Jeep Grand Cherokee diesel review, test drive

And now, onto the faults. The single biggest complaint we have is with the interiors – sure, the top half of the dashboard is covered in soft-touch materials and there’s a nice slab of black coloured wood that runs the breadth of the dash, but it’s the lower half that’s a bit off sync. It’s made up of well-finished, but hard plastic that simply doesn’t feel of as high quality as you would expect in a luxury car. Then there’s the touchscreen, which isn’t as slick as, say, BMW’s iDrive or Audi’s MMI systems, and even the seven-inch screen between the dials has some annoyingly downmarket fonts and even cheap-looking overlapping text! The controls are also not the most intuitive – Jeep has gone for a single ‘super stalk’ like Mercedes, with wiper, headlight and indicator controls on it.