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It’s official. FIAT now owns 51% of Chrysler and has taken control. And this comes at quite a good time for Chrysler Jeep.

The slow selling Jeep Cherokee, new just three years ago, has been abandoned. The seven-seater Jeep Commander is no more. The quite good Patriot and quite bad Compass have been replaced by a new Compass with a Mercedes engine that works very well indeed. And now the old Jeep Grand Cherokee has been dumped in favour of an all-new Jeep Grand Cherokee that is really a Jeep remake of the next generation Mercedes ML, sharing the same chassis and drivetrain and pretty much the same engine.

The 15’ 10” long body offers comfortable seating for five, a load deck capable of carrying five people’s luggage, and a full size underfloor spare wheel. (A space saver or a can of glop isn’t going to be much use in the middle of a Yorkshire moor.)

There are two trim levels: Limited and Overland. The Limited shrugs off potholes and speed humps with standard, sensible 265/60 R18s. The Overland comes on 265/50 R20s and ‘Quadra-Lift’ air suspension, and also includes satnav, rear parking camera, panoramic sunroof and adaptive cruise control. It’s a hefty £7,200 more (the price of a Hyundai i10 1.2 Classic), but it’s worth it.