Interesting facts

     As tensions were heightening around the world in the late 1930s, the US Army asked American automobile manufacturers to tender suggestions to replace its existing, aging light motor vehicles, mostly motorcycles and sidecars. The willys changed everything by making the best 4x4 vehicle ever made. This car put a advantage by letting the United States letting them move were ever they need to go. During WWII Jeeps were coming out of the Willys and Ford Plants at rate of one jeep per one and a half minutes and by the end of the war over 700,000 had been built. The Americans had so many Jeeps that some German soldiers believed each America GI got his own Jeep as standard issue. The origin of the name "Jeep" has many interesting theories. Ford named it a general-purpose vehicle, or GP for short that when slurred together sounds like "Jeep."