00:00this is the jeep compass or so it says on the bonnet and on the doors but no matter how
00:05many
00:05jeep easter eggs the designers have put around this car this is not a jeep and in this episode
00:11i'll explain why spoiler alert in a moment i will absolutely trash this car the only thing i like
00:21about it are its looks yes from a distance at a certain angle it looks like a jeep or rather
00:27a
00:28modern interpretation of a jeep i think it looks better than the previous two generations of the
00:32compass though that's not difficult however this is where the good news ends this jeep imposter is
00:39in fact the citron c5 aircross opel grandland or peugeot 5008 but dressed in hiking garb to make
00:46it look more adventurous let me repeat to make it look if you want to know more about the practical
00:56aspects of the jetron com cross watch my review of the real citron c5 aircross link in the video
01:02description and on the screen under the bonnet is the next generation of the three cylinder 1.2 liter
01:09puretech engine which is now called the e-hybrid because it's a mild hybrid it makes 145 horsepower
01:16which doesn't sound like much by today's standards but back in the day if you wanted an xj cherokee with
01:21more power you had to splash on a 4 liter engine however there is a problem with the 1.2
01:29poor tech
01:29and i'm not talking about the cambelled puree
02:11of course many suvs these days come with on-demand all-wheel drive with the rear axle being powered
02:17by some variation of the multi-plate clutch or a hybrid powertrain where the electric motor drives
02:23the rear wheels that's how dacia did it for example but not stellantis one of the world's
02:29automotive giants
02:34stellantis does have a phev based all-wheel drive system and you can buy the compass with a phev but
02:41only front-wheel drive if you want all-wheel drive you'll have to wait for the battery electric version
02:45but not for the regular one you'll have to splurge on the long-range model you can also import a
02:52us-spec
02:53compass for now with a two-liter petrol engine in the future there's also going to be a 1.6
02:58regular hybrid with ecvt
03:01and it's actually a prince engine which mini and pegeot owners remember
03:05oh too well
03:07if you're wondering if this can go further south from here let me assure you it can
03:14while the compass in this form will never see anything more challenging than a medium-sized curb the designers decided
03:20to keep things which make an off-roader somewhat annoying in everyday use the suspension is set up
03:27for rougher roads which you are unlikely to visit without all-wheel drive the steering is lazy like
03:33an old cat on a sunny day and the engine characteristics are like in an old diesel and that's despite
03:40this being
03:40a mild hybrid i don't know how stellantis managed to fuck this up i had the same engine with the
03:48same power
03:48in the opel frontera yes stellantis decided to violate that legend as well but at least over there
03:54nobody's pretending the frontera has anything to do with off-roading
04:01and that dacia duster that just overtook me is a better car than this
04:04of course putting the same engine with the same parameters into a larger and heavier vehicle will
04:13result in worse performance and this is the case here the compass is less economical than the
04:19frontera instead of claimed less than six liters per 100 kilometers in the combined cycle i barely
04:25managed to get it down to below eight the only positive is the acceleration in the frontera it was
04:31worse than the manufacturer claimed the compass in sport mode was marginally quicker than promised
04:38however whereas the frontera felt light and agile the way the compass is set up and how much it weighs
04:45make it feel like a much larger car than it really is
05:08the price of the jeep compass started 39 900 euro this car is the first edition model with options
05:16it costs 45 670 euro that's about three and a half grand more than a comparably specced citron c5
05:24aircross which doesn't pretend to be something that it isn't
05:31world's light in the box and you can see it in the second edition of the car that
05:32is the top of the car you can either have it or have it either
05:36or have it or have it or have it or have it or may not have it or have it
05:38or have it
05:38or have your own mood that's about it or may not have it or have it or have it you
05:39want
05:39but if you couldn't afford a jeep you still cannot afford it because this is not a jeep
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