Stellantis just pulled the sheets on the refreshed 2022 Jeep Compass, debuting the crossover at the 2021 Chicago Auto Show. When it hits the market, the new 2022 Jeep Compass will rival the Chevy Trailblazer.
The latest 2022 Jeep Compass features a fresh design inside and out, and includes LED reflector headlamps as standard, while LED projector headlamps, LED fog lights, and LED tail lights are offered higher in the range
The lineup is composed of five different trim levels, including the Sport, Latitude, Latitude LUX, Limited, and Trailhawk. The new Latitude LUX trim includes several premium features and standard safety tech, while the off-roading Trailhawk includes the Jeep Active Drive system with a 20:1 crawl ratio, skid plates, red tow hooks, 17-inch wheels, and all-season tires, as well as a 1-inch lift for 8.6 inches of ground clearance,
Inside, the 2022 Jeep Compass features a new 10.1-inch Uconnect 5 center stack display, as well as an available 10.25-inch frameless TFT digital cluster. Standard spec includes a 8.4-inch touchscreen, plus wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. There’s also available heated rear seats, a first for the Compass nameplate.
In total, the new Compass offers 75 advanced safety and security features, and is standard with Full-speed Collision Warning with active brake and pedestrian/cyclist detection, Active Lane Management with LaneSense Lane Departure Warning with Lane Keep Assist, and Blind-spot Monitoring with Rear Cross Path detection. The 2022 Jeep Compass also offers Highway Assist semi-autonomous driving, which Jeep says will have late availability.
As for the power spec, the 2022 Jeep Compass is motivated by a 2.4L “Tigershark” four-cylinder engine, which produces 177 horsepower and 172 pound-feet of torque, mating to either a nine-speed or six-speed automatic transmission.
The new Compass also offers two Jeep 4×4 systems and Select-Terrain traction management systems, and will fully disconnect the rear axle for enhanced fuel economy.
The 2022 Jeep Compass is set to arrive in North American dealers in the Fall.
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Nice interior. I’m sure it’s high quality. Chevy, you need to learn the lesson…
@ Sigurd
Totally agree. GM in General though not just Chevy but yes Chevrolet in particular is very bad overall.
FCA, now Stellantis, has been doing GREAT interiors for a while!! This new Compass is a great example but RAM and even the lowly Chrysler 200 and 500X looked great.
Malibu has a nice exterior design, handles well (slightly better than 200), but the interior is sub par, can’t compete with Accord, K5, Camry, or Mazda 6. Looks so cheap!! GM may save a few dollars but they loose far more sales.
GM, including Trailblazer, does nice exterior design. With that said FCA looks better!!
They should have given it the 1.3 I4 Turbo GSE engine, at least as an option. Wieght wise, a 2.0 I4 Turbo GME would make sense, but may come off as “too much” for this segment in general. Engines in this segment are rated more on responsiveness than actual power to the pavement. The 9 speed should be the only transmission at this point. I know people have complained about it, but the 9 speed is their future so just go ahead get any issues straight, and make it standard. Having the Aisin 6 speed around would have a customer asking why it still exists in the lineup if there is a 9 speed. Then they will be lead to believe the 6 speed has better durability, which it may. So just get the 9 speed straight and make it standard Stellantis.
Josh: I’ve owned a Jeep with the 6 speed. I’ve had a Buick Encore with a 6 speed (Jeep was 2016 and Buick was the next car and 2018). I loved them both (transmissions) and they never left me wanting for more nor did they ever aggravate me. All Mazda’s have a 6 speed auto with no other offerings. I’m not a fan of the Mazda’s, but I give them credit for having a good 6 speed. I’ve now driven numerous cars with 9 speeds and I hated every one of them. Constantly confused as to what gear they should be in. My two current cars are 2020 CT4 with the 8 speed and 2021 Volvo S60 with their 8 speed. The Volvo trans is better than the Cadillac’s, but I’d still prefer a 6 speed any day.
What need is there for anything over 6 speeds? I’ve posed that question to many people with the only answer being “more competitive”. Lame answer.
A more aggressive 1st gear for stronger launches or better pulling power if towing. Closer spaced ratios so that no matter what speed you’re at, you’re always in or very close to the power band.
The newer transmissions also have better pumping efficiency, so more power makes it to the ground, which in itself helps gas mileage. Also faster shift speed, so even further improving acceleration.
