Jeep Compass test drive since 2006 crossover

Jeep Compass

By purchasing any jeep, you become involved in the legend. But if earlier the legend obliged its admirers either shake on a 100 percent SUV Wrangler, or lay out considerable money for the representative of the Cherokee family, then with the advent of the compass, the entrance ticket has become more affordable.
This car has a appearance that attracts views. And certainly no one will be mistaken with his family affiliation. Seven vertical slots in the radiator grille is an unchanged sign of the company, which gave an unofficial name to a whole class of cars to SUVs. And which fights so that the cars of other brands are called jeeps! In their opinion, the jeep is only Jeep!

Is Compass so compass? Yes. But there are options to be in Russian to put the stress correctly on the first syllable, and only professional sea jargon allows you to make the second half of this laconic word to strike shock. But the double with the will-nilly pulls the pronunciation in favor of the marine version. Compass listen! Even in the Moscow representative office of Daimler-Chrysler, they could not give us a definite answer about the correct stress means, the choice is yours.

Yes, and Chrysler now has other problems how to survive after a divorce from Daimler, who took a loss -making American company under his reliable steel wing 7 years ago. Over the years of marriage, these swan and cancer have conscientiously tried to pull up the profit and image. But, alas, the attempts were in vain. Daimler flew away, Chrysler rakes it on his own. Let me, where is the third participant in the fable trio pike? And she sailed earlier this is Mitsubishi Motors. They did not grow together. But from the Japanese, the Germans borrowed the platform of the popular and, of course, successful Outlander model. And they transferred it to the American company Jeep, which is part of the Chrysler Corporation. I have not completely confused you with these family ties? He washed away that our hero compass received the Japanese platform and this is good. (I recall a cynical medical joke: what, the patient will sweat before death? Yes, is that good!).

In fact, this is good how Compass rides, but more on that below. The appearance of the jeep is great for an amateur look at his features, maybe you are the same amateur? But the interior decoration is the first feeling that to develop the design of the salon of philanthropy, humanism and political correctness, they specially selected students of the correctional school so that the poor can be self -realized.
Absolutely everyone I had to ride on a compass, this time and during the past such tests were not shy about expressions about the cheap manner of plastic and configurations of internal panels. Yes, the 41st Muscovite was more perfect for the interior decoration! This is a consolidated opinion of most of my savvy passengers. A knock-astock, a bang-bug, a shock-bucket for what you can’t knock in a cabin, everything responds with hollow tones of varying degrees of oppression. This plastic is also extremely antipathetic to the touch. Cutile handles are tactfully unpleasant. In order to carry out a selector of the boxing box on the gap-hezigzag, you need to make a gross effort, but you should not feel exactly where the lever froze, you cannot peer into an inexpressive digitization.

Compass seats are convenient in their profile, but in the process of adjustment in height, the setting of their angle changes and I did not order it! The knees of the driver here rest against the wide overlapine of the steering wheel hub are sitting apart apart. The plain poisonous and green lighting of devices and radio resembles the first electronic clock of the eighties of the past century. I could not fix the selected radio stations with the usual retention of the button. Apparently, there is some other, American algorithm, but I could not solve it without studying the instruction. There is no music from the steering wheel either. In return under the steering wheel, a cruise control control panel sticks out. Yes, and sound acoustics at a decent level. And the clogging temperature of Compass, despite the clearly European address of the supply of this machine, kindly reports in Fahrenheites to see general education.

But if all of the above seemed to you by nit -picking and trifles, and most importantly a drive, then I hurry to please you. The dynamics of this measuring device is at a height. A peppy, uniform acceleration provided by a powerful engine and a modern transmission scheme allows the compass to easily make its competitors on a straight line. And in the turns, a relatively low car with a moderately stiff suspension clings to the trajectory well, showing an easy tendency to demolish the front to the outside of the intended curve. But in the near -Stolium zone, the steering wheel is empty.
The smoothness of the course is also the strength of the most compact jeep. Large strokes of suspensions do not make it wax, but provide sidelines with greater comfort than other SUVs. But with the comfort of placement in the second row, everything is not so clear. Narrow door openings interfere with climbing there, but the ceiling is so high so that you don’t rest against it and look forward over the heads of the heads.

Compass also has a decent 20-centimeter clearance, but large overhangs and relatively low bumper-painted bumper bodies do not contribute too much to the courage of the driver during contact parking.

Yes, a bouquet of advantages turned out to be strange. Perhaps that is why we rarely meet Jeep Compass in the flow of cars. But, as a comforting prize, this model has the title of the least stolen in the classroom.
Debit: 2006.
Length/width/height: 4405/1760/1630 mm.
Base: 2635 mm.
Equipped mass: 1600 kg.
Engine volume: 2360 cm3.
Power: 175 hp at 6000 rpm.
Maximum torque: 222 HM at 4400 rpm.
Maximum speed: 185 km/h.
Acceleration to 100 km/h: 11.3 sec.
Average fuel consumption: 10.2 l/100 km.
The price is from 828,000 rubles (as of 02.2008).
 

A source: autolet.ru