Jeep in a Nash frock?

Who da thunk it? Jeep, who has pretty much built a design vocabulary around a single model designed over 50 years ago, seems to be reaching to its long defunct cousin Nash for some fresh ideas. Rummaging around in the family photo album, someone seems to have fixated on the Nash Metropolitan...

Might I bring your attention to the Jeep Compass, a FWD cute-ute (remember cute-utes?). Styling themes seem to have gone straight from one to the other...

Notice the design similarities:

1. Headlights at the leading edge of a tunnel that reaches back along the hoodline
   
2. Squared off wheel openings. There is a complete posting on squared off wheel openings somewhere in the future of this blog...
   
3. The dip on the doors under the windows on the Nash are enlarged all the way down the side of the Jeep, nearly to the rocker panel
   
4. The reverse angle used at the C-pillar, while used in a different way is there
5. Bumpers fared into bulges in the fenders
6. The Compass even tries to look like a 2-door, hiding the rear door handles in a very Pathfinderish way
7. and the parking lights/turn signals on the Nash becomes the fog lights on the Jeep.

Granted, the first two of these have been seen on other Jeeps, but it is still pretty odd that such dissimilar cars end up with such a similar overall feel. The picture here actually makes the Jeep look OK. In person, it looks just as dorky a Nash Metropolitan, but not as cute. Just bigger. And dorky.