The 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 was just launched to the press this week (read our first drive here) and already someone's managed to trick the computer into letting things like this happen.
In Track mode, the Jeep sends some 65 percent of its power to the rear wheels and, at certain times, 100 percent to just one rear wheel. That means there are computers are work thinking about power and when there are computers involved, there are hackers involved.
Cue Hot Rod Mag Live who snagged this footage from the launch of a 2012 SRT8 with "some very special software loaded into the ECU."
This is more of a must have for the Jeep than a skip shift eliminator is for every car with skip shift.
lostboyz says:
10:51 AM, 07/15/11
Lets also remember those are pirelli scorpion 295 wide tires, which makes it better to me.
inlinesix says:
11:25 AM, 07/15/11
Does burnouts well... but I still dont want to drive one. It does look 10x better than the last one.
93aero says:
11:29 AM, 07/15/11
awesome.
firstwagon says:
10:11 PM, 07/15/11
It is a cool truck but I don't see the purpose of gettting it to do burnouts.
The price of a Hemi Grand Cherokee is far beyond that of the average 16 year old.
csubowtie says:
01:19 PM, 07/16/11
Yup, mandatory software upgrade. It always kinda ruins the awesome of a car/truck like that when you can't do a burnout. Sure AWD is nice and fast, but it's hard to impress girls with a fast 0-60.