OREANDA-NEWS. Jeep Company stopped sales in Russia of Compass crossover and today Russian dealers are selling the last units of this model.

"Dealers have several cars Compass - no more than 15 cars in the whole of Russia (according to the data for January). In the near future they will be sold and we fully switch to the Jeep Renegade sale [in this segment]. In the middle of the year [in the US] it will be presented Compass successor, as it is called Jeep C-SUV”, - the press service of the Russian representative of the concern Fiat Chrysler (“FCA Rus ") informed the newspaper" Izvestia "

One of the main reasons that the model is no longer in demand became the grown by one-third price. Before the withdrawing from the sales, the price of Compass in Russia was 1.749 million rubles, which is more by 28.5% than the level of October 2014, when the exchange rate fluctuations is not so much affected the price of imported goods. For the 2015 sales of Jeep Compass fell to a critically lows - 72 units (-89.7%). The car was offered in Russia with a gasoline engine 2.4 (170 hp), 6-speed automatic transmission and all-wheel drive.