White Jeep Grand Cherokee Rental in Los Angeles

White with the gloss-black wheels and the blacked-out grille surround is the combination that makes this generation of Grand Cherokee look modern rather than traditional. The car's shape is squarer and cleaner than the one it replaced, and a bright finish is what shows that — a dark car of this shape just looks like every other large SUV.

It is also the sensible colour for the way this car gets used: long days, a lot of freeway, and often a dirt turnout at the end of it. White keeps the cabin cool through an afternoon at a trailhead, hides the pale dust a graded road leaves, and looks equally right at a house in the hills and at a hotel. Take it for a week that involves getting out of the city.

The Grand Cherokee is what the Wrangler is not: comfortable, quiet and completely undemanding on a long day. It keeps the things that make a Jeep a Jeep — real all-wheel drive, ground clearance that shrugs off a graded dirt road, a seven-slot grille nobody has to be told about — and wraps them in a car that isolates you from the road rather than reporting it.

Inside it is a genuine surprise if the last Jeep you sat in was ten years ago. The cabin is quiet at freeway speed, the materials are good, and the second row is roomy enough for two adults to be comfortable across a long drive to Palm Springs. The boot is deep and square.

Honest hook: it is the two-row car. Five seats, no third row — if you need seven, the Grand Cherokee L in the fleet is the longer version built for exactly that.