Luxury sport-utilities were still a novelty when Chrysler Corp. President Robert Lutz plowed the first Jeep Grand Cherokee through a lobby window at the 1992 Detroit auto show.
Inherited from Chrysler's 1987 buyout of American Motors, the original Grand Cherokee was a hodgepodge of truck parts combined with modern passenger-car technology.
It was produced in a new factory in Detroit, where two solid axles and a hoary pushrod six-cylinder engine were bolted to a pressed-steel unit-body chassis with comparatively sleek lines and a well-appointed cockpit.
This unusual package debuted in 1993 as a 1994 model just as the sport-utility segment was …
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