Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Jeep Patriot Towing a Car with rope in 4x4 in mud
The Patriot looks like a seven-eighths scale version of one of Jeep’s larger off-roaders. Smaller can be better – with a price of well under £20,000 and a combined cycle economy of 42.2mpg, ownership costs have also been shrunk. When Practical Caravan took the Jeep around our towing economy route, it managed 24.9mpg.
Being smaller isn’t such a virtue inside. There’s not as much rear-seat space as in a Kia Sportage, for example, and the boot struggled with our holiday load.
On the test track, the Jeep put in an okay performance. Although the soft suspension took some time to recover from bumps and sharp steering inputs, it coped quite well with the lane-change test. There are plenty of quicker and quieter cars to choose from, however.
You’d expect four-wheel drive and a torquey diesel engine to make hill-starts easy, but the handbrake needed a firm pull before it would hold the outfit. The armrest got in the way when releasing it, too. It took plenty of revs to clear the top of the hill.
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Jeep Patriot Towing a Car with rope in 4x4 in mud
The Patriot looks like a seven-eighths scale version of one of Jeep’s larger off-roaders. Smaller can be better – with a price of well under £20,000 and a combined cycle economy of 42.2mpg, ownership costs have also been shrunk. When Practical Caravan took the Jeep around our towing economy route, it managed 24.9mpg.
Being smaller isn’t such a virtue inside. There’s not as much rear-seat space as in a Kia Sportage, for example, and the boot struggled with our holiday load.
On the test track, the Jeep put in an okay performance. Although the soft suspension took some time to recover from bumps and sharp steering inputs, it coped quite well with the lane-change test. There are plenty of quicker and quieter cars to choose from, however.
You’d expect four-wheel drive and a torquey diesel engine to make hill-starts easy, but the handbrake needed a firm pull before it would hold the outfit. The armrest got in the way when releasing it, too. It took plenty of revs to clear the top of the hill.
#jeeppatriot #jeeppatriotoffroad #4x4
