Few things in motoring are more weird than the sensation of stomping on the accelerator of the Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk with launch control initiated.
As you'd expect from a vehicle that hits 100km/h in 3.7 seconds (we actually did it in 3.5 at the vehicle's Australasian launch), it bends your face, throws your body into the seat, and shouts in your ear a fair bit. The key difference though is the sensation of achieving such feats of marvel from a vehicle that weighs more than Jupiter and is as comfortable as a favourite armchair to sit in.
As you can tell, we quite like the Trackhawk. It's obnoxious, comfortable, and almost makes up for that new Wrangler's abysmal one-star ANCAP safety rating. But, for some reason, a tuning company in Germany called O.CT Tuning has squeezed even more from the Trackhawk's power-train.
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The company claim to have given the Trackhawk over 100hp (74kW) extra over what its 6.2-litre supercharged Hemi V8 does from the factory.
In standard form, the Trackhawk's engine makes 527kW of power and 875Nm of torque. Enough for it to hit 100km/h in a formerly record-holding 3.7 seconds as claimed, with a top speed of 290km/h.
O.CT Tuning through a range of tweaks have pumped power in their Stage 1 package up to 807hp, or 602kW. Torque naturally increases too, to 950Nm. The firm's Stage 2 package is even more extreme, with power and torque expanded to 636kW and 1000Nm.
The bulk of those gains in the Stage 1 package are made through an ECU reprogramming, while Stage 2 adds a supercharger pulley kit and changes to the transmission to produce quicker shifts.