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.
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.
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*
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."
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
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!"
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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"
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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)
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
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.
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.
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.
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."
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 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.
"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.
At least the jeep's a nice color. It's getting hard to find good blues these days, they've mostly gone to darker shades, or have been removed entirely. We've mostly been without greens since the 90's.
Right? Why are car makers so allergic to colours these days? Everything is grey, black and silver. Green is such a great colour too. I miss cheery 90’s colours.
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 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.
I was pondering over where have things gone so bad for Jeep over the last Cherokee Laredo review and what struck me was that maybe, what actually happened is that the outliers where the good Jeep of yesteryears, and Jeep has gone "make it until you can fake it".
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.
This is great!! So funny. Even funnier is I did the Jericho Mtn Jeep badge of honor trail in a lifted Volvo XC90. Had to steal a vin from a bone stock liberty parked nearby. The badge of honor app won’t acknowledge or track you unless it’s a Jeep. It’ll show up on their carfax but wouldn’t that up the gnar value??😂
The jeep compass is the kind of car that shows up to go offroading only to get outdone by an 06 Pontiac vibe that got lost and took a wrong turn. Also why do you have to call me out like that? XD
I don't think I have ever been called out more in a Regular Car Reviews video. As a former CJDR salesman that lives in Cincinnati, I promise that I didn't laugh maniacally when I sold every Compass. My wife actually purchased one when rebates were high and was able to get out of a dart with $8,000 negative equity. Eventually we sold it to Carvanna durning the pandemic used car boom and made $5,000 back. I do laugh manically when I see all the cool people come to Cincinnati, our Cincy style chili is good, and our German food is even better.
@@b22chrisI moved away from Ohio years ago and Skyline is the only thing I really miss about it. I still get the cans sent to me sometimes but it isn't the same
This one hit home - probably can tell a Xavier grad here and lived in Cincinnati for years. Philly is my hometown. Cheesesteak is better than Cincinnati chili. Goetta is better than scrapple. And Tastykakes rule all.
The “Trail Rated” badge is the Jeep participation trophy.
There’s no trail rated badge on this Compass 😂
@@Clofton no but mr.regular talks about it
“Trail” is code word for “parking lot” at jeep headquarters.
@@augustortiz And it still needed a tow truck to get out.
@@CloftonDidn't even try to participate... 😂
The fact the average non-car person thinks jeep doesn’t make steaming piles of shit is a true testament to their marketing department
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.
Expensive steaming piles of shit
@@rolanddeschain6265 god 4Runners are junk no offense they can’t handle a beating 😂
The emergence of the Jeep salesman has to be one of the most terrifying yet arousing instances in Rcr history
The salesman is friggen hilarious. Sounds like a prohibition era mobster, see.
@@SunnynPhilly Imagine if Gollum found his true calling selling shitty Jeeps at a 25% markup.
reminds me of a cartoon villain tying someone to railroad tracks.
It sounds like the coked up Dodge CEO's cousin
Snidely Whiplash indeed !!!!
a FANTASTIC review… too damn accurate 👍
Especially that millennial shriek at the beginning 😹
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.
the most surprising part of this review is the notion that Jeep has any dignity left at all
They sold it long ago after announcing the Commander.
@@josephj.6478 commander is way better than any of the rebadged Fiat 500 jeeps
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.
LEAVE MY PRECIOUS JEEP ALONE! As long as the Trackhawk exists, they get a pass.
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*
As bad as it is, the Renagade is still worse.
Renegade go above 65 MPH challenge (impossible)
My girlfriend just bought a renegade 🤦
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.
@@JudyDaCherry my mom has one 😬
In terms of actually being a jeep yes.
In terms of build quality and reliability perhaps.
In terms of being a practical daily I don't think so.
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."
I could FEEL how lethargic that engine was just by watching the video.
That poor chipmunk in his hamster wheel...
I have a 2020 automatic (wasn't my choice). Getting on the interstate with it is a nightmare. I almost feel like the video doesn't do it justice.
They finally replaced it with a new one thats better
I have the 1.4 multi air in my 500, it's not fast but in the bonefide go-kart that is the 500, it's fun in the city
@@TheMajorLeagueGinger That makes sense though, the 500 is 2WD and probably much lighter than the Compass. Better whp/weight ratio.
