Everybody has had a nap run a little past its intended length. In the case of the Jeep Cherokee, this compact SUV ended up smashing the snooze button a couple of times and skipped the 2024 and '25 ...

WESTLAKE VILLAGE, CA—Welcome back, Jeep. Jeep people themselves won’t deny it: it was a bad move having no competitor in the crucial family SUV segment. The previous Cherokee disappeared a few years ...

The Jeep Cherokee has always been able to move with the times. The 1970s “SJ” Cherokee was a swaggering full-size 4×4 that would have worn a mustache if it could. In 1984, the boxy “XJ” Cherokee ...

Jeep returns the storied Cherokee name to the lineup for 2026 with a fully redesigned compact SUV featuring the brand’s first full-time all-wheel-drive hybrid powertrain as standard. Available in four ...

Tom started his career as a daily newspaper reporter in metro Detroit and after a decade changed course to cover cars, spending the next 25 years at Wards Automotive doing test drives, technology and ...

When someone mentions the Jeep Cherokee, car people bring up the XJ. It’s inevitable. The XJ wasn’t the first-generation Cherokee; that honor belongs to the old-school SJ, but it became the gold ...

Small unibody SUVs didn't take off until Jeep's beloved XJ Cherokee went on sale in 1984 and quickly earned a place in millions of driveways across the country. Recent Cherokees haven't made quite the ...

In an industry as tumultuous as the car business, sticking around can be a real challenge. Nameplates die and are reborn, often without obvious links with the model from which they originally came.

Brett T. Evans has more than a decade of experience driving, writing about, and evaluating automobiles. His early career comprised writing about pre- and post-war classic cars, as well as late-model ...