They don’t help epa tests much, but they do increase real world mileage. When you’re putting a 177hp 4 cylinder in a awd crossover it needs all the help it can get and this will help the 2.4 feel less anemic. I have heard bad things about the FCA 9 speed though. When cars like the Malibu 2.0 went from the 6 to the 9 speed it took about a second off their 1/4 mile acceleration.
My wife has a Dart with the 2.4/6 speed. It’s ok for power for what it is, below average fuel economy for its class and an overall very rough engine that surges and groans when it first starts. FCA said it was normal and they all do it.
Mr. Mike: Thanks for that explanation. I’ve never had anyone give that detail. However, I will say that the things you listed don’t seem to transfer into real world value. I’ve driven 3 separate GM vehicles with the 9 speed and hated all three of them. I actually had each one for about a week each and drove them a good number of miles. All 3 were extremely slow to kick down, felt sluggish unless putting the petal to the floor, and they always seemed confused as to what gear they were supposed to be in. This was especially evident with coming to a stop or slowing down. As for the MPG, I wasn’t keeping close records on it, but they certainly didn’t seem to be better and I felt they were worse on gas. Maybe that was because I was forced to use the go pedal so much more aggressively to get those downshifts? Anyhow, I hear you and understand you, but I still don’t see the value in anything over the 6 speed.
More gears is better acceleration, better fuel economy at part throttle, always being able to fall on the powerband for towing, more overdrive gears, etc. The 9 speed was rushed to market because Sergio wanted FCA to be the first mainstream auto maker with a 9 speed in production. The 9 speed is future, like it or not. So if it’s their future they need to quit horsing around and fix all the issues and make it standard. Even if that means paying other companies to use their programming. Stellantis still has the Aisin 6 speed in the Compass, the 62TE in the Promaster, 68RFE in the Rams, and Aisin 66RC/69RC in the rams. They said everything would be ZF 8 and 9 speed by now. I’m a Mopar guy, I’ll be glad when they get this straight, because transmissions is the #1 thing people knock mopar about.
I honestly just cannot believe that GM has allowed Chrysler of all companies to leapfrog them and pretty substantially I might add in the interior department. My how GM has failed in that Sector. GM needs a new Bob Lutz just screaming for better interiors. With every new reveal from other Automakers it is getting pretty embarrassing how much worse most GM interiors are in the respected segment.
I would say besides the Enclave, C8, Tahoe, Yukon, and Escalade, GM isn’t even in the same decade as others.
Some GM cars like the Blazer and Envision has a cool design but the materials and Instrument clusters as well are way behind the competition. GM might literally make the absolute worse Instrument clusters. Man they look like they’re from the early 2000’s. Gotta get better in interior and get better real quickly.
Why not? Mopar has literally taken all of GM’s old partners.
This competes with the Equinox more than the Trailblazer. The 2.4 liter Tigershark engine might be the worst engine for sale on any new vehicle in the US.
This does not at all compete with the Nox. It is a Trailblazer segment car.
The Cherokee competes with the Nox and I would say both of those vehicles are ranked pretty low in said Segment. The Cherokee barely has better materials than the Nox, that is how bad the Nox plastics are.
The problem is you’re still driving a Dart wagon and not a real Jeep.
I’ll will say the interior looks good.
Renegade is closer to Trailblazer than Compass.
Bruce: That 2.4L Tigershark is actually a very good engine. It has (at least the last time I checked) very good reviews and seems to be quite reliable. The one I had in my 2016 Patriot was great with zero issues and decent MPG under most conditions. Why do you say it’s so bad?
I don’t agree with that. Ours has been reliable (42k ish) but it’s rough, surges when it starts and moans. Better once it’s warmed up though. With my wife driving (who has gone WOT probably 3 times in her life) it gets about 25mpg in a Dart. It’s not terrible, but it’s not great. In a heavier vehicle like this I think it would be a turd, but the 9 speed would help if FCA figured out how to make it shift ok.