Having worked as a receptionist at a car dealer, they all are like this. Only profession that should be trusted less than lawyers
Politicians are the worst then car sales men 😅
Mechanics are sketchy af too
@@juanfo7307 maybe if you’re special and go to jiffy lube with your moms cayenne
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
It's 95% of lawyers and car salesmen that give the other 5% a bad name.
Someday we want Tommy Fencetamacher as a special guest.
He's hiding in Philly, but claims to be in Cincinnati in order to dodge child support payments.
i heard this comment made him *bust*
I heard Tommy Fencetamacher can't enter his own apartment until somebody invites him to, and he lives alone.
Tommy Fencetemacher tried to get a dealer job at Kunkleman Chevrolet by telling them he put all his stats into his charisma skill tree.
I heard Tommy Fenstermacher's desktop wallpaper is 2 Girls, 1 Cup.
"Disappointment is a renewable resource." I felt that.
You get an A+ for that evil salesman laugh.
I just want a 10 hour version of Mr. Regular's diabolical laughter
agreed 😆
Gollum the sales hobbit
Like an evil beavis
Dude me too brother
@@markoz673bajen8 or a vorcha
This is what happens when a Grand Cherokee mates with a Fiat 500L. You get this monstrosity.
That's funny, like either of those could successfully mate without falling apart in the process.
I was thinking that would've been the Renegade...but this kinda tracks too tbh.
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.
The Grand Cherokee went slumming in college.
500L wasnt like... asthmatic. But it started to smell like rubber burning after trying to TOUGE it
That cold open is one of the best you've had in years, and isn't even an exaggeration of how Compass owners came to be!
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!"
HAHA I haven't heard that one before, that's gold!!
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?
She was cut off from the Trust Fund after her questionable activities
@@gilbertosantos2806 "questionable activities"=curb bumbing with every park and leaving her car's paint smeared on the corner of every Circle K in town.
She had the benz in hs. She's 24 now and her bf has neck tats and he sold the benz for crqck
@@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.
@juanfo7307 From the classic Altima review - does her boyfriend own a billboard?
Jeep today is like a band who had a string of hits in the 70's, but today plays at the Arkansas state fair. Revered by name, ignorable by reputation.
"On the main stage...TOTO!!!"
@@aaronswink8554 Wrong decade. More like "You want the best?!?! You got the best!!!! KISS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Jeep Oak Arkansas
Jeep had 2wd vehicles since the 40's even in the 70's...Jeep was never just hard core off road! People need to be educated on vehicles!
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.
I always love watching Matt's off-road recovery when he has to pull one of these out of a sand dune.
The Oldsmobile Bravada salesman is back at it again 😂
Dude you're becoming a legit voice actor.
Having known the guy for 15 years now, I'm STILL surprised to hear new depths to his range.
@@LimitedTimeRoman SUP ROMAN
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
Lol I've driven a manual Soul too and that's the best description of it. Literally zero feel, a video game.
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!
I've driven a 6MT Veloster and the shifter reminds me of exactly that, at least compared to my 6MT B17 Sentra.
My girlfriend drives a 2014 jeep compass. I like to pretend I'm not unemployed, but you're right RCR 😢
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.
I don't think I've met a woman who backs up into parking spaces.
Tactical parking and a phat azz…
I’m in love❤️
@@myopiniongoodyouropinionbad skill issue
@@myopiniongoodyouropinionbadand that's the car. Must be an expert
the bigger the badonkadonk the harder they badonkadonk into another car while parking
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 😢
I too own an expensive suv and spend my days letting people in the comment section know about it.
@@wildmikefilms What en established gentleman, my hats off to you! :)
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?
@@tyttuut people have been giving lots of their money to Chrysler for decades.
but yeah thats a lot for a jeep lmao
That same year you could have bought a Forester 6mt for 25k. And have decent acceleration
And better build quality. And a better interior. And better reliability. And better pretty much everything. Jeeps are trash.
Could probably even go with an xv even
And you won't look like a Karen or Kevin. There was a Reason I went for a Subaru.
