Jeep dealers want the Jeep Cherokee real bad, but they want it to be real good. “I don’t want to sell 35 Cherokees in a month and have 34 come
back to the service department the next month,” David Kelleher, a member of Chrysler’s national dealer council and a dealer in Philadelphia. Chrysler delayed the first shipments of the new
Cherokee due to a desire to improve the new nine-speed transmission.