My friend who is 30 and has never had a license or literally ever driven a vehicle insists he wants a jeep if he ever gets a car. I told him they're shitheaps and he said "every car brand makes some good cars and some bad cars." Even if that was true, toyota still basically only makes good cars and jeep basically only makes bad cars lmao. Guy refused to believe me when I was telling him cars aren't magical and there are factual metrics to measure which brands and models are reliable. He kept insisting that brand didn't matter and that every car has problems so it doesn't matter. I asked him if he seriously thought a 4runner and a wrangler from the same year would require the same amount of repairs and maintenance by 100k. He said yes. Sigh.
My grand Cherokee broke beyond repair after 6 weeks. I now drive a Honda. My sister got grandpas Jeep liberty; it has the wobble of death. My uncle has a gladiator…yea a gladiator.
@@rolanddeschain6265you are the same person who will call a Corvette reliable even though Chevy is known for making nothing but recalls. So yeah he is right brand doesn't matter. Old jeeps were reliable. Jeep makes some shit but generally their cars are okay. I've worked on a car with the same power train as the new compass and they are fairly easy to work on are cheaper to work on and generally decent in the reliability department. All of which are reasonable things to buy a jeep.
Oh yeah, I’ve never worked in Sales of a dealership but I have worked in service and currently in parts, still get to see what goes on behind the curtains of sales department and it’s nuts the shit they do to pull profit. That’s why I try to tell people when they go to buy a car that salesmen is doing whatever he has to do to get a commission check from you lol well more so his sales manager pulling the strings but you get what I mean
We had a pre-registered Compass that did the rounds at the dealerships and celebrated its second birthday without being bought, pretty much says it all.
Nah, I had a 2018 Compass when it first coming and almost two years in, I traded it in for a 2010 Element that I liked a helluva lot better. My grandma had a 2021 Renegade before she died and I got to drive that occasionally and I find the Renegade better than the Compass. Hell, if I had the money, I’d have both my Wrangler 6MT and take over the financing for the Renegade.
This is one of the most quotable RCR episodes to date. My personal favorites: - "You went to the strip club and tipped with nickels" - "The Jeep Compass Latitude...it's literally a lateral move" - "You learn pretty quickly when you drive cars, [that] disappointment is a renewable resource."
The least surprising but still best part is the toilet paper roll of jokes about Tommy Fenstamacher, as soon as you rip one off, there's another one right there. It's a low-rent gag but still comforting somehow, which I'm sure a Compass driver needs in their life.
This. Years ago I rode in a Jeep Cherokee that was so underpowered the loaded semis crawling up the Coquihalla highway(pass summit: >1200m) were honking in sympathy at us. This thing isn't much more powerful than my friends' *hatchback*
Damn man, Tanya has fallen hard. Wasn't she the one with the new Mercedes Benz SUV last year cruising the Main Line hoping to get a future Villanova sugardaddy?
@@gilbertosantos2806 "questionable activities"=curb bumbing with every park and leaving her car's paint smeared on the corner of every Circle K in town.
@@josephj.6478 Her picture is at every Wawa along Route 30 with NO!!! written in red marker in big letters. The legend of Tanya has spread, much like the social diseases she's rumored to have.
No that’s a Renegade. Those are actually the same plateform as a 500L and made in Italy. I was a salesman at a CDJR store and every time I got in a new one, they always smelled like fish sticks. No idea why, but they always did.
Had a friend who was a Chrysler mechanic for a few years, and dang he was frustrated by how badly made their products were across the board as he would start each day with an enthusiastic, "Jesus Chrysler!"
My wife’s 4 door wrangler 2017 6spd manual Sahara is a beast. It’s the 3.6 , supercharged, jail broken tuned ecu, flowmaster exhaust etc…. I’m not a Chrysler person but it’s stupid reliable and quicker then 90% of suvs and still a champ off road.
The best part of owning a $110K Jeep GRAND Wagoneer is when you take it in for service and stand next to Compass Tanya as she speed runs the first Four Stages of Grief after discovering what an oil light is.
Oh wow, I had an experience like this with a girl at the rental car company where I worked. She was there to rent a car after her Subaru Impreza grenaded and was whining to me, a total stranger with no involvement in her situation, about how "uNFaiR" it was because "nObodY tOLd mE thAT I hAve to chANGe tHe oiL". I was truly stunned. I would have felt bad for her if she hadn't begun our interaction with snobby remarks about local taste in automobiles. Instead I just felt bad for her Subaru. Poor little ru did nothing wrong 😢
Grand Wagoneer: the official car of putting "GRAND" in all caps to make yourself feel better about spending $110,000 on a _Jeep._ $110k for something from FCA? Seriously?
