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JeepJeep is an automobile marque of DaimlerChrysler. The term derives from, and is often associated with, an automobile, originally a military vehicle built for the United States Army during World War II, and later produced in a line of consumer models. Although not Jeep-brand vehicles, the term is sometimes used to refer generically to farm or family vehicles such as the Land Rover, International Harvester Scout, Isuzu Trooper, Ford Bronco, and Chevrolet Blazer. This category of vehicles was the root of the Sport utility vehicle era in the 1980s. A road that is only suitable for off-road vehicles is often called a ''jeep trail''. The most famous is perhaps Black Bear Road, made famous in the song of the same name by C.W. McCall. ==History== The origin of the term "jeep" is somewhat of a mystery. Popular notion has it that the vehicle designation "GP" (for "General Purpose") was phonetically slurred in pronunciation, eventually becoming "jeep." R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, has stated that the vehicle was designed for specific duties and was never referred to as "General Purpose," and that the name may have been derived from Ford's nomenclature referring to the vehicle as GP (G for government-use, and P to designate its wheelbase size). However, many (including Ermey) claim that the more likely origin is a reference to a character from Popeye cartoons known as Eugene the Jeep. The character could walk through walls and ceilings, climb trees, fly, and just about go anywhere it wanted, and it is thought that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicle's versatility that they informally named it after the character. The first prototype was built for the Department of the Army by American Austin Car Company, followed by two other prototypes produced by Ford and Willys-Overland. Quantities of each of the three models were then extensively field tested with the Willys prototype being chosen for it's greater durability and engine power. The model MB military Jeep was first built in quantity by Willys-Overland Motor Company in Toledo, Ohio. Due to their inability to produce the vast number of vehicles required, the U.S. government also allowed jeeps to be built by Ford Motor Company and designated GPW. Combined production by Willys and Ford during World War II was more than 600,000. The Jeep was widely copied in countries other than the United States, one version being made in France by Hotchkiss and in The Netherlands by Nekaf. There were several different versions created such as a railway Jeep and an amphibious jeep. As part of the war effort, Jeeps were supplied to the Soviet Red Army during World War II. In U.S. military use, the jeep has largely been supplanted by the High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle ("Hum-Vee"). ==The Jeep marque== DaimlerChrysler, the most recent successor company to Willys, holds trademark status on the word "Jeep" and the distinctive 7-bar front grille design. It is said that the number of people worldwide who can recognize the distinctive Jeep grille is second only to the number who can recognize Mickey Mouse and that the Jeep brand is the most famous brand known worldwide other than Coke. The marque has gone through many owners, starting in 1941 with Willys, which produced the first Jeep CJ. Willys was sold to Kaiser (automobile) in 1953, which became Kaiser-Jeep in 1963. American Motors bought the company in 1970. Chrysler bought AMC in 1987, shortly after the Jeep CJ was replaced with the AMC designed Jeep Wrangler. Finally, Chrysler was merged with Daimler-Benz in 1998 to form DaimlerChrysler. Jeep vehicles are also produced in Beijing, China, by Beijing Jeep Corporation, Ltd. (BJC), a joint venture between Beijing Automobile Industry Corporation, DaimlerChrysler Corporation and DaimlerChrysler China Invest Corporation, established on January 15, 1984. Jeeps have "model designations" in addition to their common names. Nearly every civilian Jeep has a 'xJ' designation, though not all are as well-known as the classic Jeep CJ. ===Historical models=== Historical Jeep models: * Jeep CJ (CJ-2A, -3A, -3B, -4, -5, -6, -7, -8) - All similar to the original Willy's body style. Unlike the other J designators, CJ actually stands for something, "Civilian Jeep." ** 1941-1945 Jeep CJ#CJ-2 ** 1945-1949 Jeep CJ#CJ-2A ** 1949-1953 Jeep CJ#CJ-3A ** 1953-1968 Jeep CJ#CJ-3B ** 1955-1983 Jeep CJ#CJ-5 ** 