The first vehicle of the brand we know as Jeep today was made in 1940, but back then, there was no Jeep slogan, because the Jeep was first and foremost a war vehicle, born from WWII. The 1940 Willys ...

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BRIDGEPORT — They swarmed the World War II cavalry jeep much like Norm Dauer might have done 74 years earlier when then-U.S. Army Lt. Phil Marsilius drove through to help liberate his Bavarian village ...

This weekend, we will celebrate 75 years of Jeep. Toledo Jeep Fest honors the rich history of the vehicle and the people who build them. It all started with military vehicles and the Toledo-built ...

Barry Ogletree, a Jeep collector in Lufkin sets up six army vehicles in front of his shop. He says it’s taken him 25 years to ...

The strongest car brand in the world is Jeep,” I recall Bob Lutz saying at some kind of Chrysler young-leaders event back when I was an engineer at the company. He didn’t really need to say that, ...

Not long after winning a 16,000-unit contract for a standardized 1⁄4-ton military 4x4 in July of 1941, Willys-Overland began making plans for civilianizing it. W-O thought about the role a civvy jeep ...

The building was never designated by the federal government as a historic landmark. But because of its importance to the military and region, some think it should have been.

The Jeep was made for war. In 1940, the impending U.S. involvement in World War II pushed the army to call for a new vehicle suited for battle. And so the Jeep, a works-in-progress vehicle, constantly ...

Seventy-five years after it wowed the U.S. Army, the oldest known Jeep is getting its due as a symbol of the Greatest Generation’s fight and Detroit’s role in what President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Like many other places in Germany, the western city of Bonn had plenty of rebuilding to do after World War II. So, with materials scarce, the ...