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Jeep is one of the top patriotic automakers in the United States. Born to fight, the original Jeep evolved only to help the United States win World War II, and has become an almaximum icon by accident. Civil sales began some time after the return of peace, but keeping the logo alive, and much less successful, incredibly difficult. Like a cursed idol guy, Jeep went from automaker to automaker, leaving a trail of dead businesses in its wake.
The Jeep born in the U.S. Army Wants a vehicle that can upgrade the horse and motorcycle as a general means of transportation. In fact, one of the popular theories about the origin of the so-called Jeep posits that it comes from GP, a general objective acronym. Others evoke Eugene the Jeep, a character in Popeye’s comic strip. Wherever it comes from, the call was maintained.
The suvs evolved through the American Bantam Car Company in Butler, Pennsylvania. He began making authoritative copies of British-made Austin cars. In 1940, when the government submitted a tender for a small four-wheel-drive military vehicle, the company was unfortunate.
American Bantam arrived here with a prototype that exceeded the army’s design parameters. The army was involved in the small automaker’s ability to build the number of cars it needed, so it hired Willys-Overland and then Ford to build what became the Jeep. Ford literally tried to put his own imprint on the Jeep’s design by marking as many portions as possible with an “F” to differentiate the Jeeps he made from those made through Willys. After the war, it was Willys who retained the design rights and tried to give the Jeep a moment of civilian life.
Willys changed his Army Jeep (known as MB) to CJ-2A. “CJ” meant “civilian Jeep,” and Willys would continue to produce those repurposed army cars over several separate generations for about 4 decades. The CJ eventually replaced through the Wrangler, which continues to occupy a similar niche today.
However, Willys did not stop him. His goal was to create a complete diversity of Jeep vehicles, marking the beginning of Jeep’s transition to an autonomous brand. He implemented eye-catching designs, adding the Station Wagon for a long life in 1946, a pickup truck in 1947 and the Jeepster, a small convertible designed to look more like a traditional car. The concept of more Jeeps for a car will be revised decades later in the form of the first Jeep crossovers.
Just as the original Jeep left American Bantam behind, the Jeep brand proved more resilient than its parent. In 1953, Willys was bought by Kaiser, which was responsible for another important World War II vehicle, the Liberty Ship. Kaiser jumped into the car business after the war. It dropped the Willys name altogether in 1963, becoming Kaiser-Jeep. That same year, Jeep introduced the Wagoneer, a more civilized alternative to the CJ. With its fully enclosed station wagon-like body, the Wagoneer was one of the earliest forerunners of the modern family SUV.
In 1969, the American Motors Corporation (AMC) got Kaiser to facilitate its departure from the automotive industry. While the Jeep logo has grown significantly under AMC, the rest of the Wisconsin-based automaker line has slowly dried up, largely due to lack of forecasting, deep monetary upheaval and quality issues. Even a Paris-based partnership with Renault ultimately failed to save AMC, so Chrysler succeeded in 1987 and shut it down soon after. In retrospect, all Chrysler was looking for was the name, image, cars, and Jeep property of Jeep.
The 1980s saw the arrival of two vital Jeep models. The first was the Cherokee of the XJ generation, who was born in 1984. The XJ was Jeep’s first truly modern SUV and helped drive the logo even further into the mainstream. The XJ remained in production with some modifications until 2001, when it was replaced by freedom.
While Chrysler was quietly preparing to take over, Jeep was putting the finishing touches to replace its long-standing CJ, which had generated many variants since its introduction. The SUV that traced his DNA directly to the World War II-era Willys was too raw for fashion tastes, so Jeep started from scratch during the progression of his successor, the original Wrangler (YJ). It was more subtle than its predecessor, but it was still incredibly effective off the road. Users can simply remove the doors, remove the most sensitive ones and bend the windshield.
Combining the CJ’s gaze and off-road capability with fashionable equipment, the YJ looked like a smart outfit, but Jeep purists rejected it in the first place. They didn’t like YJ square headlight accessories, which were replaced by more classic circular lighting fixtures in the coming generations. It is now in its fourth generation in July 2020.
Jeep a wise acquisition for Chrysler. The 1990s saw an explosion of interest in SUVs, and Jeep was able to leverage its expertise and capitalize on public enthusiasm. He brought the first Grand Cherokee in 1992 to upgrade the Decades-Ranked Grand Wagoneer. In the late 1990s, things began to disintegrate.
Chrysler merged with Daimler AG in 1998 and began working more intensively on trucks and SUVs at the expense of fuel economy and overall quality. The first crossovers founded on a Jeep car, the Compass and the Patriot, were universally exploited, while the huge commander became a white elephant once the 2008 recession arrived and gasoline costs began to rise. In the midst of it all, Jeep brought the first generation Grand Cherokee SRT, a very fast hot rod that absolutely ignored off-road performance in favor of road performance.
After being released through Daimler and paralyzed by the recession, Chrysler filed for bankruptcy. Instead of fully collapsing, he bought through Fiat to shape what is now known as Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles (FCA). The new owners have made debatable decisions, adding the return of the Cherokee as a crossover and the advent of the one-pint-sized renegade. At the 2017 New York Auto Show, Jeep also hosted the 707-horsepower Grand Cherokee Trackhawk, a vehicle american Bantam designers probably couldn’t have imagined.
Jeep left the van segment after finishing production of the Comanche founded by XJ in 1992. He made a long-awaited return by removing the Gladiator, a truck founded on the 4th generation of Wrangler, at the 2018 Los Angeles Auto Show. The style comes exclusively with 4 doors, and must be had with a wide variety of engines including a turbodiesel V6. Jeep sells nearly a million cars a year and we expect it to continue to grow.
Looking ahead, Jeep will present the next-generation Grand Cherokee by the end of 2020. It will also resurrect the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer brands in a pair of SUVs built on the same base platform as the Ram 1500. The Wrangler becomes a long list of updates as well. On the one hand, you’re about to get a plug-in hybrid powertrain that will allow you to run on electric power over short distances. On the other hand, you get a 6.4-liter herbal suction V8 configured to stop 450 horsepower on all 4 wheels. Clearly, Jeep still knows how to ask his fans.