1955-1981 Jeep CJ#CJ-6 - stretched CJ-5 ** 1976-1986 Jeep CJ#CJ-7 ** 1981-1985 Jeep CJ#CJ-8 - stretched CJ-7 ** 1981-1985 Jeep CJ#CJ-10 - pickup truck * 1963-1970 Jeep Gladiator (Jeep SJ) - Full-size pickup truck * 1970s Jeep Honcho (Jeep SJ) - Full-size pickup truck * 1986-1992 Jeep Comanche (MJ) - Mid-size pickup truck * 1974-2001 Jeep Cherokee - The original SUV ** 1974-1991 Jeep SJ The full-size Cherokee, Jeep Wagoneer and Jeep Grand Wagoneer ** 1984-2001 Jeep Cherokee#XJ The down-sized Cherokee and Jeep Wagoneer * Jeep Dispatcher (DJ) - A postal truck for the USPS * Jeep Jeepster - Passenger truck ** 1948-1950 Jeep Jeepster#VJ - Willys Jeepster ** 1966-1971 Jeep Jeepster#C101 - Jeepster Commando ** 1972-1973 Jeep Jeepster#C104 - Jeep Commando * 1956-1965 Jeep Forward Contol - Light truck **FC-150 **FC-170 * 1963-1990 Jeep Wagoneer - SUV ** 1963-1983 Jeep SJ ** 1984-1990 Jeep Cherokee#XJ Mid-size Jeep Cherokee/Jeep Wagoneer * 1984-1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer - Upscale full-size SUV ** 1984-1991 Jeep Grand Wagoneer - Continuation of the Jeep SJ chassis ** 1993 Jeep Grand Wagoneer - Version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee ===Current models=== Jeep currently produces three models: * Jeep Wrangler - small successor to the Jeep CJ (called ''TJ'' in Canada) ** Jeep Wrangler#YJ - The original Wrangler ** Jeep Wrangler#TJ - The current Wrangler ** Jeep Wrangler#TK - The upcoming version of the Wrangler, to be released as a 2007 model. ** Jeep Wrangler#TKL - The long wheelbase, 4-door version of the 2007 Wrangler TK. * Jeep Grand Cherokee - large family-oriented SUV ** Jeep Grand Cherokee#ZJ - The "old" Grand Cherokee, '93-'98 ** Jeep Grand Cherokee#WJ - The "newer" Grand Cherokee, '99-'04 ** Jeep Grand Cherokee#WK - The newest Grand Cherokee, '05-present ("WK" is the designator for the new Grand Cherokee, it is one of the few non-J-designated Jeeps). * Jeep Liberty - (KJ) A small SUV (called ''Cherokee'' outside North America) ===Future models=== * 2006 Jeep Commander - A 7-seat SUV based on the new Jeep Grand Cherokee * 2007 Jeep Compass - A small crossover SUV based on the redesigned Dodge Neon architecture * Jeep Rescue - A larger Hummer-size SUV ==Related topics== * SUV and Compact SUV * Rubicon Trail * jerrycan * Jeepney ===External link=== *[http://www.jeep.com/ DaimlerChrysler Jeep website] Jeep Chrysler Automobiles Off-road vehicles fa:جیپ JeepThe designation of G.P. is not for 'General Purpose'. GP (W) - In 1941, G = "Government(regardless of year), P = 80" wheelbase Reconnaissance Car, and the W = apparently means Willys pattern". (ref http://www.mil-veh.org/archives/99-09/0764.html) What Car company is IH? We could add link. User:Rmhermen 13:23 26 Jun 2003 (UTC) Hi Rmhermen, Answer: International Harvester - I assume this is/was an American car/truck/farm equipment maker.. I'm just starting to fumble my way around here; thanks for fixing my fixes in Toledo, Ohio! Later, Chris :Didn't know International Harvester ever made passenger vehicles. I just checked and International Harvester is a "was" In 1983 the tractor division merged with Case and the truck division became Navistar. User:Rmhermen ---- Do we need separate pages for jeep, the military vehicle and Jeep the line of civilian vehicles? User:Rmhermen 14:12 26 Jun 2003 (UTC) ---- Rmhermen, thank you for your excellent updates here and to the Willys page. I would think that the military and civilian vehicles are common enough up until the late 1970s that a single page could cover them. Things split up after that what with the Army buying Blazers and the Jeep turning into the Wrangler, Cherokee, Eagle... and spawning the SUV era. I have always seen that as the end of the era. Blazers and hummvs have little in common with Jeeps beyond 4wd, the blazer in particular being built on a Chevvy pickup chassis. My two cents. User:Kat 16:18 26 Jun 2003 (UTC) Hi everybody, Let me try to answer some questions taken above. 1. Jeep is a trademark - actually belongs to DaimlerChrysler. The name originates from G. P. i.e. General Purpose - the abreviation is a typical US military slang (such as G.I. Joe, for instance). 2. Although there are tendencies for the word to be genericized, this word is still protected by trademark laws of different countries. Accordingly, only DaimlerChrysler is entitled to use the mark Jeep. No other all-road 4-wheel-drive vehicles are "Jeeps", not even a Mitsubishi Pajero or a Chevrolet Blazer. 