The model offensive at the Chrysler company continues unbroken: After the Dodge Caliber, the SRT variants for the Chrysler 300C and the jeep Grand Cherokee as well as that likewise this year presented COMM other follows now the jeep compass. With more modern Design and high-quality all wheel technology he competes in the segment of the compact SUVs. The requirement is high: It should always and everywhere be the car.
The opponents compass are fast constituted - and indeed no Leichtgewichte: Toyota RAV4, Honda CR-V and Hyundai Tuscon stand highly in the favour of the buyers, the segment boomt continuing. Usually there are two ways, in order to break in with success in a well set up market. Better or more favorably its than the competition. Differently with jeep: In order to go safe, the compass is to be better and more favorable.
The thing with the price is easy: The compass starts with 23.990 euro and costs thereby achievement as well as equipment actually less than the counterparts of Toyota, Honda and Hyundai. Because already the basis model has a 2,4-Liter-Vierzylinder-Benziner with 170 HP under the hood, in series a permanent all-wheel drive and good equipment (extensive safety package, CD radio, nebula lights and 17-Zoll-Räder). In addition there is the traditional Rundumsorglos package, which contains four years long all repair, service and maintenance cost inclusive wearing parts.
Self-willed...
The armored reconnaissance vehicle optics is matter of taste, but at least the compass carries clear jeep courses. Are typical the grill with the seven louvers, the round headlights and the trapezoidal wheel housings. The tail opinion against it is exchangeably, here a few loans of the Porsche Cayenne, there a little Korea Style.
Disillusionment causes the view into the interior. Cheap hard plastics dominates the Interieur and makes it heavy for one to feel heimelig. Harm, because functionality is good.
... however practically
At all the compass became a consistently practical car. It offers in front like in the back much place, a passablen trunk (334 - 1,277 litres) and many simple, but thought solutions out. For turning the divisible back bank down about must be only pulled on a loop. The front seat passenger seat-back can be put completely flat. The load soil is even and with a herausnehmbaren as well as washable mat laid out. Funny feature: The dome lamp in the trunk can be decreased and used as flashlight. When desired there is then still another sound plant with boxes in the rear flap, can which be swivelled outward: Party acoustic irradiation for the picknick guarantees.
The platform divides the jeep compass with the Dodge Caliber. But the SUV drives itself clearly more sportily than the ultrakomfortable compact car. The taut, over-hard chassis tuning compass and the exact steering element do not promote the driving fun lastingly. The again developed, standard permanent all-wheel drive makes an important contribution to the good handling characteristics. Freedom drive I "grumbles itself the system. Under normal conditions the compass drives spritsparend as Fronttriebler, if necessary connects the rear axle automatically. The electronic clutch is interlaced with the
Fahrassistenzsystemen ESP and ABS.
With check function
For more violent area the Zentraldifferenzial can be closed manually. Then up to 60 per cent of the torque to the rear axle are led. Impressing, as loosely the compass roots itself also by fieses terrain. Our Offroad trip led across muddy, tieffurchige Waldwege with driving through water, which petrol ordinary consumer would dare probably not once with a Wrangler.
Sufficiently Kraft has the 2,4-Liter-Vierzylinder, which is to be had alternatively with a manual 5-Ganggetriebe which can be switched cleanly or a stepless mechanism. But particularly on the road one expects from 170 HP somewhat more forward urge. Particularly cultivated the again developed Chrysler Weltmotor does not run likewise.
Only next year is available as alternative the 140-PS-Turbodieselmotor well-known from the Caliber. Although jeep calls the self fuze model CRD, it concerns not around a Common Rail Diesel, but the pump nozzle TDI coming from VOLKSWAGEN.
Result
If one does not regard it to the compass also at first sight, it is a genuine jeep: Also for a SUV very good off Road characteristics gesegnet, practically, durchdacht and somehow cool. Also it convinces on-Road with agile handling, sufficiently strong engines and complete safety equipment.
The large deficiency at the small jeep is the very cheaply seeming hard plastic desert in the interior. Success will nevertheless have the compass, but outstanding price/achievement relationship might ensure.
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