Just got home from spending a few hours at Yark in Toledo, Ohio test driving a Renegade Trailhawk.
I will have a truckload of photo and video along with some detailed thoughts tomorrow, but I wanted to get this thread rolling to let people know the car is out there.
To give you a basic taste, it's summed up in one word: lovely.
Extremely easy to see out of, plenty of room for myself at 6' 2" (1.87 metres for Canucks here) and passengers in the rear. Acceleration from the 2.4 is VERY good and I am happy to report NO KINKS with the 9-Speed that have plagued our Cherokee (KL) brothers.
This thing is zippy. Toledo is a freaking nightmare to drive around with construction and more traffic than the roads can handle, but the Renegade made it such a freaking blast to zip around. I've never had this much fun driving a vehicle.
Gas mileage is okay. The sample vehicle I used had a mere 13 miles on the clock, and I averaged about 23 MPG zooming up and down with mixed city/fwy driving, although keep in mind this engine is literally new out of the factory.
The cars were... dirty, to say the least. Not as bad as I thought, but still dirty. According to window stickers, they're entering the United States via Los Angeles.
I found the headrest to be hard as a rock, my sample vehicle had cloth seats. Not sure if this is because the foam is new, or the cloth seats are different, or what. But this is IMO.
Bootup animation:
https://vimeo.com/122388880
More soon!
