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the only WWII grunt that came home, kept the name, and conquered suburbia.
means A small, rugged, all-purpose four-wheel-drive vehicle, originally built for the military and now a brand and a general term for go-anywhere off-roaders.
from The name's birth is genuinely murky, and two stories compete. One traces it to the military designation 'G.P.' (general purpose), slurred into 'jeep' by soldiers — a tidy tale, but many etymologists doubt it. The likelier source is Eugene the Jeep, a magical, problem-solving creature from the Popeye comics of the late 1930s; soldiers, fond of nicknaming their gear, may have borrowed the name for a versatile little vehicle that could seemingly do anything. 'Jeep' had already floated around military slang for various small machines before it settled, durably, on the four-wheeled survivor we know.
- name origin
- Possibly 'GP' for general purpose, or a Popeye character
- war record
- Over 600,000 built for Allied forces by 1945
- flat folds
- Windshield drops flat for shipping and stealth
- seven slots
- The grille's bars are a trademarked feature
- river crossing
- Many models can ford water nearly waist-deep
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