the baby but they can like actually turn over and like look it's it's easier that way right okay you can slide that one seat up all right let's get to the price the grand cherokee l starts at 52 495 canadian and the one that we're driving is 80 265 a lot of money but it is a premium vehicle and definitely feels like it yeah and it competes with the ford expedition the chevy tahoe and the dodge durango which is also a status brand yeah this feels more luxurious than all of those 100 i would agree with that um do you think it's more luxurious than a lincoln i don't think so i feel like i like the interior more where the lincoln may feel a little more like plasticky like all their knobs are like chrome but they're like i think it all looks nicer and i also feel like it also drove better and it also had more power in the lincoln yeah because that was the twin turbo the ecoboost but then you get in there and you can't adjust your seat easily and then this is just like simple yeah the perfect position because that's like kind of a nightmare sometimes yeah you're right and if you're shopping for a new jeep grand cherokee and you live in the united states click the true car link below there's a discount when using the stray pipes link you can also shop for a used jeep grand cherokee using truecar and if you live in canada there's a car help canada link below so overall i think they did a really good job with this brand new vehicle and it slots in well with its competition yeah it's cool to see a luxury version of a jeep especially when there's just like straight-up wrangler versions and jeeps and stuff exactly we just have a couple little nitpicks on the interior and like that's it this is a really good car yeah i didn't full channel but we've got that veggies yeah you're just like the best so let us know what you guys think of this that they do a good enough job youi'm yuri i'm jacob we're going for a drive 2021 jeep grand cherokee l overland without launch control interesting kind of slow kind of torquey off the line though horsepower and torque 290 horsepower 257 pound-feet of torque from a 3.6 liter v6 so what is a jeep grand cherokee l it's the three row version of the jeep grand cherokee and the jeep grand cherokee is also what the track hawk is right yes so both of them exist at the same time but this one is different correct if you're shopping for a jeep grand cherokee in the united states visit the true car link below to get discounted price offers from local dealers so this is all new and they haven't ever had a three-row jeep grand cherokee before so we should probably start with the looks yeah so it does look a little bit different than the regular grand cherokee i feel like it kind of has like an overbite in the front it looks like a big square smile yes with braces yes but i overall think it looks pretty cool um in white it looks a lot more tuner car with a lot more grille but in this burgundy it kind of blends in nicely yeah and it also even looks more luxurious in white i don't really like this color so the headlights they're just lines that go across but they do look pretty good yeah nothing special but i think the regular jeep grand cherokee has actually way better headlights they just look so cool and then we do have an older style jeep grill along the front and in that grille there's actually a little sensor which is very cool that we have that because this thing has night vision and you can use it during the day in your gauge cluster and you pretty much just see exhaust tips lit up yeah all we've been doing is using it like exclusively because you can use it during the day and all you see is the heat signatures from the exhaust and like from breaks and stuff you are a predator it's really cool yeah really distracting though oh yeah but i love it because on other cars i'm pretty sure it's blocked out until it's nighttime like the porsche cayenne i think even the cadillac as well the escalade okay but the dumb thing is so say you're driving with uh with night vision right yep in cruise control yep if you hit the brakes when you see something to avoid it's say it's like a deer then the gauge cluster pops up and it'll get rid of your night vision yeah we have some nitpicks with this gauge cluster cruise control yes side view uh looks pretty good again nothing too special but there is a chrome swoop that you pointed out that looks cool yeah it goes all the way from the top along the back and all the way up to the top on the other side again and i think these wheels actually look really nice as well i'm gonna go with like pretty average it's good for the overland model and what is a continental recommended tire for the jeep grand cherokee l the terrain contact ht okay and then along with the body lines we've got a really nice crisp line that goes all the way across and where our badge is we've got an american flag there too yeah america and then uh the american flag is opposite on the passenger side because you always want it like waving the direction of the wind that you'd be going it's not retreating yeah that's like when we had the police officer uniforms they're like that american flag's on the wrong side and we're like these are stripper costumes it said officer noddy and moving around to the back the taillights are pretty decent nice leds yeah nice little a good line but it's nothing that's like very classic like a lot of the other jeeps and dodges right it's not like the macho man randy savage kind of thing yeah just like solidly good and then we've got real exhaust tips 2021 reel down there at the bottom yes you can see the real tip inside the fake tip and what does it sound like from the outside not very good and what does it sound like from the inside yuri sounds faster than it is yeah does not move very quickly so looks wise would you take this over a durango because they are both technically three rows uh i'd actually have to go with the durango srt hellcat thing whatever it's called yeah it does it does look really good but then they are also coming out with the jeep wagoneer which i think is also a three row wagoneer and the grand wagoneer the grand wagoneer will be the three row yeah there's like a lot of weird overlap but it is cool