Jeep Compass SUV

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Apparently, people don't like change. But it has worked quite well for Jeep.

After all, at the heart of every Jeep is a big engine, all-wheel drive and lots of off-road ruggedness. And that’s a problem when electrification is already here.

Yet the Jeep Avenger’s popularity has gone through the roof since it was launched as an all-electric, front-wheel drive car in 2022. Around a year later, Jeep had sold about 40,000 of them.

But, in the two years since, it sold four times that amount – helped by winning European Car of the Year in 2023.

Now, the Compass is hoping to repeat the feat with a new third-generation model.

Like the Avenger, it’s now available as an all-electric model for the first time, and also available with front-wheel drive.

It is, though, still available with all-wheel drive and a combustion engine, albeit in plug-in hybrid form.

Like the Avenger, it’s based on a platform from parent company Stellantis, which also underpins the likes of the Citroën e-C5 Aircross and the Vauxhall Grandland Electric.