The thing you and everyone else is not realizing is that there are different versions of this engine. This is the 2.4 Tigershark, an updated 2.4 World Gas Engine. There was also a 2.0 Tigershark, which was an updated 2.0 World Gas Engine. The 1.8 World Gas Engine went out of production when everything else converted to Tigershark. The Tigershark improvements we good EXCEPT for the fact that FIAT put Multiair II on the 2.4 Tigershark, hence the excessive oil consumption. If Stellantis would go back and just give the 2.4 Tigershark the standard VVT from the 2.0 Tigershark, it would be fine. Obama required FIAT give Chrysler fuel saving technology as good faith to the UAW that they were going to work together. Why do you think this is the only Chrysler engine that got Multiair? Technically, it’s a Hyundai/Mitsubishi/Chrysler engine under GEMA (WGE), then refreshed under FIAT/Chrysler (Tigershark). The funny thing is, the Tigersharks have Direct Injection incorporated into the heads, but never used it because the complexity outweighed the cost, especially considering that the turbo downsizing trend came about as well. This is why I mentioned in my first comment above, that they just replace it with the 1.3 Turbo I4 GSE Firefly. GSE doesn’t even need to exist really, because they could just make a 1.5 GME Turbo I3 based off the 2.0 GME I4 Turbo. And they have 1.5 GSE Turbo I4 coming to Europe currently.
Nope to you and the guy that responded to you. Renegade = Trailblazer, Compass = Trax (which has an I4 and is smaller than the Trailblazer, but should be bigger because of the engine), Cherokee = Equinox. Grand Cherokee = Traverse (tricky segment because all the cheapos use fwd, while others use rwd like Ford and Stellantis), Wagoneer = Tahoe, No long Wagoneer to = Suburban YET. Grand Wagoneer is a trim level, not length.
Trailblazer rival my backside. This offers more 4X4 capability than the Trailblazer can only dream about.
It is in the Trailblazer’s segment and price point.
The Trailblazer just sucks though. GM makes a LOT of vehicles but I can only count on 1 hand how many I’d be willing to put in my garage.
It has a low first gear (20:1 vs 15:1 overall ratio) and… 1/2 inch more of ground clearance?
(As a comparison, a full-size SUV with low range is around 40:1)
Most comments above are saying how nice the interior is. You can tell by just that one pic or are you looking at more pics somewhere else? From what I can see, it’s not bad outside of the hideous screen stuck on the dash top. Too bad because I’ve been impressed with how Jeep’s were keeping the screen so nicely integrated and not going with this stupid fad. Oh well.
Stellantis tends to designs their interiors around the most expensive trim, and their mid trims look half@@@@@, GM focuses their trims around the mass market options and their premium trims therefore look half@@@@@. If I had to guess, all of us here would end up buying the trailblazer, cause idk any of us here that would shovel out 40k for the premium trim of the jeep with the awful tigershark (it was great when it came out over a decade ago) we here would probably go with the trailblazer for 20K or move up a car class.
Any 4 cylinder is a no for me especially since this isn’t a real Chrysler vehicle and Fiats are notorious for having horrible reliability in their 4 cylinders. It’s the same for literally every single brand especially GM with their “eco”tech engines and Ford which isn’t exactly doing the greatest with their 4 cylinders either and we’re not even going to talk about Nissan. I would just go with the Cherokee if anything since it’s a real Chrysler/Jeep product and it has the V6 and it has actual off-road capability and isn’t a crappy Italian Fiat 500 underneath.
GM needs to wipe out all their executives (especially Barra) and they need to quit with all this cost cutting bs. They’re not fooling anyone at this point. Ford and Lincoln are bringing out a bunch of new vehicles and refreshing the outdated ones and Chrysler has improved in basically every way starting with the Grand Wagoneer and Grand Cherokee. GM isn’t picking up any new customers from any brand like they were except in China and most people there has never had a car. Mark my words, GM will be packing up for China within the next 10 years. I mean they basically manufacture every single part there already.
“Ford and Lincoln are bringing out a bunch of new vehicles and refreshing the outdated ones and Chrysler has improved in basically every way”
I had to laugh at that one, lol..
You have to laugh but you really want to cry because it’s true.
Based on what?, the F150 lost its title it had since ’77 to GM, Lincoln is outsold 2-1 to Caddy and growing, Ford botch the Bronco launch, Crapler is a former shell of itself and last to develop EVs. What else?.
Love my 2018 Jeep Cherokee – it looks great – it drives great – interior is great – I just can’t figure out why the engine had to be replaced at 20k miles??? By the way neither could the dealer!
I have a 2018 compass with the 2.4 engine and 147,000+ miles and it only shifts funny if I have to stomp on it to get around dumb drivers in a pack on the interstate speed above 60 mph .