I got a 2014 6mt Forester, love it
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"
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.
try driving a corolla 1.8L........something I wouldn't wish on even my worst enemy
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
One time in high school, this Jeep girl asked me if it was bad that she accidentally put her wrangler (automatic) in 2nd on the freeway by accident.
You got the stereotypes so right on this one 😆
i didnt even know that you could get a manual compass
you could... until 2 or 3 years ago
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.
@@iceman5117 nearly 4, 40tes based on the 3 speed!
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.
“He’s in the parking lot giving himself cauliflower ear with channel locks” absolutely brilliant writing guys.
And this is the good Jeep Compass. Get a Cerebus Era 2007-2009 Jeep Compass (or better yet a 2007-2009 Jeep Patriot) to experience true pain.
Yeah, those 1st-gen Compasses were shit. They were nothing more than a Dodge Caliber with a seven-slot grille.
The Tommy Fenstamanchor bit was hilarious.
I was sold at the very start with Tanya and the comically evil salesman
I've been waiting for them to bring that back from the Avalon vid!
He drinks prescription milk!
Laughed even more than on his last appearance on the channel 😂
lost it at "remedial lunch" lmao
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.
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.
Ahh yes the Compass. Or as I like to call it, the Dumpass.
I had a customer that brought his in to the shop and on the doors it just said ass 🤣
Jeep Cum-Piss
Jeep: Let's build a manual SUV for enthusiasts!
Enthusiasts: No.
I don’t know, I like my 6-speed Wrangler.
@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.
@@HoneyBakedHam7 no you don't. That's the Stockholm syndrome speaking
@@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)
@@HoneyBakedHam7 sounds like cope to me. Cars aren't supposed to deafen you on the highway when you have the windows up.
The real jeep driving past the fiat during the outro song was like poetry. Great work.
After buying a brand new Toyota GR corolla, I can confirm this is how new car salesman are
Funny enough, this is exactly what happened to my father. Went in to the dealer wanting to purchase a Wrangler and walked out with a Compass.
here my dumb ass thought your father slipped at a walmart and sued for 7 figures
Oof😅
Elder abuse is accurate
My condolences.
Rip
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.
The Crosstrek is legitimately a great little car. Easily best in class. And based on videos, the Crosstrek can actually hold its own off-road.
And it's not any less usa built.
Yep my brother has a bright blue 2018 5MT and it's like an Impreza Hatch with a factory lift kit...the all wheel drive is very capable.
Sad that they took the manual of the Crosstrek for the 2023 or 2024 model :(
God you are so right about Cincinnati. Like what the hell even is "chili spaghetti" but a synonym for a disappointing bargain.
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
Anything with that 3.6l gm v6 in that era...
Suzuki SX4 6MT still best cheap AWD car. Too bad parts are getting hard to get.
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.
Out of everything I was expecting from this review, the return of Tommy Fenstamacher was definitely not what I was expecting. 😂
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.
Well, it is a FIAT, so that makes sense.
Well good for them down there. Maybe they shouldn't have released it here in the US
“Disappointment is a Renewable resource…”
🤣🤣🤣
OMG please do more of the 'dealership people' voices, it's a great segment.
I remember testing a brand new. The transmission overheated in a muddy road.
I want more of Tanya and the evil used car salesman lmao.
Tanya lost her GLK350 and gets conned by the evil salesman from the Bravada video. My entire life has been made. 🤣
Sending this to my girlfriend, a self-proclaimed “Jeep girl” as she drives her Nissan Sentra with one headlight.
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.
That's what happens. BANK toyota
Dude the opening dialogue was a masterpiece.
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.
You’ve described the majority of PA drivers.
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."
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.
If I had a shame kink and an entry level Chrysler product, I would definitely submit it to RCR
If he ever reviews my 2014 Sentra 6MT, no matter what he'll say about it, I'll view it as a badge of honor.
I absolutely lost it when I heard "remedial lunch." Holy crap, that was so funny.
I heard that Tommy Fenstamacher said something halfway smart the other day and it started a bunch of rumors 😅
I heard Tommy Fenstamacher worked at Kunkleman CDRJ as a detailer for week, until they found out he would bust and wax the car with......
What a timely review. I just rented one of these from the airport. Your review is spot on. It's...transportation.
