David Silecchia, who has owned three Cherokee XJs from 1988, 1998 and 2000, thinks the 2014 Cherokee will sell, but not to rock-climbing adventurers like him.

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All V8-powered XJs come with rear-wheel drive.

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Once at the motor sports complex, journalists took turns testing all-wheel-drive XJs and smaller XFs, which also get the system as an option for 2013, by flinging them through various obstacle courses, every one of which was covered in several inches of snow with thick ice underneath.

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