Yahoo Autos 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee Safety and Driver Assistance
It may have missed the best crash-test ratings by a wide margin, but the Grand Cherokee still offers a comprehensive list of passive- and active-safety features. We struggled to install our rear-facing infant seat, so buyers with children should plan to test their own seat in the Jeep before buying.
What’s New for 2018?
Jeep has made no changes to the body or structure of the Grand Cherokee for 2018, but what has changed is IIHS’s testing regimen. The agency has introduced a new passenger’s-side small-overlap crash test that has proven problematic for a number of consumer vehicles, including the Grand Cherokee, which earned a score of Poor.
2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Crash Test Results
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the nonprofit, independent Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) evaluate vehicles for crashworthiness in the United States. NHTSA assigns cars an overall rating out of five stars. IIHS uses a different set of tests, grades cars on a scale of Good to Poor, and awards the vehicles that perform best across its tests with Top Safety Pick or Top Safety Pick+ honors, the latter of which requires that the subject’s automated forward-collision-braking system performs well.
Read more about how NHTSA and the IIHS crash-test cars here.
The Grand Cherokee earned four stars from NHTSA, and it performed adequately in IIHS’s testing as well, earning a score of Good in every category except the difficult small-overlap crash tests. As a result, it missed out on the Top Safety Pick honor.
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Test Results
2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee RWD
2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee AWD
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Test Results
2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee
Airbags, Child Seats, and Spare Tire Location
Installing a child seat in the rear of the Grand Cherokee is a struggle. The LATCH anchor points are aggravatingly buried between the cushions, and we barely got the base buckles to attach. The rear doors open wide, and there’s enough room for a rear-facing infant seat without having to sacrifice too much front-seat comfort, although a tall driver will be cramped.
Vehicle Tested: 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee Limited
Active Safety Features
Jeep offers a host of active safety features for an additional layer of protection in the Grand Cherokee. The Jeep Active Safety package is optional on Limited, Trailhawk, and Overland models. It includes adaptive cruise control with full speed range, automated emergency braking, forward-collision warning, lane-departure warning with lane-keeping assist, and parallel- and perpendicular-parking assist. Buyers of the top-dog Summit receive all of this as standard equipment.
Backup Camera
2018 Grand Cherokee In-Depth
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