While the Jeep wasn’t the first ‘4×4’ ever made, it certainly epitomizes running roughshod over mountainous terrains and, for many, has become the iconic representation of the 4×4 class as a whole. The lowercase use of the word ‘jeep’ has historically been used to broadly define any number of small, compact off-road vehicles made by the likes of Bantam, Willys, or Ford up to World War II, and is still used today as an across-the-board generic term. On the
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