At the beginning of 1938, the war in Europe began to spread; The US Army Headquarters has publicly requested a light reconnaissance vehicle from all automobile manufacturing companies to replace the traditional military three-seater motorcycle for transmitting military information and undertaking early reconnaissance tasks.
1in the summer of 940, the U.S. military expressed more specific manufacturing ideas, hoping that it would be a lightweight, easy-to-operate, durable, reliable and flexible model and meet the specifications required by the military.
Finally, three automobile companies participated in the bidding, and at the same time,10.5 million vehicles were manufactured for the military to conduct field off-road tests. As a result, the design concept submitted by Bantam was selected, and this model handed over by Bantam was finally comprehensively improved with the design concepts of Ford and Willys-Overland to better meet the military requirements.
194 1 On July 23, 2008, the US military signed a contract with Willys-Overland Automobile Factory in Toledo, Ohio to manufacture WillysMB cars, and Jeep officially began to expand the automobile market.
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JEEP models:
1, herdsmen
The 2007 herdsman is equipped with a 3.8-liter V6 engine, with a maximum output horsepower of 202 HP and a maximum output torque of 320 Nm. The fuel consumption of the six-speed manual transmission version of Xinmuren is 13.8 liters per 100 kilometers in cities and 12.4 liters per 100 kilometers in expressways, and the fuel consumption of the four-speed automatic transmission version is 14.7 liters per 100 kilometers in cities and expressways respectively.
2. Jeep Grand Cherokee
The fuel consumption of Jeep Grand Cherokee is10.4 ~14.0L/0-100km, the engine model is 3.6LV6/5.7LV8/6.4LV8, the top speed is 206~255km/h, and the acceleration time is 4.9~8.7 seconds (0
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