The video shows a red-colored, older generation Jeep entering the car wash and then a couple coming out of the SUV.
What happens next, is well, let's just say the point where it gets twisted in a way you would have never expected.
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The driver of the Jeep, Shena Hardin, appeared in Cleveland Municipal court on Monday where Judge Pinkey S. Carr not only suspended her license for 30 days and ordered her to pay $250 in court costs, but she is also making her wear a sign that says, "Only an idiot drives on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus"!
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What did she do? Well, how about standing right in front of a big foot Jeep Wrangler during a rock climbing competition and falling down multiple times, yet continuing to hold on to her camera instead of trying to get out of harm's way?
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After seeing the same thing happening over and over again, a Cleveland Metropolitan School District (CMSD) bus driver decided to take matters in his own hands by calling the police to capture the woman red handed.
Sure enough, Hardin appeared with her silver-colored Jeep Compass and jumped on the sidewalk to go around the bus. Only this time, a patrol car was waiting for her just around the corner…
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The two new models are one and the same with the difference being that the Alpine is dressed in a "bright white" finish for the body while the Vapor in a "brilliant black" color.
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Following a second test with a different Grand Cherokee that produced similar results, the Swedish magazine summoned a group of Chrysler engineers who insisted that the car be loaded with 470kg (1,037 lbs) or 132kg (291 lbs) less than Jeep/Chrysler's own registered maximum payload of 602kg (1,327 lbs).
The magazine pointed out that with a driver and four adult passengers, there's "hardly any margin for luggage" if they adhered to Jeep's 470kg payload demand but agreed to do the test nevertheless.
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In its first response, the Detroit carmaker said its engineers tried to "reproduce the wheel-lift in a properly loaded vehicle" without success.
Chrysler pointed out that neither Teknikens Värld was able to recreate the original event in a subsequent evaluation of three vehicles performing 11 runs, which were conducted by the magazine on July 8 in Sweden and witnessed by the automaker's engineers.
According to Chrysler, "The uncharacteristic result was obtained using a vehicle loaded beyond its weight specifications."
Today, Teknikens Värld notified us about its latest posting that rebukes Chrysler's claims saying that the aforementioned moose test with the Jeep Grand Cherokee was conducted according to strict parameters that were followed "to the smallest detail".
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As it does with most new cars launched in Sweden, Teknikens Värld subjected the latest Grand Cherokee (launched in the country last year) to the moose test, which is a high-speed steering maneuver designed to simulate the driver's efforts to evade an obstacle that suddenly appears on the road - such as a moose, hence the name of the test.
The magazine found that in its base configuration for the Swedish market, and despite being fitted with an anti-rollover system, the new Jeep Grand Cherokee "shows potentially fatal rollover tendencies at low speed in our avoidance maneuver test".
"Such behavior is totally unacceptable in 2012," said Teknikens Värld's Linus Pröjtz.
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Cherokee. The video shows the Jeep model filled with water right up to the door handles and stuck in the mud.
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In the first video we have a Porsche 911 Turbo by Switzer rated at 950hp racing against a Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8 with a 1,100hp 7.2-liter supercharged V8, a Volkswagen Touareg TDI V10 (or W12) with 1,200-horses under its hood and another Grand Cherokee SRT-8, this time with a twin-turbocharged 7.2-lit V8 producing 1,200hp.
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See how the driver of this black Jeep Grand Cherokee reacted when the person in the vehicle with the camcorder did not want him to merge into his lane in the short clip that follows right past the break.
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The Altitude model is based on the 2012 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara adding a raft of styling parts.
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Judging by viewer comments, the nostalgic Might FC and J-12 pickup trucks are the star attractions of the bunch.
We'll probably have more on the Jeep models once the safari kicks off this weekend, but for now, you can get a glimpse of the concepts on film and hear what Jeep boss Mike Manley and Mopar president and CEO Pietro Gorlier have to say about the vehicles in the company's official video, which you'll find directly after the jump.
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The Grand Cherokee SRT-8 itself featured a supercharged version of the regular model's Hemi V8 pushing down 700-horsepower.
Its rivals were a BMW X6M tuned by Hamann with 670-ponies, a Porsche Cayenne Turbo-based Gemballa GT600 with 600-horses lurking under its hood, a stock Ford Mustang GT500 rated at 612-horsepower and a tuned Porsche 911 Turbo with 580-horses.
To see how the fights went down, hop past the break to watch the video.
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But the notion of slowing down wasn't in the agenda of a Gilda Ramos who wanted to fill up her Jeep Compass at a Miami Beach gas station on Tuesday.
Surveillance video captured the woman smashing her Jeep into the pump that quickly erupted into flames.
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In this match, we see the previous generation Grand Cherokee SRT-8 that's powered by a Stroker 7.2-liter supercharged V8 engine competing against a completely stock Audi R8 V10 5.2 with 525-horses, a Switzer-prepped Nissan GT-R R850 with 850-ponies and a BMW X6M by Evotech with 620-horsepower.
Race through the break to watch the one mile runs.
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The two vehicles tested by the European body are the new 2012 Honda Civic 5-door hatchback and the redesigned Jeep Compass crossover.
Starting with the good news, Honda's compact model was awarded the maximum five star rating, achieving high scores in all areas of assessment and putting it on a par with the top models in its category.
Euro NCAP said that the passenger compartment remained stable in the frontal impact while the car scored maximum points in the side barrier test. It also offered adequate protection in the more severe side pole impact, and scored top points for the protection it offered to pedestrians.
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