2009 Jeep Compass Sport SUV Review

2009 Jeep Compass Sport 4x4 Review It’s the jeep that really isn’t one, an urbanized little grocery getter you probably shouldn’t take too far off the road. The 2009 Compass sport, so how’s the tech? You see inside the Compass its pretty boring, tech wise. This basic head unit is basic. AM/FM, single disc CD, plays MP3, Sirius satellite radio there, Aux Jack, you can option that up to get a unit with 6 and half inch touchscreen that will have a grace note CD database of 30 gig drive. No NAV though is available in any configuration, no iPod adapter you can get a DVD player in here with the upgraded head units. So you can watch movies on the screen while parked, but there’s no rear seat entertainment system available, and all the other sorts of tech that we’re starting to get used two these days, it doesn’t happen on a vehicle in this trim level. We do, however have an upgraded Bose in acoustics output systems, speaker and amps, 368 watts to the speakers plus another 90 dedicated to a sub, all in all it sounds fumpy. I wouldn’t call it elegant. A couple of clever tricks live here on the ass end of the Compass. First of all, flip down tailgate speakers. When you’re out there having a barbecue on the beach you can piss off everybody near you by blaring your music too loud. And the course, the sub is back here to help toward that mission as well. And check this out. You’ve got a detachable cargo light that’s actually a little flashlight, cute. We have the big engine in our Compass, a 2.4 liter 4 that does a 172 horsepower and 165 foot pounds of torque. On a two wheel drive Compass, you can even step down to a 2 liter 4 but we don’t recommend it. Even this larger engine just doesn’t feel like enough. True it delivers the pretty solid 2 /28 mpg but it should for the lack of sap it produces. Put some of the blame squarely on this, the optional CVT automatic gearbox. In drive, it’s a slippery devil. When you slap your own shifts out of it, things do tighten up a little but this Daimler, Mitsubishi Hyundai developed motor just seems ill at ease in this car no matter what you do. Get standard 5-speed manual, save some money and get little bit of spine in this thing. By the way the Compass is the only jeep that can be had as front wheel drive vehicle and the only one that never has a trail rated badge on it. Enough said. Let’s price out this little quasi jeep, whatever it is. So 23,600 we get you started. That’s with an e-package which includes a lot of the niceties that most of these come with. Then on top on that, you’re going to add 650 for you connect tunes. That’s an LCD-based, hard drive audios system with Bose acoustic, Bluetooth but no NAV. Another 1100 gets you CVT variable transmission, too variable my taste I’d skip it go with 5-speed manual and by the way the all wheel drive is 1750 more.