A BIG LUXURY 8-SEATER WITH THE OFF-ROAD ABILITIES OF A JEEP

This is the biggest and most luxurious model in the Jeep range, but you will find it difficult to find the Jeep badge. Grand Wagoneer, a name revived from the brand’s past, is its own brand.

It’s spacious three-row cabin seats up to eight, although there’s an option of second-row ‘captain’s chairs’ which reduces seating to seven. There is lots of cargo space, especially when the third row is folded down.

The interior is covered extensively by screens, with a central 10.1-inch infotainment display and a 10.3-inch digital gauge display offering readouts for the driver. Even the front-seat passenger has their own display with an optional 10.3-inch screen integrated into the dashboard to provide navigation and entertainment functions.

There’s lots of luxury - leather upholstery, 12-way power-adjustable front seats, ambient interior lighting, a three-zone automatic climate control, and an excellent 19-speaker stereo system developed with high-end audio equipment specialist McIntosh.

Power comes from a new Hurricane 3.0-liter twin-turbocharged six-cylinder with 420 hp and 468 lb.-ft. of torque. It may be smaller, but there’s plenty of power and much better gas fuel economy than the older V8 it replaces.

The Grand Wagoneer offers a smooth, quiet ride with all the trappings of a luxury vehicle that happens to have genuine off-road capabilities. This makes it stand out among its rivals such as the Cadillac Escalade, Ford Expedition, Nissan Armada, and GMC Yukon - all giant and sometimes luxurious SUVs, but which lack the offroad capability of the Wagoneer.

Standard safety equipment includes blind spot warning with rear crosstraffic alert, forward collision warning with automatic emergency braking, front and rear parking obstruction warning and hill assist, adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping assistance, intersection collision assist, active parking assistance, automatic high beams, drowsy driver detection and traffic sign recognition.

The Grand Wagoneer is the most offroad capable SUV of its size, and looks and feels every bit a luxury vehicle.

To arrange a test drive in Bahrain contact www.jeep-bahrain.com