I don't know if it's hope or wishful thinking, but I'm hoping the next Compass offers a similar powertrain as this Avenger 4Xe has. We know they are tooling up a 1.6 liter four cylinder for domestic production. The next Compass will be built on the STLA medium platform, which should find better acceptance in our marketplace than an Avenger sized Jeep. For a Compass sized vehicle I would like to see more powerful electric motors on the axles than the Euro Avenger has. I would like to see a domestically built transmission as well, even it it comes from an outside supplier.
The next step up is the Cherokee. Since the next generation platform has potential for high voltage with the battery electric version, it would be nice if a high voltage hybrid was also offered with the IC engine.