New Launch Button: 4.2 0-60 for 2014 SRT8

[Flyn]

Jeep has added a new "Launch" button to the 2014 Grand Cherokee SRT8. Hold the brake pedal, push the button which has a "Christmas Tree" icon, floor the gas pedal and the Jeep will hold a predetermined rpm until you release the pedal. Release the pedal and experience an AWD 4.2 0-60 launch (under ideal conditions). The reporter for the story was turning out consistent 4.5s.

By spelled out, we mean the whole word, "Launch," appears on the button to designate the 470-horsepower, all-wheel-drive Jeep SRT8's Launch Mode. There are no acronyms or guessing with this button. What the button does is also made clearer by the awesome depiction of a drag strip's starting-line lights, aka a "Christmas tree."

Jeep's launch control is standard on SRT8s for consistent, enhanced fast starts of the high-performance SUV. Launch Mode brings the engine, suspension, transmission and driveline together for fast launches from a standstill by revving the engine at a standstill and launching the 5,000-pound SUV like a rocket.

What does this insanely awesome button do? - Yahoo! Autos

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[Yaj Yak]

[MENTION=12]Bru[/MENTION] seems to be ahead of you on this one

 

[PANDA]

Why do they put all this shit into the SRT8 truck but the SRT8 cars do not get any of it. Just in this pic I see a lunch button and suspension modes.

 

[syP]

a launch button is needed on an Automatic AWD vehicle?

 

[cacicgtp7]

Gimmicky, would never use.

 

[Yaj Yak]

HEY PS THE REPORTER WE KNOW.

 

[Primalzer]

Why do they put all this shit into the SRT8 truck but the SRT8 cars do not get any of it. Just in this pic I see a lunch button and suspension modes.

Lunch button? Is that like a button that alerts a woman to make a sandwich for you?? If so, count me in!

 

[Csurane24]

Retarded, a 5,400 truck with awd and people need a launch control... I hate the dash, shifter and the gauges they put in the '14's too. They are changing shit to quick

 

[Yaj Yak]

hey so does your truck weigh 5400 lbs or ?

 

[Spivitz]

expensive sales gimmick...All you need is a 3,800 stall....cam...re-worked heads....beefed up trans....100 shot...etc

to be cool

 

[SRT41320]

maybe this is Chryslers way of saying their transmissions aren't junk anymore

 

[syP]

no.. they still have junk transmissions...



thats why they have to use a Mercedes trans

 

[Bru]

Writer is a hack

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[Bru]

This is the new zf 8 speed transmission. I don't believe there's any affiliation with Mercedes with the new trans. Could be mistaken.

 

[Flyn]

[MENTION=12]Bru[/MENTION] seems to be ahead of you on this one

I searched and didn't see another thread.? Bru can merge them if he wants.

 

[Yaj Yak]

 

[Flyn]

It's not like I'm looking for thread starting credit. I start so many what's one more or less? :smile:

 

[Yaj Yak]

@Bru seems to be ahead of you on this one

HEY PS THE REPORTER WE KNOW.

Writer is a hack

It's not like I'm looking for thread starting credit. I start so many what's one more or less? :smile:

What does this insanely awesome button do?

By Joe Bruzek | Cars.com – Tue, Jun 4, 2013 4:46 PM EDT

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The 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 is home to perhaps one of the most appropriate buttons we've encountered in the What Does This Button Do? series. Mysterious buttons are rarely spelled out as clearly as the Jeep SRT8's, or as fun to use.

By spelled out, we mean the whole word, "Launch," appears on the button to designate the 470-horsepower, all-wheel-drive Jeep SRT8's Launch Mode. There are no acronyms or guessing with this button. What the button does is also made clearer by the awesome depiction of a drag strip's starting-line lights, aka a "Christmas tree."

[Related: Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8, a ‘shine runner’s dream: Motoramic TV]

Jeep's launch control is standard on SRT8s for consistent, enhanced fast starts of the high-performance SUV. Launch Mode brings the engine, suspension, transmission and driveline together for fast launches from a standstill by revving the engine at a standstill and launching the 5,000-pound SUV like a rocket.

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To activate, Jeep's instructions say the SUV must be stopped on a level surface before fully depressing the brake pedal - while in Drive - and then pressing the Launch button. While holding the brake, mash the accelerator pedal to the floor within a half-second and the engine will rev to a predetermined rpm. Once the engine speed is up, all the driver has to do is lift the brake and the SRT8 launches perfectly every time.

Cars.com reviewer Aaron Bragman tested the SRT8's Launch Mode at the vehicle's introduction:

"Jeep rates the SRT Grand Cherokee at 4.8 seconds from zero to 60 mph, but I discovered that this is a conservative figure: Using the SRT's onboard software and a special launch button, I was able to consistently rip off 4.5-second zero-to-60 times, and SRT engineers say that they've been able to achieve 60 mph in 4.2 seconds under perfect conditions."




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ill help

 

[Yaj Yak]

lol no worries.

my buddy sent me the article earlier and i was like ha... i know that guy...

then you posted the thread also and again i said. HEY I KNOW THAT GUY

 

[Flyn]

Too funny. Guess I should look at author's names. at least I posted his link.

 

[Bru]

Yahoo occasionally picks up our stuff.

 

[Flyn]

LOL! Yahoo's one of my search sites. If they have it, I see it.

I thought you wrote an interesting article. My biggest question echoes one posted above. "Why doesn't Dodge put this in a car rather than a two and a half ton SUV?" Other Mopar transmissions too weak to take the brake torque launches?

 

[SRT41320]

This is the new zf 8 speed transmission. I don't believe there's any affiliation with Mercedes with the new trans. Could be mistaken.

you sir are correct!

 

[Bru]

LOL! Yahoo's one of my search sites. If they have it, I see it.

I thought you wrote an interesting article. My biggest question echoes one posted above. "Why doesn't Dodge put this in a car rather than a two and a half ton SUV?" Other Mopar transmissions too weak to take the brake torque launches?

I would guess you'll see LC on the SRT cars when they eventually get the 8 speed trans. They currently use the old 5 speed. Also with the new 8 speed, the transmission has rev matching downshifts that the 5er doesn't. Awd on the Jeep also makes LC much more interesting and purposeful.