Couldn’t believe when you said the shifter feels lighter than the Kia Soul one. I’ve driven them manual a handful of times and each one felt like those old blank 4 speed shifters on the Nascar arcade cabinets that have seen better days
This is the perfect description of how the non-Wrangler Jeep shifters feel. I worked at a Jeep dealer 6 years ago & I once drove a manual Renegade. It felt as lousy and loose as an arcade gearshift!
But it doesn't say Jeep on the front. And that's important to the idiots. It's the same people that buy a base chevy equinox instead of said forester. "bECAuSe mY sTEp-DaDs roOMmaTeS' bRoThER lOSt hiS joB aT nEW pRoCEsS GeaR. GM iS mY hEriTaGE"
So my wife wanted a first new car and this is what we settled on. Paid 23k and change out the door. It was good for what it was. Took it to disney (8.5 hr drive) and it wasnt terrible. Got decent mpg. Had it for almost 2 yrs and put 13k miles on it. Sold it to carvana for what we paid for it during the covid used car peak. It was a W for us heheh.
"settled on" "for what it was" "wasn't terrible" "decent" All in the lexicon of a copium addict. I'm glad you were able to get your money back, but it seems like you could've had a better experience with the right used car.
Knew a girl who owned one of these, who was able to confidently back into every parking spot, every time. That’s about the most memorable thing, I can say about the Jeep Compass. She also had a badonk-adonk.
My dad bought one of these brand new in 2015, with the 5speed. He genuinely loves the thing. I drove it once to pick him up from the hospital (nothing serious), and the shifter felt like it legitimately had *no* gears at all.
Last I cared about FCA SUVs, they gutted it's platform-mate, the dodge journey, to the point where you could only get front wheel drive and a 2 decade old 4 speed automatic
@@iceman5117 The Journey had NOTHING in common with the Compass, are you serious? It was half minivan. And if you cared about them its because of your low credit score, since that's who it was marketed to.
@@TakuroSpirit77 If he had a low credit score he would have a Mitsubishi out lander, and people can like whatever cars they like. I mean, i like the Nissan Juke.
God I had one of these as a rental car in California and was amazed at its ability to be simultaneously completely gutless AND get bad gas mileage, like 20 MPG at most in a state with expensive ass gasoline. Stepping on the accelerator was always a complete crapshoot, I swear the thing was sometimes extremely sensitive and other times just completely non-existent. It was like sending a pleading text message to the engine to PLEASE get things moving and almost always being disappointed. It drove like a big car even though it isn't one, in all the worst ways.
It's got to be a FCA/Stellantis/Whatever they're calling themselves this week thing. I have a Chrysler Pacifica as a rental as my Subie gets repaired after a collision, and that car is weird in all the wrong ways -- 1. The Gas pedal is dead for at least an inch or so if you want to get the transmission to kickdown, and then it just defaults to some mystery gear (because no gear display) that revs the motor up to 3000+ rpm no matter if you're doing 70 on the interstate or 30 on residential streets. 2. Traction Control is a mere suggestion, it exists merely to check a box on a list but does absolutely nothing - it spins the front wheels in a heartbeat. I am using the FWD model so I can't speak for the AWD model, but dear god this thing will kill somebody on icy winter days. I get it, it's fun to spin tires in a Charger or Challenger, but this is a family hauler. Are they using the same computers for both cars? 3. To be fair, the V6 is actually decent - the car gets up to 80mph pretty quickly, but it will suck the tank dry. 15-17 mpg is what i'm getting. 4. The Adaptive Cruise Control is modeled after the brain patterns of a NYC cab driver - it brakes hard, accelerates hard, and feels totally unpredictable. 5. Mystery shudders, bumps, jerks and noises seem to be a standard feature.
I had one as a rental and when it would do the auto shutoff at a stop light, sometimes it wouldn't turn back on for like 3 seconds after you let off the brake
It is amazing just how many new cars make my old cavalier i used to have look like a solid car. Not because of even worse build quality, but just because new cars have nothing to them.
So glad that I bought a Crosstrek 6MT instead of one of these a few years ago. Way better built, better AWD system, better driving transmission, and better colors available with the yellow & orange & baby blue that's been available.
The irony is that the Subaru (I'm assuming you mean the Subaru Crosstrek, idk if there are any other Crosstreks where you live) is better off-road than the Jeep, even though it doesn't pretend to be an off-road focused car.
