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Driving the ‘Baby Grand’

This is good. Jeep's all-new Compass not only looks the business, it does the business.

Though unashamedly urbanoriented, the Compass fulfills the needs of a wide range of prospective buyers with lashings of tech and safety and a multi-mode transmission that includes a lock function and electronically-activated ‘low range’.

Competition in the wider SUV sector is as stiff as ever though, and with the Compass wading into premium territory buyers can easily compare the fresh offering with existing rivals.

To be clear, while the ‘industry’ may class the Compass as a small SUV, the Compass is definitely ‘small to medium’ with a heavy emphasis on the medium. Family-sized and mission-capable.

The road presence of this SUV is emphatically 2022, future-compatible into

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