I’ve seen the new 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokees(pre-production) running around town and they look really nice.

According to Jalopnik:

The exterior body of the new Grand Cherokee gets an all-new sculpted body that helps give the new Grand Cherokee an athletic profile despite the increase in size and weight. It looks good in photos. In person it looks, and most importantly, feels, fantastic.

The interior’s all-new too. And by all-new, we mean it looks like what we expect a luxury SUV to look like. That’s good, because it’ll need it to go up against competitors like the new Cadillac SRX and new Lexus RX. It may actually succeed, mostly because it’s not just about the looks, there’s also engineering changes that come from listening to current-generation owners — things like more than 4″ of extra rear-seat knee and leg room (38.6″) compared to the previous model allowing it to get reclining second-row seats.

My San Antonio.com:

The 2011 model continues with a unibody arrangement, but it’s completely new inside and out, using the chassis of the redesigned M-class, which moved to the unibody format with the introduction of the second generation for 2006.

Under the hood, the base engine is Chrysler’s all-new, 290-horsepower, 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6, which provides an 11 percent increase in fuel economy over the 2010 model’s 210-horsepower, 3.7-liter V-6. The engine has 260 foot-pounds of torque.

EPA ratings are 16 mpg city/23 highway for the two-wheel-drive V-6 models and 16/22 with four-wheel drive. That gives the two-wheel drive model a range of more than 500 miles on a tank of gasoline.

Also available is a 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 with 360 horsepower and 390 foot-pounds of torque, which will be the choice for those with big trailers to pull. Mileage ratings are 14/20 (2WD) and 13/19 (4WD).

There are more than 45 standard safety and security features on the new model, Chrysler says, including electronic stability control with traction control and roll mitigation, active head restraints, full-length side-curtain air bags for both rows of seats, front seat-mounted side air bags, hill-start assist and trailer-sway control.

Optional will be a blind-spot/rear cross-path detection system and adaptive cruise control with forward collision warning, a system usually reserved for luxury vehicles.

Inside Line really likes the vehicle interior:

The real measure of success for the interior is its apparent quality and this is the hard part. So far, we’re very encouraged by what we see. No more big, hard sheets of dark-gray plastic. In this upside-down world in which we live, it is from the Ram pickup truck that the interior feel comes. The pickup, with which we’ve been very impressed, was the first of the Chrysler brood to be blessed with a nicer interior getup. The combination of wood, soft-touch plastics, a stitched dash cap, contrasting piping on the leather seats and the steering wheel is a sight far better than the old truck. Or at least they are on the well-equipped versions that Jeep has made available thus far. The leather instrument panel and door trim come with the top-of-the-line Overland package, a model that starts at $39,495 in two-wheel-drive guise.

Demand for the 2011 Grand Cherokee is strong according to the DetNews