Friday’s are a special day. Whether you rejoice in a “jeans” casual Friday or celebrate that today is a payday, we are all ecstatic that the end of the work week has arrived. In the spirit of such a day, we want to offer you the best that Leith Cars has to offer. That is why here on the Leith Car’s blog, we scour the Leith dealership blogs for the one that has a certain arresting intangible.
Today, we highlight Leith Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Aberdeen. On Tuesday, January 7th, 2014, they wrote about a rather unique driving test. We could try to explain it, but they did it best. Enjoy!
Well, that’s one way to test a car.
Almost two years ago, a Swedish car magazine called Teknikens Varld (we know) decided that it was going to make a man out of the Jeep Grand Cherokee. They decided to do this via a series of driving tests culminating in the moose test, which was meant to simulate the adrenaline rush/driving challenge of a late-night moose scurrying out from behind a billboard and into your driving lane.
Sadly, the Cherokee did not pass the Swedes test, and sadder still, they filmed the whole thing and uploaded it to YouTube where millions of people have watched it. It does not appear that an actual moose was used.
Why a moose instead of, I don’t know, a deer? Probably because moose are more common in Sweden, and because their potentially 1,000 lbs. body weight is more incentive to swerve rather than plow through (a 250 lb. deer) as you’re advised to do in the U.S. Also likely is the perverse joy of being able to type moose test.
In any case, Jeep was none too pleased with the unfavorable rating, and for two years the company has been locked inside their laboratory, refusing to come out until they devise a car capable of pleasing the Swedes and their moose (Moosi? Mooses? Meese?).
Now at long last the moose are about to eat crow as Teknikens Varld has tested the 2014 Jeep Cherokee and found the Cherokee unabashedly moose-ready. In fact, the publication found that only at 44.1 mph did the Jeep lose control under the onslaught of moose flung from every which way.
If that isn’t a rite of passage for an Ohio-made vehicle that just went on sale in China, we don’t know what is.
Stop by Leith Chrysler Dodge Jeep RAM Aberdeen to experience the stability and anti-roll capabilities of a car that can avoid a moose at 40 mph.