Does anyone own a Jeep Patriot or Jeep Compass and have an opinion?

[DeeBye]

Well, if the Jeep Website says that you can have it, I would assume that somewhere, a lot has one for sale. I've not seen a manual jeep that isn't a wrangler in a long time. Might be different in Canada. Lazy 'muricans don't use standard transmissions much, outside of sports cars (Oh, if I could have another manual....)

This is a gallery photo of a Patriot from Jeep's Canadian website:


I have no doubt that actually finding a Patriot with a manual transmission on a lot would be incredibly difficult. I love driving a manual. It just feels good. I don't really hate automatics, but I just don't see the advantage of paying more for something I don't need.