IS the 2024 Jeep Compass Trailhawk a MINI WRANGLER?

[@The1320warrior]

I own both and can honestly say i would rather drive the compass every day. Waaaay more comfortable and livable compared to the wrangler considering 90 percent of wrangler owners will never even take them offroad i use both off-road and both are more then capable for any real life scenario

[@JigsawSamurai-u2i]

Hey . Just curious, i recently bought a compass trailhawk 2024. Are all 2024 trailhawk have a panoramic sunroof? Or it’s just mine don’t have 🤷

[@XxnamethestarsxX]

@@JigsawSamurai-u2i it all depends on the package that comes with the vehicle. The dual panoramic sunroof will add roughly $3,300 to the MSRP. 😅

[@JigsawSamurai-u2i]

@@XxnamethestarsxX hey thanks for the reply. Coz i just noticed that mine doesn’t have one. So was just searching youtube and google mostly they are showing most panoramic sunroof. I just got mine today Oct. 6, 2024 date of purchase. Lol.

[@XxnamethestarsxX]

@@JigsawSamurai-u2i No problem! You’ll see a lot of Trailhawk Elite packages featured on KZbin because they have all the fancy specs, which will be more appealing to customers. I just bought mine on 10/04-it’s a base model with no sunroof, no remote start, no heated seats, etc. I honestly thought I’d want all the extra luxury features, but I’m quite happy with it just the way it is! Hope you enjoy your new Trailhawk, ride safe! ❤️🖤

[@The1320warrior]

@@JigsawSamurai-u2i no i don’t think so my compass doesn’t have one either

[@Turshin]

Great review

[@MontanaMedic13]

These are not worth it as a new vehicle but thanks to massive depreciation they make great used Jeeps. They are better off road than almost any other vehicle in their class and they get decent gas milage and are comfortable. You can easily pick one up for about 20K.

[@B86432]

43k is insane it's a 30k vehicle

[@Ktheodoss]

I like it. Nice car. Too expensive.

[@midnitesilverrun8631]

While capable they are in no way even close to a mini Jeep wrangler.

[@mackdeen7021]

It’s as close as you can get. Name another car sold in the U.S. for that price range and 2,4 engine. Yeah it’s bot a wrangler…he even says so in the end. Did you listen!???? but mini wrangler has its wheels meaning. Relax. . This car did way better than I thought.

[@timeversman9804]

It has the trail rated badge lol. Its not a wrangler so why say that.

[@sgtpepperz25]

NO, it isn't even close.

[@mackdeen7021]

For price, gas mileage, engine size, etc this car looks to about as close to a wrangler as possible . Tell which smaller SUv in America can do what this car does with 4 cylinders . You can’t. We need more cars like this in Murika. 😮😂😅

[@Tbobelak]

The jeep compass is not an off-road vehicle. NO skid plates, no true 4 wheel low. Just locks you in first gear. This is a joke to compare it to a wrangler

[@steved4538]

it has skid plates

[@veganpotterthevegan]

It has ski plates and it's not like every Wrangler has skid plates.

[@jerroldshelton9367]

