Source:. Drive. ru.
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Jeep Logo. |
Jeep. - This name has become synonymous with the designation of off-road vehicles. At the same time not everyone knows that the Jeep - it is also a brand name company, more than 60 years producing SUVs.
The roots of the history of the Jeep goes deep into the past. In early 1938 the U.S. military leadership has recognized the need for a mobile vehicle that would serve as a replacement of a traditional motorcycle with sidecar. By December 22, 1939 the company «Willys Overland produced the first drawings of the original concept, which will soon become known to the world under the name ... The machine was supposed to be light, agile and powerful.
After the war, Willys Overland decided to adjust their offspring to perform certain civic functions. Was prepared by the party machine. Just called them - CJ ( acronym for Civilian Jeep - « Civilian Jeep ... These prototypes were the basis for a production model, which went on sale in August 1945.
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Cars CJ initiated the legendary American producer of SUVs. |
However, apparently the whole ...
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The family of the military Willys different years. |
On the hood, rear door and window frames had to be logo. Jeep. However, in the first years of production, the company has conducted trials with the ...
In 1946, Willys was the first in the automotive industry, who proposed a kind of vehicle for civilian use. The car had a rear-wheel drive and could hold up to a seven-person. Speed performance, however, did not shine - 100 km / h, but this is not important. The main thing - cross-country! . And this is a dynasty.
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The first Jeep Willys company with a closed metal body received the name Jeep. All-steal. Station Wagon. |
Further development of the themes to occur in Station Wagon, in a multi- Jeep shipped from 1951 to 1963. Its foundation and has served as the external features of the prototype first Wagoneer, who in turn laid the foundation for our hero.
In 1953 the company received a new name -Willys Motors. Fortunately, the separation of Jeep remained in the new company. By sailing a Willys car production.
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1962 Jeep Wagoneer. |
1960 was perhaps the most important in the history of the Jeep: it is the time to shape the market off-road vehicles (SUV). Back in the mid-1950s the company began actively researching and developing new projects with the wheel formula cars 4 × 4. The first fruits of the program has given the fall of 1962, when a whole new Jeep Wagoneer ( wagon ), is fundamentally different from earlier manufactured. The model belongs to the J-series, and was equipped with a full or partial drive.
In 1954 was born on the fifth version of ... This all-wheel drive vehicle has been so successful that it stayed on the line, changing, however, engines, suspension and transmission, up to 1983.
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Jeep CJ5 is considered one of the most successful models of the company 's history. |
By the way, a series of ... The combination of all-wheel drive with a ... In addition, the engine Wagoneer - «Tornado» - is the only American power unit with overhead camshaft.
Six months after the launch of the new J-series Willys Overland company came to an end. But not in the literal sense. Just in March 1963 Willys Motor was renamed the Kaiser Jeep Corporation. Change is, fortunately, were not slow the rate of range expansion. In turn, Wagoneer that year was more ...
In December of 1965 Jeep dealers put in my car interior, which for 11 months, drew public attention to the nine U.S. stores - Super Wagoneer. It was a new and unique approach to estate market - machines designed for customers who increasingly understand the benefits of all-wheel drive. As elegant in appearance, the car is offered for J- traditional family characteristics vseprohodimosti. Two years later, this series of Jeep began to install automatic transmission ...
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Jeep Super Wagoneer- a new step in the company's history, this car has collected quite a few good reviews, wandering on the international motor show in 1965. |
In the late 1960s, engineers have created a series of regular engine ... It was decided to put on a series of J, to which belonged, and Super Wagoneer Wagoneer.
Entry into a new ... February 5, 1970 American Motor Corporation ( AMC ) acquired Kaiser Jeep Corporation for $ 70 million. Again, a change of masters not only improved, and before a good position in the market. For the Jeep Wagoneer AMC offered the largest in the history of all-wheel drive wagon - V6 with a single camshaft. Options were also the first time in world practice, V8 of its own production.
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In the 1973 Jeep Wagoneer has undergone a number of technical improvements. |
In 1973, the Wagoneer underwent some technical improvements. His new transmission «Quadro Track» was the first fully automated system for permanent all-wheel machines ( with a limited slip differential ).
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... 200th Anniversary. USA. |
The following year was the birth of a new name - Cherokee Newbie joined to the J- series as a two -door model. On the 200th anniversary of America in 1976, Jeep released the seventh generation ... By 1977 the company produced and four -door version, along with a standard V6. And while Jeep Cherokee at birth resembled more luxurious Wagoneer, later it was he who was the most popular car in the. history of Jeep Motors.
