Canadians Take Down a Swimming Pool with a Jeep Cherokee

We suppose there are many professional ways to flatten an outdoor, above ground swimming pool, but where's the fun in that?

YouTube author Kenny Mclean·and his friends / family came up with a novel idea to tear up their pool in southern Ontario, Canada, using a battered Jeep Cherokee SUV as a demolition tool.

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New 2014 Jeep Cherokee Pricing Announced, Starts from $22,995*

Whether it's good for Jeep that people are still talking about the looks of the new generation of the Cherokee four months after the first pictures of the SUV surfaced online, is still up in the air, but we'll soon find out what it will translate in sales as the Detroit carmaker has just released pricing.

The 2014 Cherokee will arrive in dealer lots during the third quarter of the year (Jeep has yet to announce a precise date) with prices kicking off at $22,995 for the base, four-cylinder front-wheel drive Sport 4x2 and rising to $29,995 for the all-wheel drive Limited 4x4 with an inline-four. Both prices exclude a (*) $995 destination.

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Jeep Reintroduces Patriot Freedom Edition Model for Memorial Day

You probably noticed that we were in cruising mode on Monday due to the celebration of Memorial Day, a day when the U.S. remembers its soldiers that died on the battlefields.

Since Jeep is a brand that shares a special connection with the U.S. Army, the carmaker decided to honor Memorial Day by announcing the reintroduction of a special 2014 Jeep Patriot Freedom Edition.

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U Spy: What's Jeep Doing with a Fully Camouflaged 2014 Cherokee in Hollywood?

Given Carscoops' readers sentiments on the design of the new generation 2014 Jeep Cherokee, as strongly expressed in the comments sections our inaugural posts about the car here and here, it's not hard to imagine what some of the answers may be to the question posed in our title.

But seriously now, if you were to block the images of the Cherokee from your thoughts, what do you think Jeep is doing with this prototype in full camouflage, which was nabbed this week by Carscoops' reader Stephen D. as he was driving to his work in Hollywood, California?

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2014 Jeep Cherokee's Production Launch Delayed for a Month

Chrysler said that the production launch of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee has been delayed for about one month, due to “a wide range of issues.” However, Chrysler assured dealers they will have sufficient inventory of the SUV by fall.

“We did start with an initial scheduled plan of the third week in May, and now we are into mid-June,” said Mark Chernoby, Chrysler’s senior vice president of engineering, according a Detroit Free Press report. “That is just due to a wide range of issues.” He added that these issues are common when launching an all-new car or truck and that the automaker is ironing them out.

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Jeep Baptizes New Cherokee as the "Zi You Guang" in China

China will be the first market outside of the United States to get its first view of the new and rather controversial looking, 2014 Jeep Cherokee, which will make its international debut at the 2013 Shanghai Auto Show on April 20.

While the looks will remain the same, Jeep's local arm decided to name the SUV the "Zi You Guang", which, at least according to CarNewsChina, loosely translates to "Liberty Light", so in some ways, the new Cherokee keeps the name of its predecessor (called Liberty in North America).

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My Selection of the Most Promising Crop of Current Models from Detroit's Big Three

The US automotive industry used to represent so much more than just the Big Three, which are no longer automakers in the romantic sense, but multinational corporations that make cars. In my view, the American automotive industry sector was at its peak in the 1930s, and then it slowly faded into a mentality of bigger is better in the 1970s. By the year 2008, the remaining three major forces admitted defeat and it was only thanks to Obama's controversial bailout scheme that they are still here today.

Now, while in the 1990s, and even up until 2008, many American cars were for the most part mediocre when compared to the standard set by the Japanese and Europeans, they now seem to be making a worthy comeback, with models which would appeal to any potential car buyer in the world as genuinely enticing propositions. However, don't mistake this for a buying guide, because it's not – it is my selection of promising American cars.

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Jeep Says All-New 2014 Cherokee Sets New Standards [100 Photos & Videos]

Today, we finally got our hands on official information for the 2014 Jeep Cherokee, which says that their latest offering "raises the bar with legendary benchmark capability, world-class on-road dynamics, fuel economy up to 31 mpg, revolutionary Jeep design with world-class craftsmanship inside and out, and an array of advanced safety and technology features."

We like the air of optimism with which Jeep officially debuts their new crossover, and after reading the bits further down in the press release, we began to suspect that there might be substance behind the bold claims.

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Feast your Eyes on 65 Photos of the 2014 Jeep Cherokee [Updated Gallery]

We might not have a lot of official information on the brand-new, and heavily panned by many readers for its odd-looks, 2014 Jeep Cherokee, but we can now further enlighten you on its exterior styling thanks to a raft of pictures that were released online today, and which you can check out, and, of course, comment on, right after the break. Read more »

Jeep Hides 2014 Cherokee's Quirky Face in New POV Video

Jeep is saying that the all-new 2014Cherokee is the "most capable mid-size SUV" (they fail to mention, in which areas, though).

Keen to prove that the brand is heading in the right direction, and keeping true to its core attribute of excellent off-road ability, they have now released a short video, which shows the awkwardly-styled SUV negotiating some pretty serious terrain – a place a where a rock-crawler would be much more at home.

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2014 Jeep Cherokee Officially Revealed, Let the Face Naming Begin…

After someone sneaked out a few pictures of the new 2014 Cherokee from Jeep's factory and unloaded them earlier today on Jalopnik, Jeep thought that it might be a good idea to release a shinier set of professionally edited and produced images to show us its new mid-size SUV at its best.

If anything else, the new 2014 Cherokee that replaces the Liberty in North America and its namesake in other parts of the world, needs to look its best with that - how shall we put it delicately, awkward looking face, which we don't know if it reminds us more of a modern-day Pontiac Aztec or a catfish with some serious indigestion problems...

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