Photo: KDesign AG / Behance
Do you know who the 2024 recall king is? Well, we are still trying to find out who will get this shady “honor” because FoMoCo and FCA are heavily competing for the crown.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles are on the verge of setting an unwanted record: in the first half of August, they already have 41 recalls. That's 41 each, not combined, which is more than double the number of third-place BMW (!). At this rate, the Detroit brands will have more than one recall every week of the year on average!
In any case, while Ford is comfortably numb at the top of the best-seller lists thanks to the undying love of customers for its F-Series and now its darling Maverick compact truck, Stellantis is going crazy, shouting its indignation that its usual cash cow, its North American operations, is no longer running like clockwork. It’s no surprise, given that Ram has ditched the Hemi V8, Dodge has killed off the L-body Charger and Challenger, and even Jeep has started to falter.
To stem the bleeding, the once-popular brand dropped the slow-selling, low-profit Renegade from its U.S. lineup, with the Compass now the base option, starting at nearly $26k. The company recently announced some 2025 model year changes for the Jeep Compass, which has become more expensive after adding more standard equipment, with first deliveries coming this fall.
But what happens next is anyone’s guess: it’s still unclear whether the 2025MY will be the last installment of the second-generation model, first launched in 2016, but it’s pretty well known through word of mouth that the next installment will be based on the new STLA Medium platform. In any case, it seems like the vehicular CGI parallel universes are pretty confident that a new iteration of the Jeep Compass will arrive for the 2026 model year, according to the imaginative realm of digital automotive content creators.
There, Kleber Silva, a Brazilian virtual artist known on social media as “KDesign AG,” decided to try to CGI the new midsize CUV, which will supposedly grow a bit to better accommodate passengers and their belongings and try to raise the MSRP to Wrangler levels. The pixel maestro has an unofficial and hypothetical vision of what the third Jeep Compass will look like, and the larger model becomes a twin to the Peugeot 3008 and Opel Grandland. Meanwhile, the exterior styling inspiration comes from the awesome all-electric Jeep Wagoneer S. The interior, meanwhile, is a bit more European than we’d expect, all in the name of saving on development costs.