The Trailhawk trim on the Compass includes skid plates. They're not just for show. They're heavy-duty I has true low four-wheel drive gearing, too. First Gear: 4.33:1 final drive X 4.7 gear ratio X 2:1 - 1:1 torque converter multiplication equals 40.70:1 to 20.35:1 Second Gear: 4.33:1 final drive X 2.84 gear ratio X 2:1 -1:1 torque converter multiplication equals 24.59:1 to 12.297:1 That's on par with every body-on-frame, part-time 4X4 with a two-speed transfer case and a 3 or 4 speed hydraulic automatic transmission sold in the U.S.A. from the 1970s to the 2000s. I'll use the first-generation Bronco I used to own as an example. 1973 Ford Bronco: 3.50 ring and pinion X 2.42 first gear X 2.42 low range X 2:1 to 1:1 torque converter multiplication = 40.99:1 to 20.497:1 with C-4 auto in first gear. In it's 1.52 second gear, it torque multiplication range is 25.7488:1 to 12.8744:1. In most off-pavement on trails, I'd have the transfer case in low range and the C-4 automatic in second gear and reserve first gear for the most technically demanding sections. As you can see, the difference in gearing between the traditional part-time transfer case and Jeep Active Drive II with the former in low range and first and second gear and the latter just using first and second is NOT significant enough to matter. Or, we could compare with the TJ Wrangler I owned for 11 years. Mine was four-cylinder, five-speed manual, full doors, a/c, soft top, and 4.11 gears with factory limited slip in it's D-35. I ran 31 x 10.50-15's on it. 4.11 final drive X 3.91 first gear in AX-5 manual X 2.73 low range equals 43.93:1 in first gear, but since I was turning a 30.5" tall tire and not a 29" tire like I do on my 2015 Renegade Trailhawk, the difference twixt the twin isn't enough to notice or matter. In low range and 2.33 second gear, my Wrangler was 26.14:1. In low range and thrid, it was 16.157:1. In essence, my Renegade Trailhawk's gearing in first and second covers the same range as low range first, second, and third in my Wrangler did and you couldn't get factory gearing lower than that in a manual trans Wrangler in 1998. The Wrangler unquestionably has a bigger off-pavement performance envelope than a Trailhawk Compass does. I did the Rubicon Trail in my Wrangler, as I described it, at least a half-dozen times, with all but one of them having my M-416 military cargo trailer in tow. As good an "off roader" as the Wrangler was, it sucked as an upland game bird and fly fishing vehicle, and more than just a little bit. I wouldn't have kept it as long as I did if not for having that M-416 of mine. For as big as a TJ is on the outside, it has the same nearly useless cargo volume as my CJ-2A does. I learned how to drive in an uncle's Willys MB on the Rubicon Trail when I was nine. Before WW2, that uncle of mine used to do the Rubicon Trail in a '32 Plymouth sedan. It was a maintained dirt county road then. It stopped being maintained after WW3 started. That uncle got his surplus Willys MB in 1952 after serving as an aerial gunnery instructor during the Korean War. By then, after 11 years of no maintenance, you needed a Jeep to get where you wanted to go on the Rubicon McKinney Road. A Willys MB in compound low is 25:1 in stock form. It's like driving the TJ I had in low range and second gear, but without an even lower gear to get into. The Rubicon was nothing special to me when I was a kid. It was just another unmaintained Jeep trail leading to hunting and fishing spots. It was longer than most, at around 20 miles, but the Dusy-Ershim near Shaver Lake was, to me, far more technically demanding while also being about 10 miles longer. My uncle with the MB didn''t run the Rubicon for the sake of running it. He used it to get where he wanted to go in order to do something besides get his kidneys pounded to a pulp in a Jeep all day long. He was a hunter and a fly fisher. What he wasn't was an "off roader." The overwhelming majority of open, legal routes on U.S. Forest Service and BLM land are NOT California's Rubicon or Dusy Ershim. They're like 21S36 in the Inyo National Forest -a 33.6 mile long "there and back" trail to the South Fork of the Kern River where I like to go fly fishing for golden trout on the tamer side (easier in the Samurai I bought new in '86 but doable in the Baja Bug that was my first car before buying the Samurai new) to something like FS 510.1 Slaughterhouse Gulch Loop in the Pike National Forest near Bailey, Colorado, where I like to go turkey hunting. You definitely don't need a Wrangler for the Monache Meadows trail. A Compass Trailhawk would be more than enough, capability wise. A skilled, experienced driver could do Slaughterhouse Gulch, or thousands of trails like it, in a bone-stock compass. Somewhere between on or between those examples is what most legal, open routes on U.S. Forest Service or BLM land are like. For every Dusy-Ershim, there's probably 1,000 trails like Slaughterhouse Gulch and even more that are less technical than that. If I still had my TJ and went to camp out at Monache Meadow to fly fish the South Fork of the Kern for four days, I'd have to tow my M-416 with me in order to have the cargo capacity for camping gear and fly fishing crap. Not so with my Renegade, which is about the same size on the outside, but has a whole lot more useful room on the inside. There are about 1,500 miles of Interstate between me an the Black Rock Ranger Station near the trailhead. Over 300 of them are in California, where you're not supposed to exceed 55 mph while towing a trailer. Cost-wise, getting to and from that destination in my Wrangler that I used to have would be double because it would literally take me twice the amount of gasoline to do the trip in that Wrangler as it takes to do it in my Renegade Trailhawk, which is just a shorter-wheelbase Compass. And the point of this exercise isn't to "play in the dirt" in a Tonka Toy for grown-ups. It's to catch golden trout on my fly rod. If there was an easier way to get there, I'd take it. If the one-way in, one way out way to get there was harder than it is, I'd still take it. If it was so damn difficult that my Renegade couldn't hack it, I'd take my CJ-2A, instead. But my CJ-2A hasn't seen dirt for over five years now. I'm on some kind of unmaintained dirt road or trail three weekends out of the month, typically, so the reason why my REAL JEEP stays parked isn't because I'm not out there hunting in the fall and winter and fly fishing in the spring and summer. It's because my Renegade Trailhawk has no trouble getting me where I want to go and getting me home again while being far more comfortable, getting up to 30 mpg on the highway, and having interior room for my camping and hunting and fishing shit. If my Renegade needed replacing tomorrow, I'd be down at my Jeep store replacing it with a Compass Trailhawk, since I can no longer replace it with another Renegade. Threadding a four-door JL through pinions on a trail originally blazed in a surplus MB or GPW with an 80" wheelbase and 49" track woulldn't be my idea of fun. So, yeah, the comparison is valid.

[@maxr4448]

OUTRAGEOUS amount of money.... CRAZY