I worked for CarMax for a little over 2 1/2 years as a Non-Commission salesperson. And there were definitely a few cars I absolutely attempted to talk anyone out of. 2014 Equinox's, cvt altimas, and yes THE JEEP COMPASS OF THIS GENERATION
@HoneyBakedHam don't get me wrong, any crossover with a manual is going to be years ahead of an automatic to me, but companies need to try a bit harder, especially a brand known for offroading and niche market. Like if Mazda created a sports car with tuned suspension and it has torsion bars in front and track bar in the rear.
@@iceman5117 😂 nah, I really do. The only gripes I have are the ones that are obvious, like it’s a manual and still not as fuel efficient as my Chevy Spark or having a nephew that I watch few times a week makes it hard to fit him AND my half door uppers in the back when I have the top down (2-door Jeep, real Jeep)
The old hot-hatch version was even sold by Fiat here in italy (rebadges in exchange of the diesel engines), and even after at least 10 years since the end of production, a lot of them go around on the northen mountains even today, awesome cars. But here even the old MK1 Fiat Panda 4x4 is still used and kicks butt off-road (and I got myself one of them, a goddamn lilliputian tank)
@@michelefarroni93 the SX4 is an awesome little car. They're incredibly reliable as long as you get the j20b motor and not the j20a. (2011 cutoff I think?) Mine had 220k miles on it when I sadly bumped someone at an intersection just hard enough to pop the airbags. They aren't available new anymore and I wasn't comfortable with junkyard pulls so I sold it for basically scrap price. It was otherwise completely undamaged. That thing was a mountain goat when you locked up the center diff. A total hoot in the snow. I also added a trailer hitch to it and I could haul little rental trailers around and it did an awesome job at that as well picking up bigger tools I bought or building materials that wouldn't fit inside. I managed to fit a 60" DLP rear projection screen inside it with the rear seats folded. Truly the "Little Engine that Could" of hatchbacks.
My parents had a 2018 Compass base model. It wasn’t a good car but it was well worth the $22k price tag. They traded in for a 2022 Toyota RAV4 and haven’t looked back.
Here in Brazil this thing sells like hot cakes. The Jeep brand in general is really successful around here, mostly because of the renegade and the compass. I think they both were designed with a bigger focus on developing markets than on the US, hence the failure there and success here.
That was BRUTAL! I really hope that wasn't a fan's car. Definitely not the vehicle I would chose for myself. But I instantly have more respect for anything that has a manual transmission, and for any manufacturer willing to pair a manual transmission with one of their higher trim levels.
Truthfully, if I owned a car that was a total POS, I'd love to have RCR drive it and roast it. I'm pretty sure fans who offer up their cars for review know full well what they're getting into.
@@michaelfjmusic I've def seen people lend him "beater" cars, but this one looked like the owner kept it as nice as possible. Hopefully he knew what he was getting himself into.
I have found Jeep Compasses to be the vehicles that most often rapidly speed towards a red light in urban settings. In suburban settings, they'll pull out in front of you, drive slow, and then speed up when you go to pass in the left lane.
I lost it at "I heard Tommy Fenstamacher kicked a dude in the front keister so hard the doctor said even his grandkids won't be able to have children."
Honestly one of favorite outro covers yet, sparks is a simple but under looked track, just as most of Coldplay is under looked for it's pop perception. But Parachute was probably their #2 album
Okay lemme drop my list: 1 A Rush of Blood to the Head 2 Viva la Vida Deluxe edition/ Parachute 3 X & Y 4 Mylo Xyloto 5 Head full of dreams (although this was their unironic pop embrace)
Parachutes is an all-time album to me, and I was on a pretty big kick with listening to this song, so that's why I chose it for the outro, even though it probably would have been smarter to do it for the Chevy Spark review.😅
Thats something you learn pretty quickly when you drive cars for a living " Disapointment is a renewable resource". Man i resonated with that so much lol.
6:42 this is an excellent Moleman. Not trying for a pitch-perfect impersonation, but instead deftly capturing the agonizing pain in which he lives every day.
I loved that improvised conversation between the ditzy girl and the neferious salesman at the start. 😅 That's exactly how I imagine most of these were sold. Wrangler dreams being slowly diminished.
I love how accurate this review is, and I have not even driven the 2018 version. Also I love that this compass is worse in every way than my 04 stratus. The stratus even had a jeep branded jack kit.
"It's an airport rental for the bottomless bloody mary crowd." You're so accurate and savage. Like a verbal sniper handing out medulla oblongata headshots from your position a quater mile away up a tree. Thank you for your service, Mr. Regular.
It’s pretty sad when I’d take a hunk of junk like this over half the cars on the road today. One of the best reviews you’ve done, it’s a sad truth that too many people have no clue what they’re buying other than “a car”.
