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Photo: KDesign AG / Behance
Do you know who’s the recall king of 2024? Well, we’re still trying to find out who gets this shady ‘honor’ because FoMoCo and FCA heavily dispute the crown.According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are on the verge of establishing an unwanted record – through the first half of August, they already have 41 recalls. That’s 41 for each, not together, which is more than double the third-placed BMW (!). At this rate, the Detroit brands will average more than one recall per each week of the year!
Anyway, while Ford is comfortably numb on top of the best-selling charts thanks to the eternal customer love for its F-Series and now also its Maverick unibody compact truck darling, Stellantis is running amok crying its outrage that its usual cash cow, the North American operations, are not running like clockwork anymore. That’s hardly a surprise when Ram ditched the Hemi V8, Dodge killed the L-bodied Charger and Challenger, and even Jeep started faltering.
To stop the hemorrhage, the latter, a once-popular brand, has ditched the slow-selling and low-profit-inducing Renegade from the US lineup, and now the Compass stands as the base option with a starting price of almost $26k. The company recently announced a few 2025 model year changes for the Jeep Compass, which became pricier after adding more standard gear, and the first deliveries are coming this fall.
But what comes after that is anyone’s guess – it’s not clear yet if the 2025MY is the final installment for the second-generation model, which first launched in 2016, but it’s pretty well-known thanks to the rumor mill that the next installment will arrive based on the new STLA Medium platform. Anyway, it seems the parallel universes of vehicular CGI are pretty confident that a new Jeep Compass iteration is coming for the 2026 model year, as per the imaginative realm of digital car content creators.
Over there, Kleber Silva, a Brazil-based virtual artist known as “KDesign AG” on social media, has decided to have a CGI go at imagining the newly mid-size CUV, which is supposedly growing a little to better accommodate the passengers and their belongings and try to lift the MSRP towards Wrangler levels. The pixel master has an unofficial, hypothetical vision about the looks of the third Jeep Compass, and the larger model becomes a twin of the Peugeot 3008 and Opel Grandland. At the same time, its exterior styling inspiration comes from the cool and all-electric Jeep Wagoneer S. The interior, meanwhile, is a bit more European than we would expect, all in the name of saving development costs.
