Jeep Patriot - 2007 Review

I was excited to rent a 2007 Jeep Patriot while in San Francisco. It was a 2007 with only 11,000 miles on it.

A Closer View

The Jeep Patriot that we drove will cost you around $13,000, It is an SUV. Ours had a 2.4 liter, 4 cylinder engine. It was automatic and 4 x 4.

Some of the standard features (and this was the base model i.e. nothing was added except the automatic - manual is standard) include a rear split second seat and regular unleaded gas.

It gets 23 miles to the gallon in the city and 26 miles to a gallon on the highway.

The Jeep Patriot was roomy and we would have been comfortable except that the seats were so uncomfortable our backs hurt us after 20 minutes of driving.

Since the Jeep is an SUV we got a lot of room for our luggage - 23 cubic feet (compare this to the roomy 16 cubic feet the Grand Prix has)

The Pros

• The Jeep looks attractive.

• The breaks were terrific. We almost hit a car and were able to stop short and avoid an accident.

The Cons

• So little is standard. We had roll up windows which I haven't used since my husband's 1998 Chevy S-10 truck!

• After 30 miles per hour it was ridiculously noisy. I thought a window was open the entire time drove this car.

• Route 1 outside San Francisco winds a lot! I felt car sick- at this point a passenger. I couldn't have handled driving the Jeep Patriot on this winding road with few barriers. The side to side motion was terrible. My body was literally sore! In other words it didn't hug the road. Perhaps that's true of SUV's but I own a Toyota 4 Runner and don't feel this way in it.

• The phone charger didn't work.

• I wouldn't expect a 2.4liter , 4 cyclinder engine to be quick but the pick up was really pathetic.

From www.edmunds.com regarding the safety of the 2007 Jeep Patriot the crash results are impressive with 5 stars for the passenger, side front and rear impact and 4 stars for the driver and rollover.

Jo's Viewpoint

We had the 2007 Jeep Patriot for 5 days. For the right price if we weren't on windy roads I would rent it again and for a young person the price is right. Still in terms of my recommendation and the possibility of my buying a Jeep Patriot I am not recommending this car and am giving it a low rating.