I seem to recall that the name came from "General Purpose Passenger Vehicle" or GP or "jeep".
Kinda like the penetrating oil, WD-40, name came from "Water Dispersal formulation number 40". Godfrey On Nov 24, 2006, at 9:10 PM, Adam Maas wrote: > Part of the problem there is that Jeep should never have been a > brand in > the first place. In fact it originated as a WW1 term for an unproven > vehicle, although how it came to be applied to the 1/4 ton 4x4 > truck of > WW2 is speculation. > > Of course, the exact same thing has happened with Hummer (which > originated as military slang for a HMMWV). > > -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
