Jeep Cherokee

The Jeep Cherokee is a compact SUV and eventually into its current incarnation as a crossover SUV. The vehicle is named after the Cherokee tribe of Native Americans. The Cherokee was a redesigned and a reintroduction of a two-door body style Jeep Wagoneer. The Cherokee appealed to a younger market than the Wagoneer, which was regarded more as a family SUV. The Cherokee was marketed as the "sporty" two-door variant of Jeep's station wagon.

The third generation Cherokee was priced between the Wrangler and Grand Cherokee. It was the first Jeep vehicle to use rack and pinion steering. It was the first Jeep to use the two then-new PowerTech engines; the 150 horsepower (110 kW) 2.4 L straight-4, and the 210 horsepower (160 kW) 3.7 L V6.

The Cherokee is the first Jeep vehicle to be built on the Fiat Compact/Compact U.S. Wide platform, co-developed by Chrysler and Fiat. The Cherokee has a highway fuel economy rating of 31 miles per U.S. gallon. the fifth-generation Cherokee would become such a sales success that FCA discontinued the slow-selling Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 in order to increase production capacity for the Cherokee to meet demand.