Look up the Jeep Cherokee on the brand’s consumer website and you’ll see a lot of trims, but there’s also one you won’t see: Overland. Topping the Cherokee trim ladder, Overland is a well-appointed but under-advertised ride, meaning it’s one you don’t see much of plying local streets or sitting patiently outside the grocery store.
And for 2021, you won’t see it at all.
Dealer order guides tipped off CarsDirect that the range-topping Overland trim would disappear from the Cherokee lineup in the coming model year, and a Jeep spokesperson has now confirmed the move.
Come ’21, the Limited 4×4 will serve as the loftiest Cherokee trim.
Starting at a hair under $40,000 in 4×4 guise, the Overland (turbocharged 2.0-liter, nine-speed automatic) can easily retail for $43,000 with some goodies attached. And some people might even pay that sum for one, assuming they know it exists. The trim’s real-world presence is almost as ghostly as its online one.
Current inventory listings show just ten 2020 Cherokee Overlands in the United States, CarsDirect reports. Sporting 19-inch, grey wheels and appropriate badging, the Overland boasts just three 2020 model-year entries on Cars.com. A rare beast, indeed — kind of like a manual-transmission Compass.
However, while the pricey compact fades completely from the Cherokee camp next year, the Overland name will live on among Grand Cherokees. Starting at just under $47k before destination, that model sits four rungs below the range-topping, Hellcat-powered Grand Cherokee Trackhawk.
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The Cherokee Overland is WAY too close to the GC Overland. Who wants a compact non-premium SUV for that kind of money?
Never seen one, and it’s overpriced by 5 Grand at least for what you get.
My wife had one of these for a day as a loaner while her Durango SXT RWD (the basest of base model Durangos) was in for service. It was the epitome of a plasti-chrome plated turd. It felt so cheap, it’s no wonder the Overland trim was nixed. It doesn’t belong on this vehicle.
Agreed. While the Grand Cherokee can scale up to Overland and hold its own, I think the bones of the (non-Grand) Cherokee are just too cheap to pull it off. Cimarron syndrome.
I wonder if Jeep is planning to phase out the Overland trim full stop. I noticed over the past year that they quit marketing the Grand Cherokee Overland and they’ve introduced a couple new trims/packages that are basically Overlands without the badge.
When looking for a AWD vehicle I suckered into looking a Cherokee, $16,0000 Man that’s cheap! Took me awhile to figure out it was 2WD, but I kept getting phone calls and emails from the local dealers for months. The Latitude looked to be the nicest for not much money.
Manual Compass 4x4s are rare for a reason.
FCA have refused to diagnose, repair or service the car properly the entire time I’ve owned mine.
She’s cute tho.