NOTHING CUTE ABOUT IT; Meat-of-the-market utes battle for supremacy at New York show.(News; auto show)

Byline: BOB GRITZINGER Aside from upstart Hummer-and maybe that Japanese concern that makes the Land Cruiser-Land Rover and Jeep are the world's most recognized companies when it comes to sport/utility vehicle supremacy. At the New York auto show Jeep and Land Rover will launch fresh salvos in the SUV wars, and between Land Rover's next-generation Discovery, dubbed LR3 for the North American market (still Discovery elsewhere), and Jeep's next-generation Grand Cherokee, it's a tossup as to which vehicle is more important.

Grand Cherokee is widely regarded as that which first ...

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