JEEP CHEROKEE 2001

Jeep's 'XJ' Cherokee, built between 1984 and 2001, was one of America's great automotive designs: a chisel-edged slab of practicality that arguably set the template for every SUV that followed.

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A shape as recognisable, as genre defining, as the 911 or Mini.

So when it came time, in the early Noughties, to replace the XJ, obviously Chrysler - fresh from tying the knot with sultry European paramour Mercedes - decided to do the sensible thing, and retain that iconic shape while overhauling the Cherokee's underpinnings.