Discover the legacy of the Willys Rural and F75, two of the most iconic vehicles in Brazil’s automotive history. Originally ...

On this Veteran’s Day, we salute the O.G. jeep: The quarter-ton 4×4 designed and built, in large part, by Willys-Overland […] Hagerty Media. Happy Veterans Day to the Willys-Overland Jeep.

Willys-Overland was purchased by Kaiser Manufacturing Co. in 1953. In 1963, the company dropped the Willys name, becoming Kaiser-Jeep Corp. Six years later, in 1969, ...

In 1940-45, Willys-Overland built 362,894 Jeeps; Ford 285,660; American Bantam 2,676. Bantam also built around 60,000 trailers to haul gear behind Jeeps.

Under Willys' guidance, the company became Willys-Overland Motor Co. in 1909. That year, production moved to the modern former Pope automobile plant in Toledo, Ohio.

Jeeps have been around since Willys Overland built its light troop and gear carrier for the U.S. Army during World War II.Immediately after the war, WIllys started the CJ (Civilian Jeep) line ...

Willys-Overland promotional films from just after WWII use both pronunciations freely. While they shed no light on elocution, they’re worth seeing for a sense of the Jeep’s postwar stature, ...

Willys-Overland applied for the "Jeep" trademark in 1943 but it was not granted until 1950 because there was conflict over the origins of the name and to what vehicle it was applied first.

Willys -Overland filed the first trademark applications for the Jeep name in February 1943, but there were years of opposition from other companies. Finally, ...

Willys-Overland Motor Co. won the federal contract in July 1941 to build a quarter-ton 4X4 utility truck for the military at a unit price of $738.74 ($14,604.89 in today’s dollars) ...