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This is the catalogue record of the Jeep Cherokee (XJ), one of 51 models Jeep has placed in the historical record and one of more than seventeen thousand cars the MotorJury library tracks. The record places its introduction in 1983. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1980s were the decade of turbocharging, electronic fuel injection and the first mass digital engine management — Group B rallying and hot hatches defined its performance culture. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Toyota Toyota 4Runner, the Fiat Fiat Uno, the Peugeot Peugeot 205 — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol engine / gasoline: / 150 cuin AMC Straight-4 engine / AMC I4 / 173 cuin GM 60-Degree V6 engine#LR2 / GM LR2 V6 engine / V6 / 242 cuin AMC Straight 6 engine#4.0 / AMC/PowerTe; kerb weight is recorded at 3357 lb (approx.) / 1375 - (Jeep 2500/2700) / 1610 kg (BAW Qishi); drive goes through 4-speed Aisin AX-4 manual / 5-speed Aisin AX-5 manual / 5-speed Peugeot BA-10/5 manual / 5-speed Aisin Aisin AX15 transmission / AX-15 manual / 5-speed New Venture Gear / NVG New V; the layout is Front-engine, rear-wheel drive / Four-wheel drive. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Jeep's own catalogue the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) sits alongside the Jeep Wrangler (JK), the Jeep Wrangler (TJ), the Jeep Gladiator (2005), the Jeep Wrangler (JL). The record names the Jeep Cherokee (SJ) (Cherokee) / Jeep Wagoneer (SJ) (Wagoneer) as its predecessor and the Jeep Liberty (KJ) (Cherokee) / Jeep Grand Cherokee (ZJ) / Jeep Grand Wagoneer Limited (ZJ) (Wagoneer Limited) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Dick Teague. Assembly is recorded at United States: Toledo, Ohio (Toledo Complex) / China: Beijing (Beijing Jeep and BAW), Shijiazhuang (Shuanghuan Auto) / Venezuela: Valencia, Carabobo / Valencia / Argentina: Ferreyr.
This library is generated, verified and rebuilt from the open record on every deploy. The catalogue skeleton comes from Wikidata, specifications from Wikipedia's infoboxes under CC BY-SA, photography from Wikimedia Commons under each file's own licence, and the ownership data from United States federal safety records. Nothing is written by hand and nothing is invented: every fact on this page traces to a public source, and every page is rebuilt nightly as those sources improve. Errors in the source record will appear here too — and disappear the night the source is corrected.
The catalogue records what the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) was; the ownership database records what it is like to own. MotorJury computes a verdict for every model year the United States federal record covers — complaints, recalls, real economy — refreshed nightly, with no opinions involved. If this car reached the American market, its verdicts are in there.
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