New Jeep Compass revealed in Brazil – should be a new Jeep model for the UK

A new Jeep Compass has been revealed in Brazil ahead of a public debut at the Los Angeles Motor Show. The Compass is expected to hit the UK in 2017.

Jeep’s offerings have become more credible for UK and European tastes in recent years, and it looks likely that this new Jeep – the 2017 Jeep Compass – will be added to the UK range in 2017.

Revealed in Brazil as Jeep opened a new production plant in Goiana, the Compass is a model which fits in to the Jeep range between the Renegade and Cherokee, and as such is a prefect fit for the UK and Europe.

With looks that seem to owe their inspiration to the Grand Cherokee more than anything else in the Jeep range, the Compass looks like a Jeep with intent rather than an urban crossover with pretensions.

Under the bonnet, when the new Jeep Compass reaches the UK, is likely to be a diesel powerplant, but Jeep are boasting it will be available with 17 different powertrain options to fill the needs and wants of buyers in more than 100 countries round the world. A properly global Compass.

Jeep are claiming the new Compass will be the most capable compact SUV ever (some claim) and that it will come with a host of technology, impressive on-road dynamics and open-air freedom. Although we’ll be astonished if open-air freedom means a Compass Convertible. But it could, certainly with a precedent set with the Range Rover Evoque Convertible.

The new Jeep Compass will be on sale in the US at the start of 2017 – after its public debut at the Los Angeles Motor Show in November, and will arrive in the UK and Europe in the second half of 2017.