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Cruze hatch tested ❯❯ Following the Australian market launch of its indigenous refettled Cruze II four-door, Holden has Where’s the Stig? begun to test the five-door Left to right: The Willys Quad, an early Model MA and a civilian CJ-2A with its distinctive side-mount spare. hatchback version of the model, to Book fine-tune the chassis and driving characteristics before its introduction later in the year. The This week, we have a copy of Top Cruze hatch was designed by Gear’s Where’s the Stig? to give Holden’s Melbourne-based design Wartime Jeep marks 70 years away. All you have to do to be in to team and will have the same petrol win is tell us which British and turbodiesel and television show former Stig Ben gearboxes as the , with the was imminent and that the Jeep, later. The MA Jeep featured a Collins now appears in, typing possibility of a 1.6-litre turbo four In April and May 1941, the first deliveries of as it would become known, would This resulted in the selection of gearshift on the steering column, your answer in the subject field of from GM Opel for a 130-kilowatt play an important role. Willys as the primary low side-body cutouts, two an email to [email protected] by eventual hot-hatch version. the war-winning, Hollywood-charming Jeep All three companies quickly manufacturer, while most of the circular instrument clusters on Wednesday, May 25. We do not were made, writes DAVE MOORE. produced prototypes. Bantam Bantams and Fords were sent to the dash and a hand brake on the accept multiple entries from the GM posts profit built its car within 49 days. Willys- Britain and Russia as part of the left side. Willys managed to same name, address or email Overland’s vice-president of lend-lease programme. In Britain, reduce the weight to a new army source, or those without a street ❯❯ General Motors has announced a he original Jeep’s off-road slog as at 80kmh on the engineering, Delmar G Roos, the Ford vehicle was popularly specification of 980kg, although address in the message area. Last first-quarter net income specification was drawn up open road. For ease of repair and designed the Willys Quad, and known as the ‘‘Blitz Buggy’’. items had to be removed to reach week’s answer was Suzuki RG500, attributable to common Tin July 1940, when the manufacture, the list also Ford developed its Model GP that goal. They were reinstalled and the winner was R Hayes. stockholders of about NZ$4 billion, United States Army let it be specified a simple, squared-off (General Purpose), known as the ith modifications and on the next-generation MB, or $2.25 per fully diluted share, known to 135 potential suppliers body design. Pygmy, which was powered by an improvements, the Willys resulting in a final weight about marking the company’s fifth that it needed a ‘‘light Blackout and driving lights adapted Ford/Ferguson tractor. Wbecame the MA, and later 180kg above the required consecutive profitable quarter. reconnaissance vehicle’’ to were required, as well as three Each company delivered its the MB, but everyone would specifications. Revenue increased $5.98b to $46b, assume duties previously bucket seats, but the most prototype to the army by late eventually come to know it as the Willys-Overland built 368,000 DRIVE INDEX compared with the first quarter of undertaken by modified cars and important part of the army’s (northern) summer 1940 and Jeep, some claiming that the vehicles, while Ford made about 2010. motorcycles. tender was the requirement for received approval to build 70 name came from the slurring of 277,000 units under licence for the Boats ...... E11 Among the requirements was all-wheel-drive and a high-low initial examples. the letters GP, for general US Army. The rugged Jeep would Caravans and Trailers ..... E11 Mapping a charge the need for a 272-kilogram load ratio transfer case. Although all three designs purpose, while others insist it was forever be known for helping win Cars for Sale ...... E1-E12 capacity, a rather optimistic gross Willys-Overland and the exceeded the maximum dry- tagged after ‘‘Eugene the Jeep’’ in a world war. Cars under $5000...... E2 ❯❯ When electric vehicles take hold, weight of less than 590kg a American Bantam Car weight requirement, the army the Popeye cartoon strip. Willys trademarked the Jeep Cars Wanted...... E11 users will be able to use Google no longer than 1900mm Manufacturing Company were took possession of the vehicles in Whatever the origin, the name name after the war and planned to Classic Cars ...... E2 Maps and their GPS systems to find and the ability to pass under a quick off the mark to accept the November that year, and in entered the wartime lexicon and turn the vehicle into a farm utility Commercial Vehicles...... E11 charging points. Google is already height restriction of 910mm. That challenge, while Ford entered March 1941, it commissioned even now it serves to some as a vehicle called the Universal Jeep. Motorcycles...... E11 working with the United States proviso was achieved by the use of some time later to make it a three- Bantam, Ford and Willys to each generic title for off-road vehicles, As we know now, that simple Motoring Parts...... E11 Energy Department on the project, a fold-down windscreen. way competition for the make a further 1500 units for although Chrysler Jeep is quick premise was somewhat overtaken Recreational Vehicles ...... E11 and it is expected that this will be The army also required a important government contract. additional testing. Ford started with its lawyers if it is used to by history and fashion with the repeated by energy authorities smooth, tractable as It was not lost on anyone that deliveries in April 1941, with specifically refer to a non-Jeep CJ-2A (Civilian Jeep) starting off around the world. comfortable coping with a 5kmh the US’s entry into World War II Bantam and Willys a few weeks product. the Jeep’s peacetime career.

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