1994 Jeep Cherokee

My 1994 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4WD was the 1st new Jeep I had bought after buying my mom's '87 Cherokee Laredo 4-Dr in '90. The 4.0L 6-cyl was the most reliable & durable engine Jeep offered. Avg fuel economy and a very comfortable interior with a perfect location of the dashboard switches & knobs. It came with a 7yr 70Kmi power-tran warranty for added piece of mind. From deep snow to rough dirt roads the ride height, 4WD & Goodyear Wrangler Radials with outlined white lettering made all paths passable. The exterior black trim with red stripes within the black trim really looked sharp at the time. I bought the tanish bronze metallic and the Sports trim made it very sharp compared to the white, black & red exterior colors I had seen in the region at Thanksgiving & the months leading up to the holidays of '93. My blue & silver Cherokee Laredo had over 150Kmi and was beginning to show its age & 7 winters of added wear. I tried to protect the alloy wheels by mounting 4 black steel wheels with 4 Goodyear Wrangler Radials but the plastic coating on the alloy was starting to peel when I bought the Cherokee Laredo and I considered having them repolished and clear coated but I don't want to use the money I was saving for a new Cherokee so I started taking them off each Oct - Apr and putting them on the garage wall and mount the steel wheels which preserved the original wheels. My only negative was that I wish 1). That I would have kept my 1st Cherokee Sport & 2). That Jeep offered more of the Country Trim pkg options on the Sport. I kept my Sport for 4yrs & traded it for a '98, and the '98 was traded for a '01 Classic with the smoke grey alloys that I kept for our daughter to take back to college her Junior year & we bought our 1st ,Grand Cherokee a '06 Ltd, '11 GCLtd, ''16 GCLtd, '20 GC-Overland & '23 Grand Cherokee OL, the best GC yet !

My Cherokee Sport was extremely durable, easy to work on (not that I had issues) It was driven in Army training areas and then back on the highway with no difference in ride or performance.

This 1994 Jeep Cherokee Sport 4x4 has been in my family since it was new. It has over 280,000 miles, with only standard maintenance needed. (and a couple of water pumps) It doesn't have all the bells and whistles, and I don't miss them. I will get into this jeep, and not be concerned about making a coast to coast run. If something goes wrong, odds are, I can fix it on the side of the road. Simple, tough, surprisingly sprightly, and fantastically reliable. I gratefully received this Jeep from my parents over a decade ago, and look forward to handing it down to my son in a few years. As does he!