Why was the first jeep made?
Willys-Overland designed and built the first military "Jeep" in the early 1940s. The U.S. war department issued requirements for a rugged 1/4-ton 4x4 car; the Willys-Overland response, the quad, emerged victorious amid more than 130 competitors' entries. Willys produced roughly 360,000 MB jeeps during world war 11, and Ford built approximately 250,000 of its model GpW Jeep.