Jeep Cherokee

The Jeep Cherokee is one of 51 Jeep models in the MotorJury library, the catalogue that sets out to hold every car ever made — production, prototype and concept alike. The record places its introduction in 1974. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.

The era it was born into

To read the Jeep Cherokee properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 1970s were the decade the oil crises rewired the industry — emissions rules, safety bumpers and fuel economy suddenly mattered as much as horsepower, and Japanese manufacturers went global. 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 Lamborghini Lamborghini Countach, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Golf, the Volkswagen Volkswagen Scirocco — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.

The numbers, read closely

On paper, the Jeep Cherokee reads like this: the record lists its engine as 258 CID AMC AMC Straight-6 engine / I6 / 360 CID AMC AMC V8 engine / V8 2-barrel / 360 CID AMC V8 4-barrel / 401 CID AMC V8 4-barrel; kerb weight is recorded at 4514 lb; drive goes through 4-speed Manual transmission / manual / 3-speed Automatic transmission / automatic; 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.

Its place in the Jeep story

Within Jeep's own catalogue the Jeep Cherokee sits alongside the Jeep Wrangler (JK), the Jeep Wrangler (TJ), the Jeep Gladiator (2005), the Jeep Wrangler (JL). It was succeeded by the Jeep Cherokee (XJ) / Jeep Grand Cherokee (ZJ). Design is credited to Brooks Stevens. Assembly is recorded at United States: Toledo, Ohio (Toledo Complex) / Canada: Brampton, Ontario (Brampton Assembly Plant) / Argentina: Córdoba Province, Argentina / Córdoba (Industrias Kaiser Argentina /.

How this catalogue works

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.

From catalogue to ownership

What this page cannot yet tell you is what the Jeep Cherokee costs to live with — that is a different dataset. MotorJury's ownership verdicts are computed from federal complaint and recall records plus EPA economy data, published per model year as the nightly ingest reaches each car. If this model was sold in the United States, its years will surface in the ownership database; browse it live or price any car yourself with the true-cost calculator.