The owner said you need better pull-out game for smoothness 😂…on the brighter side, it’s a manual!
I'm sure these jokes write themselves when you drive a come-piss.
It feels no matter how consistently awful these products are there are always going to be customers willing to pay for them.
Roundabout way of saying you can’t fix stupid.
I love how this channel duals as a honest/satire car review channel as much as it duals as a Pennsylvanian Roast.
The "Tommy Fenstamacher" skit is too funny.
It's been soooooooooo long since I've heard the good-ol' salesman from the Bravada gig 😃
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.
me when i hear tommy fenstamacher: RETURN OF THE KING
Those Tommy Fenstamacher skits are fucking hilarious
God damn, Roman comin in hot with those harmonies.
Everytime RCR Intros are just out of space 🤣
Thats SO Ferengi-Style, oh my god i love it 🤣❤👽
Tommy Fenstamacher is a legend
Bro it's a cute manual tall station wagon. Designed for doing what Wranglers are actually used for: driving on paved roads. Jeep absolutely nailed it
That unhinged Ferengi impression was perfect.
This guy goes further off the deep end with every year that goes by and I'm here for it.
I feel like you were channeling your inner Gilbert Gottfreid with the car salesman
I smell a demon. Screwtape showing Wormwood how to move units.
Ol' Gott Fried, himself.
you described so many people i know this is actually scary. protect Mr Regular at all costs
"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.
Jeep Compass: The official car of entry-level splurging
Somehow a decade after this replaced the Patriot....it's still amazingly awful
Best intro by far, nothing will beat it!
At least the jeep's a nice color. It's getting hard to find good blues these days, they've mostly gone to darker shades, or have been removed entirely. We've mostly been without greens since the 90's.
Right? Why are car makers so allergic to colours these days? Everything is grey, black and silver. Green is such a great colour too. I miss cheery 90’s colours.
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.
Great start to Monday as my kid wakes me up
Same and 2 puppies 😩
I think he meant Mr. Regular lol
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.
as a former FCA dealership mechanic this was by far the funniest episode in a while holy shit
Haven't heard the salesman this diabolical since he was selling the Oldsmobile Bravada
I was pondering over where have things gone so bad for Jeep over the last Cherokee Laredo review and what struck me was that maybe, what actually happened is that the outliers where the good Jeep of yesteryears, and Jeep has gone "make it until you can fake it".
as a former cars salesman that skit was 100 percent accurate lo
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.
This is the best and funniest RCR up to this point which is SAYING something. Great work im in stitches rn 💀💀
That laugh is beyond awesome
This is great!! So funny. Even funnier is I did the Jericho Mtn Jeep badge of honor trail in a lifted Volvo XC90. Had to steal a vin from a bone stock liberty parked nearby. The badge of honor app won’t acknowledge or track you unless it’s a Jeep. It’ll show up on their carfax but wouldn’t that up the gnar value??😂
I knew it, Mr. Regular is secretly a cartoon villain.
The Moleman got me. Was not expecting that.
The jeep compass is the kind of car that shows up to go offroading only to get outdone by an 06 Pontiac vibe that got lost and took a wrong turn.
Also why do you have to call me out like that? XD
I don't think I have ever been called out more in a Regular Car Reviews video. As a former CJDR salesman that lives in Cincinnati, I promise that I didn't laugh maniacally when I sold every Compass. My wife actually purchased one when rebates were high and was able to get out of a dart with $8,000 negative equity. Eventually we sold it to Carvanna durning the pandemic used car boom and made $5,000 back. I do laugh manically when I see all the cool people come to Cincinnati, our Cincy style chili is good, and our German food is even better.
Skyline > any Philly cheesesteak
@@b22chrisI moved away from Ohio years ago and Skyline is the only thing I really miss about it. I still get the cans sent to me sometimes but it isn't the same
Skyline and gold star are the tits. Nobody can ever tell me different.
This one hit home - probably can tell a Xavier grad here and lived in Cincinnati for years. Philly is my hometown. Cheesesteak is better than Cincinnati chili. Goetta is better than scrapple. And Tastykakes rule all.
18:10 love this Sparks cover Roman, I would actually love to hear the full version if it exist
"IM THE SALESMAN" made me spit water all over