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The first Jeep Cherokee was an already known Wagoneer, but had a three-door body. |
In 1978 he launched a limited edition Wagoneer - Modification Limited ( with leather interior, radio, and a mass of chromium).
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Wagoneer Limited was represented by a limited batch of base Wagoneer. |
Due to the energy crisis that began in 1979, production of large pickup trucks and vans Gladiator Wagoneer plummeted. But the civilian Jeeps CJ-series went like hot cakes.
In 1984 the company has launched new versions of 2/4-dvernogo Cherokee, as well as 4 -door Wagoneer, which was 53.3 cm shorter than 15 cm is 10 cm below and 453 kg lighter than its predecessor, first introduced in . Cherokee was the only car in the compact class, who had four doors and two -wheel drive system - CommandTrac and SelectTrac. In the competition to ensure that ... The success of the Jeep and, in particular, Cherokee was not a fleeting. The car was named the best SUV in 1984.
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Best SUV in 1984 was recognized as appeared in the same year the Jeep Cherokee. |
Growing off-road segment of buyers now, except the characteristic features of the car 4 × 4 - permeability, reliability, durability - were needed comfort and functionality, were associated primarily with passenger cars. The answer to market demands Jeep followed. In the spring of 1986 was born on Wrangler. Mechanical filling with Wrangler was more like a Cherokee, CJ7 than. Along with features like comfort, good looks, Wrangler offers traditional virtues of the family Jeep - endurance and unrivaled ability to ride on the road.
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Jeep Wrangler, appeared in 1986, instantly becoming a hit among American youth, and not only. |
August 5, 1987 American Motor Corporation, steadfastly maintained over decades, the blows of fate, gave up, finally, at the mercy of the government: it declared bankruptcy. All the property was sold. Jeep Corporation purchased. Chrysler.
Jeep came in the 1990s, armed with. March 22, 1990 was a series of one-millionth SUV «XJ» - a bright red Cherokee Limited. In the seven years of production Cherokee not only became the embodiment of an exemplary off-road vehicle, but also the most popular model in Europe to Chrysler.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the company's Jeep and Chrysler released a new version of the Cherokee with 190 -horsepower 4- liter engine PowerTechSix machine that would become the new ideal SUV. The real name of this machine, the company decided to be «Grand Cherokee», a car buyers will be wealthy people, which the association of a high level of safety, comfort and prestige to this reduced to a respectable vehicles imported from abroad. In other words, Jeep decided to bring in a strict and, in general, a simple touch of luxury SUV world to bring to their products, not only the farmers of the Wild West, but the wealthy.
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The first Jeep Grand Cherokee from the present generation was born in 1992. |
Official presentation of the machines was January 7, 1992 at the Detroit Auto Show. In the 1996 model year Grand Cherokee has been significantly improved in terms of engine, chassis, electronic systems and interior. Inside the cabin the most significant changes occurred in the dashboard. All switches and buttons are placed in close proximity to the driver, improved ergonomics of the interior.
Successfully cope with the Grand Cherokee, Jeep design team set about Wrangler - a descendant of famous Willys, from which the history of the company and began. Engineers had to create a second. generation Jeep Wrangler.
By the time the Wrangler without significant changes planned for almost nine years and held a 50% market share of compact SUVs. Despite such an impressive position of the car and the fact that 1994 was a record number of sold Wrangler, the company had to think about. Opponents understood the perspective of the market and attacked it with new models of various.
The purpose of the successor to the. Wrangler. was set the same as before the new Grand Cherokee, - to set new standards in off-road world. However, the circumstances and conditions of a Jeep were other. Wrangler is a direct descendant of the original model Jeep from World War II and was considered the world a kind of ...
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The penultimate generation Grand Cherokee - one of the most popular SUVs on the secondary market. |
The car market was unique and represented the quintessence of traditional companies (jeepness - « dzhipost ... The successor had to not only maintain their ... But one thing was to remain unchanged - the name of Wrangler. Wrangler - a synonym for ...
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Jeep Wrangler and 2001 remains similar in appearance to the very first Willys. |
Jeep. - One of the most famous brands in the world of cars. In some languages , such as in Russian, the brand name has become synonymous with the designation of vehicle -terrain.
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Appearance of modern Cherokee Liberty made close to the models that were produced in the early days of stamps. |