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Americancarfans.com has just published 13 spy photos of a camouflaged Jeep Compass doing some snow testing. The pictures accompany a small blurb about the vehicle, but there’s no new info in the text. You can check out the pics and blub here.

What’s really interesting is a series of photos where it looks like the Compass slid off the road into a ditch in the snow. Almost amazingly the vehicle is able to drive back out on its own though. Considering it’s sunk in probably 6” or more of snow, the road is visibly slick from packed snow and ice, and it’s got the rear driver-side tire in the air most of the time, I’m pretty impressed it was able to drive out without help… which makes me wonder if the driver really did slid off of accident, or if they did it on purpose as part of the testing. Either way it looks like Jeep’s new little soft-roader will be packing a pretty nice traction-control system.

Despite the camo coverings on the front and rear, the test vehicle does look very much like the Compass concept, and from a rear perspective view it also seems to me to bear an strong resemblence to the Porsche Cayenne.