i guess that they're doing stuff and it is a cool alternative to a minivan which we're also reviewing this week which actually has a whole bunch of similarities so if you want the extra room for everyone but you don't want an suv be sure to watch that review when it comes out yes chrysler pinnacle edition or whatever chrysler pacifica pinnacle edition all-wheel drive so now moving on to the interior let's continue on with the gauges and the radar cruise control stuff okay so the quick nitpicks that we have the gauges are really customizable which is really nice you can have a couple different modes however if you have it into the big bubble mode no matter what you do if you have the smallest warning if your cruise speed changes if you press the gas if you turn on something then it actually moves the bubbles to the side yeah it's pretty annoying like a huge oversight i think in the design it's very distracting as well yeah because they're constantly moving so if you're in full radar cruise and then you tap the brakes it'll it'll change and be like cruise control has been reset and it's like if you're using the night vision you do that then you can't see the night vision you can't see the thing you're trying to avoid right but the radar cruise is the good kind of radar cruise like the alfa romeo and the maserati yeah so you only have to touch your fingers to the steering wheel or even your legs but i did have a little incident where it tried to accelerate me into the truck in front of me and i had to slam the brakes so that was a little sketchy only happened once so like every radar cruise control system keep your eyes on the road yes no matter the manufacturer always always so moving on to this infotainment couple little nitpicks here it is pretty fluid for the most part it is new yes it is uconnect 5 which is the first implementation of it in a jeep vehicle and it's also in the chrysler pacifica minivan right so we do have wireless and wired apple carplay and android auto which is really nice we do have satellite radio however using the actual tuning knob thank you for having a hard button there's some lag between switching between stations and stuff pretty much when you do your first turn it goes to a new screen and it takes forever like guys you don't need to go to that new screen everyone's doing that in satellite radio exactly stop it yeah ford's doing it gm's doing it like everybody's doing that stop so the next issue again a little nitpick is that the massages because yes we have massages so thank you again because that's awesome to turn them on you don't actually press the buttons that you want to be the massage you actually have to press the on button first it's like it's a little user error input that you're like come on or you push the massage button on your door panel and then it just starts massaging with i guess whatever was the last one yeah so that's great that you do have a hard button for it but it is weird that you can't just click it and it'll start doing it yeah and then we have heated and cooled seats heated steering wheel all the things you want in a fairly luxurious vehicle like this but the heated and cooled seats are hard buttons and heated steering wheel which is amazing usually dodges and chryslers and jeeps hide that in the infotainment right so we do have a bunch of hard buttons on this one which is great it is mostly gloss black so i still don't really like that all the covers are gloss black this one doesn't have too many miles on it and it's already all scratched up yeah but this is kind of like aiming to be a luxury version-ish right it for sure is like this interior is actually really nice and before you drive a couple more quick little things we've got a nice 360 camera all the way around however you can't see your back wheels directly like a kia hyundai genesis will i think a lot of other companies are adding that kind of stuff too so i'm a little disappointed with that but we also have a camera on the inside which is your family cam yeah fam cam that's a cool feature so what it's a little camera up there and it lets you see all the seats you can click on that to see which seat you want to highlight and then you can see reverse facing seats and see babies in there as well which i have been using on the pacifica long-term tester that i've been using because it also has pretty much the exact same tech as this and then to get to a lot of those things you can either dig through the infotainment or you can swipe down from the top and then you've got a lot of your favorites that you can set there which i think is really cool considering you have to go through the touchscreen but now it's your turn to drive we could probably talk about all like the nice materials and drive modes and sending it horsepowers and torques which i'm a little disappointed with launch control a lot there's no launch controller i know but it actually break boosted pretty well not bad once you brake boosted but like isn't there supposed to be a v8 model this yes so we do have the v6 there is an optional v8 and without even driving that one i'm going to highly recommend that one because this is a very big vehicle and once you're on the highway it doesn't really have much passing power yeah yeah yeah you need more power better yeah you really do like transmission responds pretty decently but it's just there's not much power to pull you along and speaking about the transmission we do have eight speed auto shifts relatively smoothly it's not very quick because you just downshift downshift downshift downshift like it's not the fastest so this is when you just definitely leave it in auto but we do have kind of funny paddles yeah the steering wheel's got the chrysler buttons behind the steering wheel for your radio stuff which is perfect i love it in all my cars they really prioritize the volume the the the paddles are like the size of a potato chip that's been broken yeah i can see that but like you still hit it every time right so like whatever but you kind of feel like there should be more paddle all right so let's uh send this underpowered behemoth of a vehicle into cliche corner and i mean not the worst no it's not the worst like it's actually pretty good