New 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit – Video

 

The interior is the most important part of any luxury vehicle, and Jeep’s done the Grand Cherokee Summit right. Just about every surface in the Grand Cherokee Summit’s interior is covered in high-quality Nappa leather. Buyers can go further, though, with the optional $4,995 Signature Leather-Wrapped Interior package. It adds gorgeous quilted leather to the door panels and seats, and it wraps both the dashboard and center console in thick, soft leather.

Other than the leather, the Summit also gets a suede headliner, acoustic glass on every window but the tailgate, soft carpets, and a 19-speaker, three-subwoofer Harman Kardon audio system.

Revised for the 2017 model year to make more torque down low, the V-6 is good for 295 hp and 260 lb-ft of torque and returns 18/25/21 mpg city/highway/combined on the EPA cycle when equipped with four-wheel drive.

(Rear-drive is standard on the Grand Cherokee Summit, but these are Jeeps, so I’ll ignore those.)

Jeep offers up two optional engines on the Summit. For $3,795 the beastly 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 is available. It produces a healthy 360 ponies and 390 lb-ft of torque while returning an appropriate 14/22/17 mpg. For $5,000, buyers can opt for the 3.0-liter EcoDiesel V-6. This efficient diesel powerplant makes 240 hp and 420 lb-ft of torque while netting 21/28/24 mpg.