The Jeep Cherokee will return to US showrooms – however not Australian ones – after the model confirmed manufacturing of a brand new technology will start in late 2025.
Jeep additionally confirmed the five-seat Cherokee SUV – a rival to the Toyota RAV4, Mazda CX-5 and Get Sportage – will probably be supplied with a hybrid powertrain for the primary time.
In a press release, Jeep stated it can start manufacturing the brand new Cherokee – one in all its oldest nameplates – in late 2025 however didn’t share any additional particulars on the car, resembling specification or pricing.
It did, nevertheless, launch a few photographs and a brief video displaying the Cherokee is returning to a boxier silhouette – if one not fairly as upright as the enduring XJ sequence that Jeep constructed from 1983 to 2001.
“It is a historic 12 months for the Jeep model, with extra product, innovation, selection and normal content material for patrons than ever earlier than,” stated Jeep CEO Bob Broderdorf.
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“The all-new Jeep Cherokee will boast aggressive pricing that strikes on the core of the biggest car phase and sits completely between Jeep Compass and Jeep Grand Cherokee to bolster our successful mainstream lineup.”
Jeep Australia instructed CarExpert the brand new Cherokee isn’t deliberate for Australian showrooms, after the native arm of Stellantis – proprietor of the Jeep model – additionally dominated out the return of the bigger Jeep Grand Cherokee.
The Grand Cherokee was axed in March 2025 after a big gross sales droop.
It means Jeep will proceed to lack a product in Australia’s largest gross sales phase: the mid-size SUV phase.
This accounted for nearly 1 / 4 of recent automotive gross sales final 12 months, with 287,637 of the entire 1,237,287 whole new automobiles bought.
As an alternative, the Jeep Compass (under) – due in Australia in 2026 with electrical and hybrid powertrain decisions – will take up the function beforehand performed by Cherokee within the native lineup.
The earlier technology KL Jeep Cherokee was bought in Australia between 2014 and 2022 with four- and six-cylinder petrol engines, earlier than manufacturing ended globally in February 2023.
With styling paying homage to the XJ Cherokee – bought in Australia between 1996 and 2001 – the brand new technology is predicted to make use of the STLA Giant modular platform.
The STLA platform is designed for electrification and underpins the Jeep Wagoneer S and Recon electrical SUVs each due in Australia in 2026.
It means the Cherokee is ready to be bigger than earlier than, with the platform enabling a size of as much as 5126mm. For context, the KL Cherokee measured 4651mm lengthy.
It is going to doubtless be shorter, nevertheless, than the 4915mm-long two-row Grand Cherokee axed from the Australian lineup in March 2025.
Jeep gross sales fell 9 per cent within the US in 2024 – and a staggering 48.7 per cent in Australia – whereas mum or dad firm Stellantis suffered a 15 per cent world gross sales decline and big 70 per cent fall in earnings year-on-year.
The automaker can also be engaged on a brand new electrical Renegade – a small SUV final bought in Australia in 2020 – due in US showrooms in 2027.
The present Renegade is Jeep’s entry-level SUV within the US, the place the pint-sized Jeep Avenger already in Europe and Australian showrooms isn’t at the moment supplied.
The Avenger is obtainable right here solely with electrical energy, however mild-hybrid energy is predicted to be launched Down Underneath.
