Jeep Compass Launch Date Announced; Expected Price, Features, And More

Confirming our earlier reports, FCA India today announced the launch date for its long-awaited mid-size SUV - the Jeep Compass. Slated to be launched soon, the car will be the most affordable offering from the American SUV manufacturer and also its first Made-In-India model yet. Though globally the SUV replaces the previous Jeep Compass and Jeep Patriot, essentially it is an all-new product in all sense and we have told you that in our first drive review of the US-spec model. We even got to drive the India-spec version last month and we have to say both the versions of the Compass are very similar to each other in terms of feature offerings.

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The India-spec Jeep Compass is being manufactured at the company's Ranjangaon plant near Pune, Maharashtra. Interestingly, the plant will cater to both the domestic market as well as other right-hand-drive markets like - Australia, UK and Japan, where the Jeep Compass will be exported from India. Jeep India has already started accepting bookings for the Compass for a token of Rs. 50,000 and response from its customers has been very positive.

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Under the hood, the Jeep Compass offers both petrol and diesel engine options - a 1.4-litre 4-cylinder turbocharged petrol and a 2-litre 4-cylinder turbocharged diesel motor. In terms of power, the petrol engine makes over 160 bhp and develops 260 Nm of peak torque, while the oil burner churns out over 170 bhp and 350 Nm of peak torque. Transmission duties are handled by a 6-speed manual unit and an optional 7-speed automatic gearbox. The oil burner is an all-new engine developed by Fiat and the company has announced that it will be sourcing it to other car manufacturers as well.

Jeep Compass SUV borrows its styling cues from the Grand Cherokee

The Compass will be made available in three trims - Sport, Longitude and the Limited and customers will have a choice of five colours Minimal Grey, Exotica Red, Hydro Blue, Vocal White and Hip Hop Black as well as options in 4x2 and 4x4. In terms of pricing, we believe that the Jeep Compass will come with a starting price below the Rs. 20 lakh mark, especially considering the tax benefits that SUVs get now post GST implementation. Having said that we did take a Twitter poll earlier today and the reactions we got from Twitterati was very interesting. You may visit the poll tweet to see the reactions.

The much awaited @JeepIndia #Compass launches on Monday, July 31 (https://t.co/2ZSt5Rq50M) What is the realistic price expectation you have?

— carandbike (@carandbike) July 26, 2017

Upon its launch, the Jeep Compass will rival the likes of the Hyundai Tucson and the Honda CR-V along with other models like the Mahindra XUV500 and the upcoming Renault Kapture.