3. At the beginning, a call for a bid had been made by the US Army. The loser company - called American Bantam - used this abbreviation first when it offered his Army Reconaissance Truck to the Army. The winner of the bid was Willys. If anybody is interested in, I am ready to offer a detailed timeline, how the original Jeep trademark went from a company to another. (such as Willys-Overland, Kaiser, AMC, Renault and Chrysler). Hi everybody User:Millisits ---- This page really needs to conform to other automobile pages. Jeep is a brand of car, not a generic term. There needs to be a place to chronicle the military jeep, but there also needs to be a different place for the marque. I propose using "Jeep" for the car brand (since that's the trademark) and "Army jeep" for the military vehicles. Thoughts? --User:Sfoskett 18:15, 26 Jul 2004 (UTC) Hi, Sfoskett, Thanks for your sympathy to my lines. I think, however, that this is a case of ''temporary'''genericization of trademarks, so, this is not a disambiguation case. Since "Jeep" and the proposed "Army Jeep" belong to the same story, I think only one (the existing) entry would do. (Let me tell you a similar case. In Hungary (my homeland)in my youth there was a shortage in razor blades (see: 1984 of George Orwell). No original Gillette blades were available and people used the word "zsilett" ("Gillette" pronounced in Hungarian) as a sinonym of all kinds of razor blades. For young generation, it is a clearcut case: Gillette blades etc are being marketed in the country and everybody knows that Gillette is a brand.) --User:Millisits OK, so how about we move the military stuff to a section and make the page primarily about the modern car brand? We can disambiguate right on the page and provide links to other historical models if needed. But the page has got to link to the Cherokee, Liberty, Wrangler, etc as well. I'll do it this week. --User:Sfoskett 16:11, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC) :OK, what do you think? Clear? --User:Sfoskett 18:37, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC) ==The Marque== *1st sentence: "...and the distinctive 7-bar front grill design" *2nd sentence: "the distinctive Jeep grille" Which spelling is correct? User:Thryduulf 18:05, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC) :Grille is the thing on the front of a vehicle. A grill is something you cook on. --User:Sfoskett 19:09, Jan 27, 2005 (UTC) == First SUV == Can Cherokee really be called "the original SUV", with the Range Rover being introduced four years earlier? Mind, the RR didn't get introduced into the North American market, where the SUV term originated, until years later. User:Harald Hansen 07:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) :One might also refer to the Jeep Jeepster as the first SUV... --User:Sfoskett 18:11, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC) JeepCar companies of the United States Jeep{| style="margin:0 auto;" align=center width=75% class="toccolours" ---- |align=center colspan=3| Jeep |-- |align=center colspan=3| Current Jeep Commander Jeep Compass Jeep Grand Cherokee Jeep Liberty Jeep Wrangler |-- |align=center colspan=3| Historic Jeep CJ: Jeep CJ#CJ-2 Jeep CJ#CJ-2A Jeep CJ#CJ-3A Jeep CJ#CJ-3B Jeep CJ#CJ-5 Jeep CJ#CJ-6 Jeep CJ#CJ-7 Jeep CJ#CJ-8 Jeep CJ#CJ-10 Jeep SJ: Jeep Cherokee Jeep Gladiator Jeep Grand Wagoneer Jeep Honcho Jeep Wagoneer Others: Jeep Cherokee Jeep Comanche Jeep Dispatcher Jeep Forward Contol Jeep Jeepster Jeep Wagoneer |-- |align=center colspan=3|''[http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:Jeep&action=edit Edit this tempate]'' |} See other meanings of words starting from letter: JJA | JB | JC | JD | JE | JF | JG | JH | JI | JK | JL | JM | JN | JO | JP | JR | JS | JT | JU | JW | JX | JY | JZ |Words begining with Jeep: Jeep Jeep Jeep Jeep Jeepers_Creepers Jeepers_Creepers_(movie) Jeepers_Creepers_(song) Jeepers_Creepers_2 Jeepers_Creepers_II Jeepney Jeepney Jeepo Jeeps Jeepster_Commando Jeepster_Records Jeepster_records Jeep_Cherokee Jeep_CJ Jeep_CJ2 Jeep_CJ7 Jeep_Comanche Jeep_Comanche_Chief Jeep_Commanche Jeep_Commander Jeep_Commando Jeep_Compass Jeep_Dauntless_engine Jeep_engines Jeep_Gladiator Jeep_Grand_Cherokee Jeep_Grand_Wagoneer Jeep_Honcho Jeep_Jeepster Jeep_Jeepster_Commando Jeep_Liberty Jeep_platforms Jeep_PowerTech_engine Jeep_SJ Jeep_Swenson Jeep_Trails_to_Colorado_Ghost_Towns Jeep_vehicles Jeep_Wagoneer Jeep_Wrangler |
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