it's you you notice the lack of power but you also notice the suspension comfort because we do have air suspension and it is awesome on this car i really like this air suspension system the amount you can raise and lower it like you can get this thing so high not too low it's not like alpena low but you can get this so high yeah it's nice that it's adjustable we do have a hard button to actually do that you can see it raising and lowering and it does work pretty quickly yeah and this is trail rated yes because this is the overland yes it's the overlapping overload overland overland and it seems like from everyone else's videos and stuff that have already been posted it is very capable off-road plus has the badge the badge means yeah it doesn't have a tent on the roof so it's not really like an overlander and one of the things that stands out about this car is how easy it is to drive with the steering wheel because it's basically effortless like it's not you know effortless in comparison to a rolls-royce but for something like this i would say it's kind of like lincoln luxurious like lincoln and even like um this kind of reminds me of land rover range rover i feel like this is a good competitor for that yeah this didn't we call the other one the grand cherokee the american range rover and the title because that's very close to what this is and what that was maybe i think so and this is a 4x4 yes it is all-wheel drive but we can go into four-wheel drive low as well so you can't actually take this off-road and then we have a bunch of different drive modes sport auto snow sand mud and rock and a hill decent assist yeah so everything you'd really need but i've just left this in auto okay how about materials and stuff inside very good i would say quite top notch especially for stalantis surprisingly nice for a jeep but i know jeeps are nice sometimes now right exactly i think they're they're trying to up market jeep especially with the wagoneer and the grand wagoneer that are coming and you do have a nice head-up display in here too yeah which is really nice and then we have pretty nice steering wheel buttons we do have adaptive cruise and lane keep like we said earlier everything's pretty good in here yeah this wood pattern that's even on the steering wheel too and on the sides is nice the way it all matches up the piano black you mentioned earlier yeah the piano black is my biggest criticism we do have a wireless charger and in terms of comfort these seats are really comfortable like very very comfortable yeah no issues with them at all and the massage is very good and then second row comfort is very good you can move them forward and back and then third row they say you can actually fit a adult comfortably i am an adult and i do fit comfortably back there you gotta have your knees really bent exactly and if you fold down all the seats then we can probably get to the box test one two three four five six seven eight nine 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 get your own box on patreon.com the straight pipes so how about some other tests we've got a medium cup of coffee and it fits just fine i think a small would just fit yeah full pass and visors three two one yes great job perfect and people buying this type of jeep probably care about towing so they can tow up to 6 200 pounds with the v6 if you go up to the v8 you can tow like a thousand pounds more or two thousand pounds and then something we don't talk about very often is sound systems this has a macintosh macintosh mckintosh we're not sure but it's never very good never heard this brand before no but it's a very good system yeah yeah i really like it and the speakers look cool and the font's kind of cool yeah the font is like yeah it's like metallica yeah i think blink what's the one after blink 182 like good charlotte or something oh no none of those yeah i can see that so i feel like that's pretty much everything with this besides going full off-roading which we didn't do today yeah oh peasant blockers in the back yes we do peasant blockers in the back and what about baby seats back there totally fits yeah and i love having captain's chairs for baby backseat stuff it's so much more convenient than benches i think true then you can kind of like move your leg over to the side but then like your partner would be a distance apart from the baby but they can like actually turn over and like look it's it's easier that way right okay you can slide that one seat up all right let's get to the price the grand cherokee l starts at 52 495 canadian and the one that we're driving is 80 265 a lot of money but it is a premium vehicle and definitely feels like it yeah and it competes with the ford expedition the chevy tahoe and the dodge durango which is also a status brand yeah this feels more luxurious than all of those 100 i would agree with that um do you think it's more luxurious than a lincoln i don't think so i feel like i like the interior more where the lincoln may feel a little more like plasticky like all their knobs are like chrome but they're like i think it all looks nicer and i also feel like it also drove better and it also had more power in the lincoln yeah because that was the twin turbo the ecoboost but then you get in there and you can't adjust your seat easily and then this is just like simple yeah the perfect position because that's like kind of a nightmare sometimes yeah you're right and if you're shopping for a new jeep grand cherokee and you live in the united states click the true car link below there's a discount when using the stray pipes link you can also shop for a used jeep grand cherokee using truecar and if you live in canada there's a car help canada link below so overall i think they did a really good job with this brand new vehicle and it slots in well with its competition yeah it's cool to see a luxury version of a jeep especially when there's just like straight-up wrangler versions and jeeps and stuff exactly we just have a couple little nitpicks on the interior and like that's it this is a really good car yeah i didn't full channel but we've got that veggies yeah you're just like the best so let us know what you guys think of this that they do a good enough job you\n"