Jeep Is A Brand of American Automobiles That Is A

Jeep is a brand of American automobiles that is a division of Chrysler Group LLC, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Italian multinationalautomaker Fiat S.p.A..[2][3] The former Chrysler

Corporation acquired the Jeep brand, along with the remaining assets of its ownerAmerican
Motors, in 1987. Jeep's current product range consists solely of sport utility vehicles and off-road
vehicles, but has also included pickup trucks in the past.
The first Willys MB Jeeps were produced in 1941,[1] making it the oldest off-road vehicle ever
made, and the first civilian models were produced in 1945.[4] It inspired a number of other light
utility vehicles, such as the Land Rover.[5][6] The original Jeep vehicle that first appeared as the
prototype Bantam BRC became the primary light 4-wheel-drive vehicle of the United States
Army and Allies during World War II, as well as the postwar period. The term was common
worldwide in the wake of World War II, as American forces employed engineering solutions to
military problems. Doug Stewart notes:
The spartan, cramped, and unstintingly functional jeep became the ubiquitous World War
II four-wheeled personification ofYankee ingenuity and cocky, can-do determination."[7]
Many Jeep variants serving similar military and civilian roles have since been designed in
other nations.
Contents
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1 Development
o 1.1 Origin of the name
o 1.2 Trade name
o 1.3 Bantam Reconnaissance Car
o 1.4 Ford Pygmy and Willys MB
2 World War II Jeeps
3 Postwar military Jeeps
o 3.1 The CJ-V35/U
o 3.2 The M715
4 The Jeep brand
5 Off-road abilities
6 Ownership
7 Jeep model list
o 7.1 Historical and military models
o 7.2 Jeep Forward Control, Jeep Jeepster, & Jeep FJ
o 7.3 Jeep CJ
o 7.4 Jeep DJ
o 7.5 Jeep SJ
o 7.6 Jeep Cherokee (XJ)
o 7.7 Jeep Comanche
o 7.8 Jeep Wrangler
o 7.9 ZJ, WJ, and WK models
o 7.10 XK models
o 7.11 KJ models
o 7.12 Current models
8 Future Models
o 8.1 Concept vehicles
9 Jeeps around the world
10 Jeep apparel and sponsorships

11 See also
12 References
13 External links
Development[edit]
Origin of the name[edit]
Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep have proven difficult to verify. The most
widely held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes orGeneral
Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that the
contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become
known as theHumvee. Joe Frazer, Willys-Overland President from 1939 to 1944, claimed to
have coined the word jeep by slurring the initials G.P.[8]
An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes
this "slurred GP" origin, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was
never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeepdriving GI would have been familiar with this designation. The Ford GPW abbreviation
actually meant G for government use, P to designate its 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and
W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine. Ermey suggests that soldiers at the time
were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the
Jeep, a character in the Popeye comic strip and cartoons created by E. C. Segar, as early as
mid-March 1936. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move
between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."[9][10]
The word jeep, however, was used as early as 1914 by US Army mechanics assigned to test
new vehicles. In 1937, tractors which were supplied by Minneapolis Moline to the US Army
were called jeeps. A precursor of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was also referred to as the
jeep.[8]
Words of the Fighting Forces by Clinton A. Sanders, a dictionary of military slang, published
in 1942, in the library at The Pentagon gives this definition:
Jeep: A four-wheel drive vehicle of one-half- to one-and-one-half-ton capacity for
reconnaissance or other army duty. A term applied to the bantam-cars, and occasionally
to other motor vehicles (U.S.A.) in the Air Corps, the Link Trainer; in the armored forces,
the -ton command vehicle. Also referred to as "any small plane, helicopter, or
gadget."[citation needed]

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Jeep is a brand of American automobiles that is a division of Chrysler Group LLC, a wholly

owned subsidiary of Italian multinationalautomaker Fiat S.p.A..[2][3] The former Chrysler

10 Jeep apparel and sponsorships

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