Jeep Compass 2.0 Multijet II 170 4WD 2017 UK review — Auto Car
Jeep enters the competitive compact SUV market with its new Compass, blending ruggedness with contemporary styling and tech
What is it?
The Jeep Compass is yet another entrant into a crossover market segment that now contains enough distinct models and derivatives to stretch twice around the globe if you laid them all bumper to bumper. Perhaps.
It’s about time Jeep squared up to the likes of (deep breath) the Ford Kuga, Kia Sportage, Nissan Qashqai, Peugeot 3008, Renault Kadjar, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Vauxhall Grandland X, Volkswagen Tiguan and so on. Indeed, for a vehicle manufacturer that pioneered the rugged, go-anywhere ethos of what would become the lucrative sports utility vehicle market sector, it has taken an unfeasibly long time to come up with a truly credible competitor in the compact-SUV market sector.
It’s true that a Compass model existed in a previous life, but it was a clunker of the highest order and Jeep didn’t as much withdraw it from sale in 2015 as put both it and the car-buying public out of their respective miseries.
In Jeep’s defence, its focus until now has been on either renewing or introducing models either smaller (in the shape of the funky Renegade) and bigger (the Cherokee and Grand Cherokee) than the Compass, and the manufacturer’s growing sales around the globe prove that strategy to be quite a shrewd one.
However, with this segment still growing quickly — Jeep estimates that it will account for two million sales across Europe alone by 2020, up from 1.6m in 2016 — it was essential that this Qashqai-sized hole in Jeep product portfolio was filled.
There’s a confident swagger about Jeep as a brand, then, and this Compass attempts to marry the somewhat contrasting aims of being a hard-wearing, rugged, all-terrain 4×4 and a stylish, comfortable mode of family transport. Jeep says it wants to position its cars at the ‘authentic off-road capability’ end of this spectrum. As such, it has engineered the Compass with a ‘Chapman strut’ rear suspension because it says this arrangement provides much better wheel articulation than a twist beam and, in theory, should give it more ability in the rough than its competitors.
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