Recently when asked about the possibility of a Hellcat powered RAM truck, CEO Bob Hegbloom offered up little more than a ?No.? He did finish up with a simple statement, ?there are other areas of Ram Ram?s business with a bigger opportunity,? and opened the door for much greater things. We may not get a Hellcat Ram, but what about another Chrysler product; specifically the Jeep Grand Cherokee? This is what we think a Jeep Grand Cherokee Hellcat would look like. We also have some solid evidence that it is actually coming.
For starters, the Grand Cherokee is no stranger to high-performance variants with the SRT-8 model, so moving the range up-market should be an easy move. Second, with machines like the upcoming Range Rover Sport SVR coming soon, Jeep could be looking to head-off the competition before it even arrives. Of course, the most damning piece of evidence we have that this car is coming is a recent trademark from the company for the name ?Trackhawk.? If you are familiar with Jeep?s naming schemes, ?Trailhawk? is a name used for hardcore off-road models of the Cherokee and Grand Cherokee. Now it?s not a stretch to see Jeep use the ?Trackhawk? name for an ultra-high-performance variant.
With that in mind we had our trusty in-house render artist whip up some great shots of what this new Jeep might look like. Hit the jump to see the new machine and read what we think the changes will be if this thing gets produced.
Click past the jump to read more about the Jeep SRT Hellcat.
Jeep SRT Hellcat originally appeared on topspeed.com on Monday, 17 November 2014 08:00 EST.
Source: http://feeds.topspeed.com/~r/topspeed/~3/xGUo6fkhSM4/2016-jeep-srt-hellcat-ar166284.html
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