Jeep SUVs for sale. New and used Jeep SUVs available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Jeep is a division of the Chrysler Corporation; however, if you delve into the history of Jeep you will learn that there are several different tales of the beginning, even though this jeep division was founded in 1941.
The word jeep was around long before the founding of the automobile marque used by Chrysler. As far back as World War I in 1914 to 1918, the term jeep was used as slang for new recruits as well as for new unproven vehicles. Jeep has been used as slang for all types of vehicles such as a small tractor to an airplane. The way in which many believe the jeep really received its name is that during the time that the first vehicle was being tested at Camp Holabird, many of the civilians present did not know the term jeep was slang for an unproven vehicle. Once they heard the name Jeep used it just stuck. However, there were also other names given to this first vehicle, which included Peep, Pygmy, and Blitz-Buggy.
The general public saw the performance of the jeep in a stunt in which Irving “Red” Haussman drove a Willys-Overland up the steps of the United States Capitol in 1941. Irving had heard the soldier around Camp Holabird call the vehicle a jeep. When Katherine Hillyer of the Washington Daily News the name of the vehicle, Irving immediately stated, “It’s a jeep.”
The first jeep prototype was the Bantam BRC, which was created fro the Department of the Army by American Bantam with two other prototypes from Ford and Willys-Overland. Ford and Willys won out over Bantam as their engine and factory was more equipped to handle a large order.
In 1941, the jeep was Willys, which created the first civilian jeep. Willys then sold the jeep to Kaiser in 1953 when it became known as the Kaiser-Jeep in 1963. In 1970, American Motors purchased Kaisers jeep operations.
Chrysler had their eye on the jeep brand along with other assets held by American Motors. In 1987, Chrysler purchased American Motors. Chrysler merged with Daimler-Benz in 1998, which formed the new company DaimlerChrysler. However, DaimlerChrysler sold their interests to a private equity company in 2007. Now Chrysler and Jeep are operated under the Chrysler Holding LLC.
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American Motors Corporation, or AMC, was founded in 1954. AMC built cars in the U.S. until 1987 when they were taken over by Chrysler Corporation. While American Motors is generally not known for their muscle cars, they have a had a few winners, and some of their cars made great sleepers for those who wanted discreet performance.
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The AMC AMX was American Motors answer to the popular pony cars. Built to be a two sports car, the AMX was recognized for it's excellence in engineering. Numerous versions of the AMX were built for racing in the Trans AM series, NHRA, and other racing series.
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Classic Plymouth muscle cars for sale. These restored and unrestored Plymouth cars available for sale from individuals and dealers from around the country.
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Plymouth is an automobile margue that was marketed by the Chrysler Corporation and DailmlerChrysler. Chrysler introduced the Plymouth on July 7, 1928, which was their first automobile in low price market. During this time, Chevrolet and Ford had the market on the lower priced automobiles. The Plymouths created were a bit higher than those of Ford and Chevrolet but they offered unique features that the other automobile manufacturer could not match such as hydraulic brakes. The logo of the Plymouth automobiles was a rear view of the Mayflower ship, which brought the pilgrims to Plymouth Rock, thus the reason for the name.
The true beginning of the Plymouth was with Walter Chrysler. Walter took over as the controller of the Maxwell-Chalmers car company in the 1920’s. With this, he of course received the Maxwell automobile as part of the package deal. He used the facilities of Maxwell-Chalmers to create the first Chrysler in 1924. He then decided to create a lower priced car to compete with Ford and Chevrolet. He reworked the Maxwell and created a lower priced Chrysler model. He once again reworked the automobile and created the Plymouth.
During the 1930’s, the Great Depression hit the United States, many automobile manufacturers could not compete with the low priced cars, however, the Chrysler Corporation survived. At the beginning of the 1930’s Chrysler had three divisions, which included Chrysler, DeSoto, and Dodge. By 1931, Plymouth rose to the number three spot for best selling cars.
From 1957 until 1959, Plymouth was one of the best selling automobiles in the United States; however, the 1960’s was not so nice to Plymouth. The public was not too interested in the Plymouth style created from 1959 until 1962 and the competition was winning.
During the 1990s’ there were only four vehicles sold under the name of Plymouth which were the Voyager/Grand Voyager minivan, the Breeze mid-size sedan, the Neon compact car, and the Prowler sports car.
2001 saw the end of the Plymouth. The neon is the only automobile left in the Plymouth line. The Prowler is now a Chrysler, the Breeze was dropped, and the PT Cruiser even though there were plans to market it under Plymouth was launched as a Chrysler. The last Plymouth off the assembly line was June 28, 2001.
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